When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was 20 and he was 40. Gibbons provides a convincing portrait of two seemingly ill-matched people who somehow miraculously make a… Continue ReadingPosted in:American Fiction, Marriage, Southern States
The story of a teenage girl who sees a vision of the Virgin Mary. Ann Holmes seems an unlikely candidate for revelation. A sixteen-year-old runaway, she is an itinerant mushroom… Continue ReadingPosted in:Fiction, Spiritual Life, Washington (State)
Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen and held… Continue ReadingPosted in:Autobiography, Lebanon Beirut, Terrorism
Rising From The Mist in the sun-blushed hills of Tuscany is Il Piccolo Rustico, a 300-year-old stone farmhouse that Nancy Doran dreams of lovingly restoring into an idlyllic home. All… Continue ReadingPosted in:1944, Doran, Phil, Travel
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