BELOVED BOOKS

Daphne Du Maurier | THE APPLE TREE 1952. Contains a short novel & 5 stories including the classic "The Birds."

A realistic and emotional look at a woman who falls into the grips of insanity written by the iconic American writer Sylvia Plath“It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath’s voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal.” — USA Today The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful,…

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl''s memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it…

The beautiful story of a mouse and a princess named Pea.

"The Arrival" by Shaun Tan is a wordless graphic novel. The story portrayed by the detailed, imaginative, and emotional illustrations is the experience of immigrants journeying to a new land.

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Product Details ISBN-13:9780393310399Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. Publication date:09/28/1993Edition description:REVPages:96Sales rank:495,775Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.40(d)

"Did you read Beryl Markham's book, West with the Night? I knew her fairly well in Africa and never would have suspected that she could and would put pen to paper except to write in her flyer's log book. As it is, she has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an okay pig pen." - Ernest Hemingway

Italian artist Alessandro Sanna presents the four seasons in stunning watercolor. A gorgeous and thoughtful reminder that time flows like a river.

Lucky Pocket, 1951, by F. Dorothy Wood... A Whitman Cozy Corner Book. This was one of the few English language books we had at my grandmother's house.

Yes, I adore this novel. Yes, I know you probably don't adore this novel.

The character, Rhoda Manning, has appeared in nearly all of Ellen Gilchrist's books. This is a collection of stories devoted purely to bawdy and outspoken Rhoda who is described as being “stuffed with cookies and ice cream and cigarettes and rage.”

One of my most favorite books by one of my most favorite authors.

On the Shortness of Life by Seneca - Penguin Books Ltd - ISBN 10 014101881X - ISBN 13 014101881X - Timeless advice on the art of living…

I'll take Mr. Thornton over Mr. Darcy, please.