by Peabody Institute Library | Mar 6, 2012 | Historical Fiction
Reviewed by Kim Tess Collins is a young aspiring dressmaker who is desperate to get on the Titanic in order to make her way to America where she’ll hopefully have better luck. Fortuitously she happens upon Lady Lucille Duff Gordon who herself is a famous...
by Peabody Institute Library | Feb 29, 2012 | Fiction, Staff Picks
“Rory Hendrix is the least likely of Girl Scouts. She hasn’t got a troop or even a badge to call her own. But she’s checked the Handbook out from the elementary school library so many times that her name fills all the lines on the card, and she pores over its...
by Peabody Institute Library | Feb 27, 2012 | The Literary World
Just in case you missed this wonderful Academy Award winning animated short: [youtube=”http://youtu.be/Adzywe9xeIU”]
by Peabody Institute Library | Feb 21, 2012 | The Literary World
First up, The Composites: “Images created using law enforcement composite sketch software and descriptions of literary characters…Read more on the project at The Atlantic.” The site is new, having launched earlier this month, and is currently taking...
by Peabody Institute Library | Feb 19, 2012 | Fiction, Staff Picks
Reviewed by Charlotte “When a tsunami rages through their coastal town in India, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sister Sita are left orphaned and homeless. With almost everyone they know suddenly erased from the face of the earth, the girls set out for...
