by Peabody Institute Library | Jun 16, 2011 | The Literary World
Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan. [via BuzzFeed] 8. Burroughs is a descendant of Edmund Rice — and is distantly related to Laura Ingalls Wilder and President Calvin Coolidge. “Rice was one of the original settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jun 13, 2011 | Fiction
Publisher’s Summary: “Three sips to mind the dead . . . Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the attention her grandmother Maylene bestowed upon the dead of Claysville, the small town where Bek spent her adolescence. There wasn’t a funeral that Maylene...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jun 7, 2011 | The Literary World
“The Cat Who …” books began with “The Cat Who Could Read Backwards,” published in 1966. They ended when Braun retired from writing in 2007 after the publication of “The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers.” Her books about Jim Qwilleran...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jun 6, 2011 | Non-fiction
Alice Ozma is the author of The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared. Publisher’s Summary: “When Alice Ozma was in 4th grade, she and her father decided to see if he could read aloud to her for 100 consecutive nights. On the hundreth night,...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jun 4, 2011 | Summer Reading, The Literary World
(CNN) — One of the best things about summer are the vacations (or staycations) that allow time for leisure reading. We’ve picked the bookish brains of editors from Entertainment Weekly, The Barnes & Noble Review and the social network site...
