Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up.
Presents volume one of an eight-volume collection on regional cultures of America and examines the traditions and history of New England through thirteen topical essays on Native Americans, Puritan settlers, and other areas that define New England.
March Murray returns to her New England hometown with her teenage daughter, supposedly to attend the funeral of her old housekeeper, but in the back of her mind March knows she is headed for a reunion with Hollis, the boy she has loved since childhood.
Uses interviews, memoirs, radio conversations, and technical research to recreate the last days of the crew of the Andrea Gail, a fishing boat that was lost in a storm off the coast of Nova Scotia in October 1991.
The Farrells, an ordinary family living in an upper-class New England town, struggle to cope when eleven-year-old Amanda, a promising gymnast, is diagnosed with AIDS, the result of a blood transfusion five years earlier.
Nearing's testimonial to 53 years of marriage to her husband--who died at age 100--and the principles the couple stood for: self-sufficiency, generosity, social justice, and peace.
