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 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...
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...
