It's interesting to read "Carter Finally Gets It" and "Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn" within the same time span. Both novels attempt to get inside the mind of a teenage boy and find out what makes him tick. I imagine this is a valid concern for many teenage girls, trying to figure out what ...
- Psalms 127:3 A group of the family was singing songs in the next room, snow was falling outside, and Gabe was sitting next to his wife and his new child. Katie held a tiny girl in her arms. She had just been born a month early, on the day after Christmas. Katie’s hair ...
OLGA NIKOLAEVNA April–May 1918 Tobolsk “The train was rerouted at Omsk,” Officer Matveev explains. He has come all the way back from Ekaterinburg to tell us the news about Papa, Mama, and Maria. “I believe Yakovlev intended to deliver them to Moscow, but your family is now under the jurisdiction ...
It was a house party on Cape Cod, at this girl Fiona Winchester’s house. Fiona was one of Cullen’s little playthings for a while. At any rate, Gideon and Pilar had snuggled in a big chair and then slept in the same bed in a beautiful room overlooking the ocean. Nothing had happened, unless you co...
—ANNE SULLIVAN TO SOPHIA HOPKINS, MARCH 1887 The morning starts like any other. Helen washes and dresses herself as I’ve taught her, but it falls to me to brush her hair. The brush is something she tolerates only because it’s a point I refuse to compromise. The change begins with a ribbon, a leng...