by Peabody Institute Library | Jul 24, 2011 | Patron Recommendations
Publisher’s Summary: “When the Templeton family takes up residence in an imposing and long-empty manor in the countryside of Victoria, Australia, the locals begin to buzz with gossip. The seven Templetons moved from England and seem unusual, peculiar...
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...
