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In "The Summer Book" Tove Jansson distills the essence of the
summer--its sunlight and storms--into twenty-two crystalline
vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a
six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother,
nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny
unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The grandmother is
unsentimental and wise, if a little cranky; Sophia is impetuous and
volatile, but she tends to her grandmother with the care of a new
parent. Together they amble over coastline and forest in easy
companionship, build boats from bark, create a miniature Venice,
write a fanciful study of local bugs. They discuss things that
matter to young and old alike: life, death, the nature of God and
of love. "On an island," thinks the grandmother, "everything is
complete." In "The Summer Book," Jansson creates her own complete
world, full of the varied joys and sorrows of life.
This brilliantly acclaimed novel tells the story of an expansive spirit locked in a pretty body and an impossible moment in history. As Versailles begins, fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette is traveling from Austria to France to meet her fiancé. He will become the sixteenth Louis to rule France, and Antoinette will be his queen-although neither shows a strong inclination toward power, politics, or the roles that they have been summoned to play. Antoinette finds herself hemmed in by towering hairdos, the xenophobic suspicion of her subjects, the misogyny of her detractors, and the manifold twists and turns of the palace she calls home. Versailles is an enchanting meditation on time and the soul's true journey within it, at once wittily entertaining and astonishingly wise.
In the summer of 1964, the Davis family left Japan after 14 years as missionaries there and, in a homemade camper-van, drove from Bombay, India to Southampton, England where they boarded the Queen Elizabeth to New York City. During the trip, Mrs. Davis kept a diary. Now, 50 years later, daughter Irene has added what she remembers of that summer. Travel along as this family encounters new adventures each day... some humorous, some inspiring, and some terrifying
Decades after delivering a baby boy, Joseph, who lived only three minutes, Kathryn Davi-Cardinale began receiving communications from her son, through what the author calls "inner dictation." She began documenting these messages as she received them over the course of many years. Her son urged her to share his words with everyone. In Joseph--My Son, My Guide, the author offers these dictations to readers in their original form. Taken individually and as a whole, Joseph's messages provide moving insights into the meaning of love, inner peace, and forgiveness. They serve also as a roadmap to discovering the purpose of life. This true story about an unusual mother-son relationship can transform the way we look at death and afterlife.
In a thin place, according to legend, the membrane separating this world from the spirit world is almost nonexistent. The small New England town of Varennes is such a place, and Kathryn Davis transports us there - revealing a surprising pageant of life as, in the course of one summer, Varennes' tranquillity is shattered by the arrival of a threatening outsider, worldly and otherworldly forces come into play, and a young local girl finds her miraculous gift for resurrecting the dead tested by the conflict between logic and wish.
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