Maddie Chester is determined to leave her hometown of Gansett Island, a place that has brought her only bad memories and ugly rumors. Then she’s knocked off her bike on the way to her housekeeping job...
Life of a Poet is devoted to the careful reenactment of the difficult relationship between Rilke's life and his art. In this outstanding biography, Ralph Freedman traces Rilke's extraordinary career b...
Marie Curie tells the story of the discoverer of radium, from her childhoodin Warsaw, to her experiments with radioactivity in Paris, to herrecognition as one of the preeminent scientists of her time....