by jim newell | Apr 1, 2013 | Not Bee Rated
FROM AMAZON: Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters was playing cards in Boston’s North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said...
by jim newell | Apr 1, 2013 | Not Bee Rated
FROM AMAZON: When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family. Orphaned while onboard ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the...
by jim newell | Apr 1, 2013 | Not Bee Rated
A heartbreaking story. FROM AMAZON: After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat...