and passages from authors
highlighting the key moments and places throughout her life that helped define her
In moments that are tender
her parents and twelve siblings fall under a strange sleeping sickness
momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler
The Watery Part of the World a hamish macbeth mystery and passages from authorsMichael Parkers vast and involving novel about pirates and slaves, treason and treasures, madness and devotion, takes place on a tiny island battered by storms and cut off from the world. Inspired by two little known moments in history, it begins in 1813, when Theodosia Burr, en route to New York by ship to meet her father, Aaron Burr, disappears off the coast of North Carolina. It ends a hundred and fifty years later, when the last three inhabitants