homes and haunts

"In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two almost-grown children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey, where she finds herself grappling simultaneously with a mother slipping into severe dementia and a house that's been neglected of late. As Martha works to manage her mother's care and the sprawling, ramshackle property . . . she is pulled back into her childhood, almost against her will. Martha grew up at Omega Farm with her four sisters, five stepsiblings, mother, and stepfather, in a house filled with art, people, and the kind of chaos that was sometimes benevolent, sometimes more sinister. Caring for her mother and her children, struggling to mend the forest, the past relentlessly asserts itself--even as Martha's mother, the person she might share her memories with or even try to hold to account, no longer knows who Martha is"--Provided by publisher.

Harry Bernstein recounts his difficult childhood in Depression-era Chicago and New York, where his mother dreamed of a better life for her family.

Presents nineteenth-century American writer and social activist Henry David Thoreau's reflections upon living alone among nature for two years on Massachusetts' Walden Pond.

Autobiography covering the childhood of a woman who has been a professional dancer, actress, poet, journalist, and television producer.

The author recalls her life and impressions growing up in Cuba.

Describes the daily activities at Mount Vernon in October 1785 and the work of French artist Jean Antoine Houdon as he prepares to make a statue of George Washington--as seen through the eyes of a pet cat.

A graphic novel interpretation of Henry David Thoreau's "Walden," featuring the actual words from the text in which Thoreau describes his experiment in simple living.

Traces the history of Walden Pond, the Massachusetts pond made famous by Thoreau more than 150 years ago, detailing the geography of the pond, Thoreau's and Emerson's experiences of Walden over their lifetimes, the growth of the pond as a site of spiritual and literary pilgrimages, and the battle to protect the pond from developers.