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  Sowing Seeds in Danny

  Nellie L. McClung

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  The Watsons are poor, the town is small, and Pearl Watson, aged twelve, has opinions about all of it — while the doctor drinks, the rich woman condescends, and a baby called Danny is raised by committee. McClung wrote comic prairie novels and used the fame to win women the vote in Manitoba; she was one of the Famous Five who took the question of whether women were persons to the Privy Council, and won.

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  Fair Exchange and No Robbery

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

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  Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.
  Fair Exchange and No Robbery: Katherine Rangely was packing up. Her chum and roommate, Edith Wilmer, was sitting on the bed watching her in that calm disinterested fashion peculiarly maddening to a bewildered packer.

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  The Scarlet Pimpernel

  Baroness Orczy

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  'When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives as best they may?'
  
  'When your ladyship has ceased to be the most admired woman in Europe, namely, when I am in my grave.'
  
  The first novel in Baroness Orczy's brilliantly entertaining historical fiction series, The Scarlet Pimpernel is a thrilling tale of courage, justice and feigned identities.
  
  It is 1792, and the ruthless Reign of Terror during the French Revolution is in full swing: waves of aristocrats are being ordered to be executed daily, and the fear of bloody massacres is at an all-time high. Enter eccentric English dandy, Sir Percy Blakeney, who is far more than what meets the eye. Under the guise of his alter-ego – the quick-thinking, masterful swordsman, the Scarlet Pimpernel – Blakeney has made it his duty to free the incarcerated from their guillotined fate. His identity is a thoroughly protected secret, but with the French authorities hot on his tail, Blakeney needs to tread more carefully than ever… A thrilling, action-packed narrative, The Scarlet Pimpernel was adapted into one of the most popular stage shows in London in the early twentieth century. Today, it remains a cornerstone of adventure fiction.
  Baroness Orczy (1865 – 1947) was a British novelist and dramatist. Born in Hungary, Orczy moved to London with her family as a teenager, where she studied art. Although she didn't turn her hand to fiction until her thirties, she was a prolific writer, most famous for her series of novels featuring the foppish but courageous Englishman, Sir Percy Blakeney.

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  Midsummer Dreams (Symphony in...

  John Gould Fletcher

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  John Gould Fletcher was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on 3rd January 1886 to a socially prominent family.  
  He was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover before advancing to Harvard University which he attended from 1903 to 1907, before dropping out after his father's death. 
  As a young man Fletcher spent many years in England where he became part of the influential Imagist group of poets together with Amy Lowell and Ezra Pound.   
  His first marriage came from a resumed relationship with the now married Florence Emily ‘Daisy’ Arbuthnot. Her adultery with Fletcher was the grounds for her divorce from Malcolm Arbuthnot.  They married on 5th July 1916 but later divorced.  
  Fletcher first published in 1912, with ‘The Dominant City’ too much praise and admiration and followed this with other well-regarded volumes such as ‘Irradiations: Sand and Spray’, and ‘Goblins and Pagodas’. 
  In the late 1920s and 1930s Fletcher became increasingly active with a group of Southern writers and poets known as the Southern Agrarians. They published the classic ‘I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition’. 
  Although he was highly regarded as a poet he was not very prolific.  However, such was the undoubted quality that in 1939 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his work ‘Selected Poems’.  He was the first poet from the south to receive such an accolade.  Fletcher’s other passion and pursuit was as an authority on modern painting, a subject on which he also published. 
  A second marriage followed in 1936 to the children’s author, Charlie May Simon. They built ‘Johnswood’, a residence on the bluffs of the Arkansas River and travelled frequently to New York for shots of modern culture and intellectual stimulation as well as to the American West and South for the climate after Fletcher developed chronic arthritis. 
  In 1937 he wrote his autobiography, ‘Life is My Song’. 
  His developing passion for his roots and background resulted in the writing of a history of his State and published in 1947; ‘Arkansas’. 
  By now Fletcher was suffering from bouts of depression and on 10th May 1950, he committed suicide by drowning himself in a pond near his home in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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  Father Goriot

  Honoré de Balzac

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  In a shabby Paris boarding house, an old vermicelli merchant sells his last silver to keep two daughters in gowns they will not thank him for, and a law student decides which way he intends to climb. Balzac worked nights on fifty cups of coffee a day and died at fifty-one; this is the novel where his Human Comedy locks together, and where Vautrin explains, at length, exactly how the world is run.

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  The Land of Sweet Forever -...

  Harper Lee

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  Read by Ellen Burstyn 
  “Harper Lee’s wry humor is on ample display. . . . Each story illuminates Lee’s quintessential talents as the ‘balladeer of small-town culture’ and the chronicler of city life. . . . The Land of Sweet Forever reinforces Lee’s indelible voice, contributing a rewarding addition and resource to the slim canon of her literary legacy.” –Los  Angeles Times 
  From one of America’s most beloved authors, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays, offering a fresh perspective on the remarkable literary mind of Harper Lee. This special compendium includes an introduction by Casey Cep—Lee’s appointed biographer—that provides illuminating background for our reading of these stories and connects them both to Lee’s life and to her two novels, To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman. 
  Harper Lee remains a landmark figure in the American canon—thanks to Scout, Jem, Atticus, and the other indelible characters in her Pulitzer-winning debut, To Kill a Mockingbird; as well as for the darker, late-’50s version of small-town Alabama that emerged in Go Set a Watchman, published in 2015 after its rediscovery. Less remembered, until now, however, is Harper Lee the dogged young writer, who crafted stories in hopes of magazine publication; Lee the lively New Yorker, Alabamian, and friend to Truman Capote; and the Lee who peppered the pages of McCall’s and Vogue with thoughtful essays in the latter part of the twentieth century. 
  The Land of Sweet Forever combines Lee’s early short fiction and later nonfiction in a volume offering an unprecedented look at the development of her inimitable voice. Covering territory from the Alabama schoolyards of Lee’s youth to the luncheonettes and movie houses of midcentury Manhattan, The Land of Sweet Forever invites still-vital conversations about politics, equality, travel, love, fiction, art, the American South, and what it means to lead an engaged and creative life.

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