by Peabody Institute Library | Jul 22, 2011 | Fiction
Reviewed by Kim Grad student Zack Kashian lapses into a coma after a terrible biking accident on an icy Boston street. Three months later he awakens on Easter, muttering the Lord’s Prayer in the original Aramaic. The media, and religious fanatics flock to his...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jul 20, 2011 | The Literary World
Tattoos that imprint favorite poems or bookish quotes on the skin fascinate me. Some, like the one above, take it to a whole new, imaginative level. Check out more literary tattoos on Contrariwise and The Word Made Flesh, an extension of the book featured below....
by Peabody Institute Library | Jul 18, 2011 | Books to Movies, Mystery
The next film in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes franchise, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, won’t be released in theaters until this December. Who wants to wait that long to engage in some Sherlock and Watson good times? To tide you over, why not try one...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jul 15, 2011 | Patron Recommendations
Publisher’s Summary: “One of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West. She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in The Good Earth, an overnight worldwide bestseller...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jul 12, 2011 | Fiction
13-year-old Petra is in love with David Cassidy, an obsession she shares with her best friends. The year is 1974, and Cassidy is the creation of a brilliant marketing campaign that preys on the hearts of teenage girls. Fast forward 25 years. Petra, separated from a...
