by Peabody Institute Library | Jun 20, 2011 | Fiction
Just in time for your summer road trip is this “tricked out” version of Kerouac’s classic. With lots of added features including: family photos documentary footage journal excerpts an interactive map
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 | May 23, 2011 | Fiction
Publisher’s Summary: “The Harrow School is home to privileged adolescents known as much for their distinctive dress and traditions as for their arrogance and schoolboy cruelty. Seventeen-year-old American Andrew Taylor is enrolled at the esteemed British...
by Peabody Institute Library | May 17, 2011 | Fiction, Historical Fiction
Publisher’s Summary: “An invalid for most her life, Alice James is quite used to people underestimating her. And she generally doesn’t mind. But this time she is not about to let things alone. Yes, her brother Henry may be a famous author, and her...
by Peabody Institute Library | Apr 26, 2011 | Fiction, Historical Fiction
If you are a fan of writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Isabelle Allende, you may want to pick up a copy of The Invisible Mountain. In her debut novel, Carolina De Robertis tells the story of three generations of a family in Uruguay. Ignazio fled Venice and his...
by Peabody Institute Library | Apr 13, 2011 | Fiction
Hoffman’s latest novel looks at the history of Blackwell, a fictional town in western Massachusetts. Blackwell was founded by a con artist short on survival skills and his young immigrant wife who was the true pioneer. Each chapter explores a different...
