Robert Goddard - Hand In Glove Tristram Abberley was an English poet of the 1930s whose reputation was sealed when he died fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Nearly fifty years later his sister Beatrix is murdered during what appears to be a robbery at her home, but robbery - it transpires - is only part of the motive that underlies her death.
In this acclaimed bestseller, President Carter returns to his early years in Plains, Georgia, the same locale that enchanted readers of An Hour Before Daylight, which The New Yorker called "an American classic." He remembers the Christmas days of his boyhood and later years, re-creating here the simplicity of community and celebration with family and friends.
This book explores modern literature's responses to the tragic. It examines writers from the latter half of the nineteenth century through to the later twentieth century who respond to ideas about tragedy.
Reading level: Ages 4-8 In April 1607, a group of English colonists landed in North America on what would become Virginia. These settlers included many wealthy gentlemen, along with bricklayers, carpenters, a barber, a tailor, a surgeon, and four boys. John Smith, a soldier, rounded out the group. Years later, John Smith wrote about his experiences in Jamestown. He mentioned 12-year-old Sam Collier.
Fired from a top-secret Soviet nuclear base in the chaotic last days of the communist regime, a KGB security man steals a suitcase bomb, smuggles it out and buries it in his backyard. Sixteen years later he's going to put it on the market. It's as lethal as on the day it was manufactured - capable of effectively wiping out a major city.
