It was impossible to hide in the Maine woods during the 1970s, especially when your humble homestead was between back-to-the-land gurus Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of "Living the Good Life" on one side, and the young organic gardener Eliot Coleman, author of "Four Season Harvest" and "The New Organic Grower" on the other.Updated a decade after its original publication, this memoir by Jean Hay Bright chronicles the years in the 1970s when the author and her first husband, a tra...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, an autobiographical novel of the main character.As an 1800s English work, David Copperfield shows how power leads to corruption, a still-relevant theme today. Moreover, the novel draws from several of Charles Dickens’s own personal experiences and demonstrates the harsh life caused by greed along with the hope that is born from love. This Bright Notes Study Guide...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield, an autobiographical novel of the main character.As an 1800s English work, David Copperfield shows how power leads to corruption, a still-relevant theme today. Moreover, the novel draws from several of Charles Dickens’s own personal experiences and demonstrates the harsh life caused by greed along with the hope that is born from love. This Bright Notes Study Guide...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, a leading figure in transcendentalism.As a transcendentalist of the nineteenth-century, Thoreau's work reflected his belief in the correspondence between Man and Nature. Moreover, his anti-materialistic ideology was influential in Western philosophy. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Thoreau's classi...

THE NIGHT THE MOUNTAIN CHANGED Children of the Bright One — Book OneSome boys just grow up. Mark Asbury grew hooves.On a cold Christmas in the high country of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, a comet the mountain folk call the Bright One passes close and quiet over the ridgelines — and thirteen-year-old Mark Asbury goes to bed an ordinary mountain kid and wakes under a strange light as something the world has no word for yet. A black draf...

Can one girl stop a killer?The future of Japan hangs in the balance, and it's up to a girl who likes to climb to save the dayTwo armies have descended on the Full Moon, and the war that has torn Japan apart for over a century threatens to destroy Lady Chiyome's school for young shrine maidens (and assassins).In this thrilling sequel to Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale, Risuko must face warlords, samurai, angry cooks, a monster in the hills, the truth...

"A gorgeous-and sexy-evocation of lost love, youthful longing, and the way that time folds and expands many times during a life . . . Bright Monday is utterly delicious." -Lauren GroffThe story of a 1990s romance between two men rekindled decades later in Milan-from two-time PEN/Faulkner finalist David Leavitt, “a phenomenal and prescient writer” (Justin Torres).Adam is translating into English his Italian friend Valeria's new nove...

"A gorgeous—and sexy—evocation of lost love, youthful longing, and the way that time folds and expands many times during a life . . . Bright Monday is utterly delicious." —Lauren GroffThe story of a 1990s romance between two men rekindled decades later in Milan—from two-time PEN/Faulkner finalist David Leavitt, “a phenomenal and prescient writer” (Justin Torres).Adam is translating into English his Italian friend Valeria’s new nove...

Strange visitors throw a planet of refugees into chaos in this science fiction adventure by the author of New York Times–bestseller The Uplift War.Hugo Award FinalistCenturies ago, the Buyur race abandoned Jijo. Now off-limits to settlers, it's warded by guardian machines who will protect the planet until the Institutes of the Five Galaxies declare Jijo ready—in another million years—for new civilization.But mere laws...

David Brin, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Sundiver, crafts Brightness Reef, a luminous gem of SF literature. Persecuted refugees from six separate alien races have migrated to the idyllic planet Jijo. And despite their incredible diversity, the inhabitants live together in blissful harmony. However, settlement on Jijo is illegal-and it's only a matter of time before the residents of this forbidden paradise are discovered by the galactic powers-that-be.

In Bright Particular Stars, David McKie examines the impact of 26 remarkable British eccentrics on 26 unremarkable British locations. From Broadway in the Cotswolds, where the Victorian bibliomaniac Sir Thomas Phillipps nurtured dreams of possessing every book in the world, to Kilwinning in Scotland, where in 1839 the Earl of Eglinton mounted a tournament that was Renaissance in its extravagance and disastrous in its execution, McKie leads us to places transformed, inspired, and s...

A NEW NOVEL IN THE NATIONALLY BEST-SELLING RCN MILITARY SF SERIES! Leary and Mundy are back in another military science fiction adventure as they undertake a mission to a distant but critical star system.IT'S JUST A REBELLION IN A DISTANT STAR CLUSTER.Captain Daniel Leary thinks that his marriage will allow him to slip into the quiet role of a naval officer in peacetime. His friend, the spy and cybrarian Adele Mundy, is content to be collating data in her library. But high ...