Disfigured by the blow of an abusive husband, the widow Mary McAllister has spent almost sixty years secluded in a white marble mansion overlooking the town of Mill River, Vermont. Her links to the outside world are few: the...
What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found...
Chocolate Worth Dying For–Maxine is the brand new owner of a chocolate shop and catering business ‘Au Chocolat’. She figures with a lot of hard work and a little luck she’ll be able to make her dream a reality....
When journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, he has no idea that his own affinity for simple, declarative sentences will change his life radically overnight. So begins William Kennedy’s latest...
Taylor Greer moves from her home state of Kentucky in the hope of avoiding the fate of her contemporaries. As soon as she can, she buys a car and en route “out of Kentucky” she is handed a baby...
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