Describes the autumn activities and traditions that November's cooling temperatures bring.

"Published when Josephine Johnson was only twenty-four years old, Now in November made Johnson the youngest ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1935. It is a beautifully told account of one farming family's challenges to scrape by and earn a living from mortgaged land over the course of a single year, narrated by one of three sisters-the introspective and thoughtful Margaret. As the household is ravaged by Depression-era hardship and the environmental...

A novel of love, friendship, and self-reinvention: “I can’t remember the last time I was so enchanted . . . zany, surprising, full of twists and turns” (Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle and Something Blue).
 
A translator of Icelandic, the unnamed young woman who narrates Butterflies in November is perhaps more at home in the world of language than the actual world....

I loved this book. I could relate to everything that Leo endured. The pain, the joy, and putting your life on edge for that chance to find true love. A great read, despite the tears streaming down my face. Michele Russell, 5* 'Romantic, funny, confronting. An addictive story to the end.' Shannon M Marshall, Your Editing Stylists, 5* 'Leo's heart rolls from one potential car wreck to another. You want to close your eyes, but you just keep reading.'...

An affectionate and funny story set in the "black quarter" of a Southern sugar cane plantation in the 1940's and told by a child named Eddie, who watches his mother leave his father over his preoccupation with his car, which his father ultimately burns to the ground on the advice of a voodoo woman to get his wife back.

Martin finds a new lead in the search for his daughter and ventures west as the Berlin Wall falls.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The day we left for Texas began like every other presidential trip. People were hustling to get last-minute changes to speeches typed. The president and first lady's schedules were planned to the minute. The trip was important politically, but Mrs. Kennedy was also eager to make a good impression. #2 The buzzer system sounded three times, indicating the president...

In November, 1950, the United States Army suffered one of its most devastating defeats ever, in the frozen mountains of North Korea at the hands of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. This defeat fundamentally changed the nature of the Korean War, from a near-certain United Nations victory into a fight for its very survival. It was, however, avoidable. This Chinese victory was partially the result of one of the most glaring failures in U.S. military...

Examines the events that led to and eventually touched off the Russian Revolution of 1917.