Excellent, comprehensive history of handwriting with plenty of images. There was a terrible formatting issue in my library copy that left several pages totally incomprehensible, and fouled up quite a few footnotes. To the point where it was hugely distracting and I almost abandoned the book. The ...
A chance encounter on a train leads painter Christine Ward to wonder whether Orin Pierce, her beloved college friend, believed dead for some twenty years, may actually be alive. As she begins to track down the man she believes might be Pierce, she finds herself in the grip of a past she had thoug...
When Dorrie, a potter, becomes the guardian of her uncommunicative teenage nephew Hugo, her life changes radically. (Nancy Pearl)
A novel of wit, power, and grace that follows a family's secrets and dreams through the voices of four generations of women.
It was only one subway stop across the river from Manhattan, and Gene Rae said the neighborhood was cheap and eccentric and full of artists and other interesting people. So it proved to be: Williamsburg was an urban wilderness of warehouses and factories, desolate streets, and crumbling, asphalt-...
Until then, the semester had gone quietly enough. Betsy had settled into pregnancy as into a comfortable garment, and ever since the baby had begun to kick she had lost that dazed feeling the book had warned her about, of being a cow in a pasture, or a madonna in a frame. It was as if the baby ki...