This is sort of a hit-or-miss series. I find it hard to believe that a two-year community college would have dormitories. But what do I know? Maybe the one I went to was just an anomaly. Wait has a knack of making all of her characters likeable, even the villain. I especially enjoyed the portraya...
The previous book had a lot of slightly out-of-place lectures on prints in American history and culture. This book serves up a dose of the realities of adoption, particularly adopting older children and children of different (and/or mixed) races or ethnicities. But in this case, it fit much bette...
Ignorance is bliss for Maggie Summer, proprietor of Shadow Antiques, when she arrives at the prestigious Rensselaer County Spring Antiques Fair. She won't remain ignorant of the suspicious mortality rate among fellow antiques dealers. With its riveting behind-the-scenes glimpse of antiques show...
Giles was bustling around the Mansion House kitchen, flour on her apron and hands, while tantalizing smells rose from the covered platters she was handing to Abby Tarbox and Rose Chambers, who were serving midday dinner to customers in the dining room. “Joe Wood, whatever are you doing in my kitc...
—The Ladies’ Work-Table Book, 1845 Ethan Trask sat at the head of our kitchen table. He looked serious, even for a Maine State Trooper. “Coffee?” The new electric coffeemaker I’d bought was now plugged in on the kitchen counter. It was the shiniest appliance in the room. He shook his head. “I h...
From Half Hour with the Stars by Richard A Proctor, 1887. Lithograph showing round dark blue sky with Milky Way and constellations for certain fall dates in the Northern Hemisphere. For October 22, the time is 8:00 P.M. Stars of different magnitudes are shown with different numbers of points. One...
Black-and-white wood engraving by Thomas Nast (1840–1902) for cover of Harper’s Weekly, January 4, 1879 showing a young boy with his dog in a snowstorm, putting an envelope addressed to “St. Claus, North Pole” into a United States post box. A toy store with a Christmas tree in front of it is in t...
—Sampler stitched by Mary Chase (1816–1832), Augusta, Maine, 1827 At three-thirty, Patrick and a few of the other men helping with the sale walked through Aurora, checked to make sure everyone was out, locked its doors, and announced that the gates would be closing at four o’clock. Everyo...
From the eleventh to the fifteenth century the best needlework of every kind was produced by the Nuns, who imparted their knowledge to the high born ladies who were educated in their convents, and from this circumstance each variety, besides being distinguished by a particular name, was classed u...