Boston needs water. The engineers know where to find it. But four towns stand in their way ... "I am entirely a creature of my life's sad events, committed to patience now, to endurance if nothing else. I am a part of my surroundings and they are all contained in me. Girl expecting the water." - Polly McPhee, Greenwich, Massachusetts, 1934 Swift River is the story of Polly McPhee, a native of Greenwich, a small central Massachusetts town condemned with three others in 1927 to create a permanent supply of clean water for the people of Boston. One of the most successful and cost-effective civil...
Boston needs water. The engineers know where to find it. But four towns stand in their way ... "I am entirely a creature of my life's sad events, comm...
The year is 1938. The Japanese army has occupied Nanking. Kuroda, a reluctant officer trained as a botanist, is left in charge of a garrison town. When he comes upon a starving, filthy Chinese refugee about to be raped by his soldiers, a common occurrence, he does the remarkable: he rescues her and gives her his protection. Li has no choice but to accept it; she becomes his servant, and an extraordinary intimacy ensues.
Psychologically taut, etched in spare, compelling prose, a deep yet dynamic novel of safety and risk, guilt and captivity, power and love.
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The year is 1938. The Japanese army has occupied Nanking. Kuroda, a reluctant officer trained as a botanist, is left in charge of a garrison town. ...
When Oscar Allen, an eight year-old Manhattan foundling and child of the streets, and Lillian Hanover, a newly-married Nebraska farm girl still mourning her own parents, are brought together by circumstance in the fall of 1922, they form a bond that neither could have imagined and neither will ever regret ... NATIVE CHILD is the extraordinary story of an unlikely family: one of the very last of 200,000 "orphan train" riders, sent west from New York by the Children's Aid Society at his own request, and the young couple from the small town of Spring Valley, Nebraska who impulsively take him in....
When Oscar Allen, an eight year-old Manhattan foundling and child of the streets, and Lillian Hanover, a newly-married Nebraska farm girl still mourni...
