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Catherine,the daughter of a once-brilliant mathematician, is at the center of this play. Caring for her aging father, Catherine is at once attracted and repelled by her father's genius. She is torn between returning to New York with her sister, and helping an old student of her father salvage something meaningful from the stacks of notes her father kept. Falling in love with this student, Catherine learns how much she and her father may have in common. This play won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for drama and a 2001 Tony Award for best play.
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The narrator of this literary mystery is a man named Thomas Shield, who teaches at a school in London. One of his pupils is the young American Edgar Allan Poe, who is living in England with his foster parents after the death (or mysterious disappearance) of his own. When the father of Edgar's good friend, Charles Frant, is murdered, Shield accompanies the lad back to London as his tutor, living in the household of a banker friend of the Frants, where young Charlie's beautiful sister is also living. Gradually, Shield is drawn into solving a mystery: is Frant really dead? And will there be another murder? And what might Poe's missing father have to do with it all?
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The six members--five women and a man--of the eponymous book club include Sylvia, whose husband has just left her; Allegra, her adventurous lesbian artist daughter; multi-married Bernadette; and Grigg, who actually prefers science fiction. As the book club meets to discuss Austen's six incomparable novels, they also find themselves bonding over other, more personal, issues--and finding also that sometimes life and literature intertwine. The author, Karen Joy Fowler, has said in an interview that the best part of writing her own book was the necessity of re-reading those of Jane Austen, which she terms--and quite rightly--devastatingly witty. A New York Times Notable Book for 2004.
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The first volume in the Great Brain series. John D. Fitzgerald, aged eight, idolizes his older brother, Tom, aged ten. In their small, mostly Mormon town of Adenville, Utah, Tom, alias The Great Brain, is notorious for putting all situations to his--mostly financial--advantage. J.D. is constantly the dupe in The Great Brain's masterful plans, but his adoration of his brother outweighs the insult. Together the two boys and their older brother, Sweyn, live a life filled with mischievous schemes and never a dull moment.
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In this, the third and final volume in Baxter's saga following the adventures of a family of mammoths--the large, prehistoric creatures from which elephants have descended--struggling to survive in a rapidly changing world, Icebones finds herself waking on Mars and, along with the rest of her species, must confront a new set of survival problems.
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