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![]() ![]() No active discussions on Stevenson found. ![]() Recent Forum Posts on Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Sidney Colvin, it is with pride that I sign myself affectionately yours,įan of this book? Help us introduce it to others by writing a better introduction for it. ![]() Of what shallĪ man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends? And so, my dear Yet though the letter is directed to all, we have an oldĪnd kindly custom of addressing it on the outside to one. The public is but a generous patron who defrays Messages, assurances of love, and expressions of gratitude, dropped for They alone take his meaning they find private We are alone, we are only nearer to the absent.Įvery book is, in an intimate sense, a circular letter to the friends of They keep us worthy of ourselves and when Wilderness of this world-all, too, travellers with a donkey: and theīest that we find in our travels is an honest friend. But we are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to The journey which this little book is to describe was very agreeable andįortunate for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() This novel is long researched and deeply felt by a writer whose ancestors were enslaved, shows the human race at its worst and at its best, and portrays women of true wit and grit.īook discussions will take place online! Contact the Topeka & Shawnee Public Library to join the conversation. Nevertheless, Cora possesses the intelligence and tenacity of her grandmother and mother and flees the unrelenting brutality and cruelty of the plantation to thread her way through swamp, sickness, and harrowing journey on the underground railroad in search of freedom. It's hard to imagine a more daunting struggle for life and sanity than what young Cora faces as the novel's protagonist as a third-generation slave on a Georgia plantation. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share. Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, 1515 SW 10th Ave, Topekaįrom the TALK series, Wit and Grit: Women Characters in Contemporary Fiction ![]() ![]() So, how on earth do I manage to read anything? Well, my peak months of activities are October-December and the month of May. I mean, they burn bright from sun up 'till sun down and that's just how I like it. Here's the deal, I have HIGH OCTANE children. Library every Monday (our attempt to pretend that we try and keep a little routine).Bring on all the outdoor activities! Outside = Worn Out Children.Lunch time will be labeled fen-for-ya aka fend for yourself.If you swim all day, it counts as a shower. ![]() Don't enter my bedroom before 8:30am telling me you are hungry.It's finally here, SUMMER! I get a break from the academic duties of raising kids! We will officially enter the routine of: ![]() ![]() ![]() Halldorr finds himself in the renowned Norse city of Dyflin, defending a king long past his prime. Jason Born's ill-fated hero, Halldorr, returns in this fifth stunning installment of The Norseman Chronicles. Oath sworn men, golden Valkyries, and a grinding siege all have roles to play in deciding the fate of a kingdom. ![]() And just when Halldorr begins to curse it all, a dirty sea king arrives on the scene and inspires him and a city to greatness.Norseman's Oath is a magnificent tale, immersing the reader in a world of thrilling battle, vivid characters, Viking wit, and grand adventure. Ireland's High King Sechnaill gambles for power. The half-brother princes, Iron Knee and Silkbeard, each have something to prove. Everyone, Norse and Irish alike, desires to have a hand in running their own kingdom and the crumbling House of Kvaran. ![]() The truth hidden beneath the politics of Ireland is more sinister. The timber walls of King Kvaran's prosperous city appear promising at first. They remain banished from the icy fjords of home and so must serve wherever a sword is needed. ![]() Chaos mounts.The year is 989 A.D., two years after Halldorr and his fellow Greenlanders limped away from the massacre at Dunadd. ![]() |