homes and haunts

Presents portraits of various post-World War II writers based in Paris, focusing on the stories of Richard Wright, the African-American author who left the United States in search of freedom, and Maurice Girodias, founder of the Olympia Press.

The author describes her life on a coffee plantation in Kenya for seventeen years before returning to Denmark in 1931 to write.

Describes the day-to-day practices and experiences for people of all social classes in fourteenth and fifteenth-century England, and discusses topics such as schooling, family life, material culture, cuisine, and entertainment.

Presents volume one of the author's first-hand account of the joys and oddities of life in Provence, France, where he and his wife are fulfilling their dream of living in a restored farmhouse in the countryside.

The author presents eight short stories about his mother and other family members as they grew up in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina.

Describes the buildings and fields of the Virginia plantation Monticello and Thomas Jefferson's life there, discussing such topics as his library and his agricultural experiments.

A collection of the rediscovered writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

A series of prose poems describes the author's life while she was growing up in Houston, Texas, from her eleventh birthday in 1965 through her eighteenth in 1972, and beyond.

For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life possible. Includes an account of the author's first Iditarod, a dogsled race across Alaska.

Tomie celebrates his sixth birthday as he starts first grade and enjoys a variety of new experiences.