![]() ![]() Clem left to go and inspect their land, but he came back dead, thrown from his horse. She and her husband Clem were on the last leg of a journey west. Martha (Marty) Claridge has just been widowed. ![]() We already have several copies on the shelves, so I decided to take this one home and see if the magic was still there. ![]() A few weeks ago someone donated a copy of it to our library. It seemed a lovely way to pass a Sunday afternoon. I found it crammed in the shelves next to my Grandma’s tattered Bible and her frayed, sunbleached copy of Crowning Glory Hymnal. I read this book over and over when I was oh, maybe 12 years old. A simple, sweet prairie story by a Canadian author, it nevertheless became a word-of-mouth bestseller, and the Christian fiction market has never been the same since. If Kathleen Woodiwiss’ The Flame and the Flower changed the romance fiction market forever in 1972, in 1979 Love Comes Softly did something of the same thing for the Christian romance market which had been stagnating since the death of Grace Livingston Hill in 1947. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings. ![]() When the beautiful, charismatic Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at the prison, Eileen is enchanted and unable to resist what appears to be a miraculously budding friendship. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a handsome prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father's messes. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Times The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's carer in his squalid home and her day job as a secretary at the boys' prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. A taut psychological thriller, rippled with comedy as black as a raven's wing, Eileen is effortlessly stylish and compelling. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stunningly illustrated by Caldecott Honoree and Coretta Scott King Award winner Ekua Holmes, Black Is a Rainbow Color is a sweeping celebration told through debut author Angela Joy’s rhythmically captivating and unforgettable words. A young black child ponders the colors in the rainbow and a crayon box and realizes that while black is not a color in the rainbow. The text is lyrical (Black are the bottoms of summertime feet, Black is the power of movement in pain.) and gorgeously rich with. launching a great exploration into this dynamic slice of American life and all the complexities that go with it. And there’s no BLACK in rainbows. As Joy intended, Black is a Rainbow Color is the perfect point of departure. ![]() It is a color to simply describe some of our favorite things, but it also evokes a deeper sentiment about the incredible people who helped change the world and a community that continues to grow and thrive. A child reflects on the meaning of being Black in this moving and powerful anthem about a people, a culture, a history, and a legacy that lives on.Red is a rainbow color.Green sits next to blue.Yellow, orange, violet, indigo, They are rainbow colors, too, butMy color is black. A child reflects on the meaning of being Black in this moving and powerful anthem about a people, a culture, a history, and a legacy that lives on.įrom the wheels of a bicycle to the robe on Thurgood Marshall’s back, Black surrounds our lives. ![]() |