Natalie Baron is a neglected teenager adrift in the world when she attaches herself to Barbara Hern and her family, followers of Envallism, an extreme Protestant sect. Their new relationship fulfills unmet needs for both women—and leads to a devastating series of events that forever changes the course of their lives. Years later, Natalie, now a well-respected academic, travels to Finland in an attempt to understand the origins of Envallism as well as her own past. The Story of My Face is both a gripping psychological thriller and the archaeology of an accident which shaped a life.

This picture book teaches young readers all about the many things their faces can do. Featuring vibrant images and simple, repetitive words and phrases, students will be eager to learn about the wonderful things their faces can do: smelling, smiling, eating, listening, and even making funny faces.

Marshall Saunders' book, "Pussy Black-Face; Or, The Story of a Kitten and Her Friends", is a charming and heartwarming tale that revolves around the adventures of a little kitten named Pussy Black-Face and her various animal companions. The book is written in a captivating and engaging narrative style that appeals to both children and adults alike. Through the interactions and experiences of the characters, Saunders explores themes of friendship, loyalty, and the importance of compassion towards all living beings. The vivid descriptions and character development in the book create a vivid and enchanting world for readers to explore.

A riveting novel that takes place in one day about an elderly painter and the New Yorker interviewing her—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. “A brief novel of deep feeling.”—Time On a day that contains much conversation and some rain, the seventy-eight-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the course of her eventful life has been Hope Ouderkirk, Hope McCoy, and Hope Holloway, answers questions put to her by a New York interviewer named Kathryn, and recapitulates, through the story of her own career, the triumphant, poignant saga of postwar American art. In the evolving relation between the two women, the interviewer and interviewee move in and out of the roles of daughter and mother, therapist and patient, predator and prey, supplicant and idol. The scene is central Vermont; the time is the early spring of 2001.