This is a book with all the color and rhythm of the seasons of New England. Timeless and yet personal, universal and yet so local you recognize your neighbors, can count the logs in their woodpile, smell the smoke from chimneys on a sunny cold autumn day and savor the taste of last summer’s raspberries.
This wonderful book is a moving photographic record and memoir of a mother-daughter relationship in the light of an enduring disability from birth through adolescence.
With humor, compassion and an incredible gift for storytelling, she takes the reader on a journey, from the first life-and-death struggle to get the starving pup to feed, to the unexpected dilemma of what to do with a baby seal who adapts so well to a life with humans.
Walter Paine’s Cousin John: the Story of a Boy and a Small Smart Pig takes young readers to a time when dogs roamed unleashed and ice was delivered in blocks by beefy men with iron tongs.
Metz describes learning the harrowing ABCs of “a weapons-grade jackhammer”, the “precise choreographies” of a majestic D-8 Caterpillar, and the euphoria induced whilst performing acrobatic feats of carpentry on rickety ladders.
For most of her long life Floy Morway, begged, borrowed, saved, and even stole cats to save them from abuse, abandonment, and worse. Over 40 years ago she founded Adopt-a-Cat, an organization which has now saved thousands of feline lives.
Filled with tales of seafaring adventures, Captain William “Bill” Pinkney’s exciting memoir follows the author around the world in his prized vessel, Commitment.