Counting on Grace

Counting on GraceBy: Elizabeth Winthrop 1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a doffers on their mothers looms in the mill. Graces mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. But shes left handed and doffing is a right handed job. Graces every mistake costs her mother, and the family. She only feels capable on Sundays, when she and Arthur receive special lessons

Northern Lights

only to be sold into slavery in the South when it is discovered that she has Negro blood

”—Kurt Andersen

“Mailer’s account of Apollo 11 stands as a stunning image of human energy and purposefulness

crumbling apartment

with his father gone

It’s bigger than that

Lewis     From the #1 New York Times best-selling author Blood Moon

Told by Karina in poetic verse

Blizzard of the Blue Moon (#8)

an asylum of power-mad politicians and Croesus-rich patrons'

dumping them both into the icy waters of the North Atlantic