In this compelling novel, a Canadian couple moves to Rio de Janeiro, each partner on a separate quest. Todd Austen is a committed environmentalist, fighting to save the lands of an Amazon tribe threatened by a sinister mining conglomerate. Holly Austen is a painter obsessed by the great voyage of Charles Darwin, who once lived only miles from her crumbling Rio house. She is also the caring mother of two young sons who finds herself constantly struggling for balance - that great ecological ideal - which also motivates her pre-occupied and increasingly endangered husband. Drink the Sky is a beautifully written, rich and evocative novel that asks some very modern questions about inheritance. What world will we bequeath our children? And what kind of childhood do we give them, as we struggle to attain our ideals?(1999)

Drink the sky

Krueger, Lesley

Key Porter/firefly

"He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." - Spanish Proverb From the moment Lesley Krueger was old enough to strike out on her own, she began to travel. She couldn`t wait to stretch out, to find herself in unfamiliar territory, to travel the world and to test her tolerance for change. Her two grandmothers, on the other hand, were reluctant immigrants to Canada - expatriates who never felt at home in their new land, forever strangers looking back to where they had come from. Weaving her own story of travel and living abroad around the patchwork of stories surrounding her grandmothers, Krueger investigates the nature of "foreignness" and expatriation, and the sense of place and belonging. She discovers that family mythologies shape the decisions of its members in ways unforseen - and that home cannot simply be left behind. Beautifully structured and written, Foreign Correspondences reveals the shadow and light of family legend and its surprising underlying truths. It reveals, too, the pilgrimage of one woman`s quest to understand the nature of belonging.

Foreign correspondences: A traveler's tales

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Key Porter Books

A riveting story of talent and the price it exacts, set in a richly imagined Victorian England Called the most promising artist of his generation, handsome, modest, and affectionate, Richard Dadd rubbed shoulders with the great luminaries of the Victorian Age. He grew up along the Medway with Charles Dickens and studied at the Royal Academy Schools under the brilliant and eccentric J.M.W. Turner. Based on Dadd’s tragic true story, Mad Richard follows the young artist as he develops his craft, contemplates the nature of art and fame as he watches Dickens navigate those tricky waters and ultimately finds himself imprisoned in Bedlam for murder, committed as criminally insane. In 1853, Charlotte Brontë about to publish her third novel, suffering from unrequited love, and herself wrestling with questions about art and artists, class, obsession and romance visits Richard at Bedlam and finds an unexpected kinship in his feverish mind and his haunting work. Masterfully slipping through time and memory, Mad Richard maps the artistic temperaments of Charlotte and Richard, weaving their divergent lives together with their shared fears and follies, dreams, and crushing illusions.

Mad Richard

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

ECW Press

A richly atmospheric portrait of women's agency and the timelessness of love, Time Squared explores the enduring roles of rights, responsibility, and devotion throughout history The game will change when you remember who you are Robin and Eleanor meet in 1811 at the British estate of Eleanor's rich aunt Clara. Robin is about to leave to fight in the Napoleonic Wars, and her aunt rules out a marriage between them. Everyone Eleanor knows, including Robin, believe they've always lived in these times. But Eleanor has strange glimpses of other eras, dreams that aren't dreams but memories of other lives. And their time jumps start as their romance deepens. Robin fights in the Boer War, the First and Second World Wars, in Vietnam and Iraq. Meanwhile, Eleanor struggles to figure out what's going on, finally understanding that she and Robin are being manipulated through time. Who is doing this, and why? Arriving in modern times, Eleanor sets off to confront the ones she discovers are behind this -- chessmasters playing her like a pawn. Eleanor's goal? To free herself to live out her life on her own terms. Time Squared examines the roles women are forced to play in different centuries, the power they're allowed, the stresses they face -- and what this does to their relationships.

Time Squared: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Literary

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