<p><div>In 2013 archaeologists in Jamestown, Virginia discovered the grave of a fourteen-year-old girl who had died there 400 years ago. Her bones bore the unmistakable marks of cannibalism: proof that in the terrible "Starving Time" in the winter of 1609-1610, some of the desperate colonists who ate rats, mice, shoe leather to stay alive, also ate human flesh. Their story is told in this extraordinary historical novel. Based on the actual history of Virginia, this is a tale of savagery and squalor, love and betrayal, of unquenchable hope and gritty courage. Many of the characters are known from colonial records: John Smith and Pocahontas (the site of her famous "rescue" of Smith has recently been discovered); the shrewd Powhatan, father of Pocahontas and ruler of 15,000 Indians; Temperance and George Yardley, a couple separated by a shipwreck and reunited with unforeseen results; and others who made the perilous voyage to Virginia. There a determined company of settlers struggled to survive in an unfamiliar land. Surrounded by natives who did not welcome them, they battled grim adversity and human frailty, deceit, and treachery to plant the first successful English colony in the New World.<br /> <br /> By the time the Mayflower landed at Plymouth in 1620, English ships had already carried more than three thousand people to Jamestown, Virginia--and nearly two thousand of them had died there.<br /> <br /> Their story is the story of America's beginnings.</div> <div> </div> <div> <div><b>Virginia Bernhard</b> is Professor Emerita of History at the University of<br /> St. Thomas. She is the author of A TALE OF TWO COLONIES: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN VIRGINIA AND BERMUDA? (2011) and other works on early American history. She and her husband live in Houston, Texas.</div> </div> <div><br /> <i>A complex tale of courage, treachery, cultural conflict, administrative bungling and desperate choices.</i><br /> <b>PUBLISHERS WEEKLY</b><br /> <br /> <i>Colonial Jamestown springs from the pages. An absorbing telling that blends fact and fiction.</i><br /> <b>NEW YORK DAILY NEWS</b><br /> <br /> <i>Combines Bernhard's expertise as an American history professor with a vivid, sure prose style to produce a rich tale of suffering and triumph in 1600s America.</i><br /> <b>KIRKUS REVIEWS</b></div></p>

Jamestown: The Novel: The Story of America's Beginnings

Literature & Fiction

Virginia Bernhard

United States

Lymehouse Productions, Inc.

<p>In 1847 Edward Dickinson’s daughter Emily was seventeen, a student at Mary Lyon’s female seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Thrilled by the challenges of her education, yet repressed by the school atmosphere, she began writing letters home and to the friends she felt lonely for----passionate letters that reveled in bubbling and irreverent mischief and declared the affectionate intensity of the budding poet. Later, after her death at the age of fifty-five, friends and relatives exchanged misunderstandings of the woman they had known----and of the poetic treasure that they had no sure way of evaluating.<br><br>Out of these sixty-six imagined letters, Judith Farr, herself a poet and Dickinson scholar, has created a brilliant novel, which, written in the language of Emily Dickinson’s contemporaries, lays out the entire emotional spectrum of her life. We see the young Emily groping toward poetic expression. We share the bewilderment of her teachers and friends as the girl reacts with the ingenuity of genius to people, books, and events. We marvel at her private letters To a Mysterious Person.” We smile with her at the confusion of others as they struggle to keep up with the poet’s imagination, at those who try to correct” her mode of expression. We share the experience of the first man to take her photograph. We watch her die, dreadfully and prematurely. When we are done, we have shared in a wondrous mystery, for we are the only ones allowed to know who Emily Dickinson was: these letters are written to us.<br><br>As Diane Wood Middlebrook has written, This work of fiction---meticulously researched, delicately attuned to the language of the times---provides an explanation more persuasive than any biography ever will, of what happened to the girl on the brink of womanhood to make her the person who wrote those poems. A startling good read.”<br><br>Peculiar, incandescent, astonishing”<br>-The New Yorker</p>

I Never Came to You in White: A Novel about Emily Dickinson

Farr, Professor Emerita of English & American Literature Georgetown University Judith

Soon after Emmy award winning comedy writer and playwright Lee Kalcheim’s twin boys were born, he realized he wouldn’t get much sleep for the next few years. So, while he was awake, he’d better remember what was happening. Lee records the poignant funny stories of this free wheeling family, their adventures living in L.A., Rome and New York, most importantly; the lessons he learned bringing them up. “We all just laughed our way through life, and I realized, writing comedy is hard….living it is exuberant!”Lee Kalcheim has written for both the theatre and television. An Emmy winning comedy writer (All In The Family), Cable Ace Award winner (The Paper Chase), Writers Guild Award (The Bridge of Adam Rush) and creator of the comedy series “Something Wilder” for NBC, which won no awards, but enabled Mr. Kalcheim to return to his first love; Playwriting. His plays include: “Breakfast With Les and Bess” at the Lambs Theatre, “Friends” at Manhattan Theatre Club”, “Defiled” at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, with Peter Falk and Jason Alexander, and “Slouching Toward Hollywood” at the Penguin Rep in Stony Point, NY and “Seminar” most recently in Tokyo Japan."A beguiling valentine to fatherhood from one of the funniest minds in Hollywood and New York !"Daniel Klein, co author of the New York Times bestseller, “Plato And A Platypus Walk Into A Bar”“Lee Kalcheim is one of my favorite Dads for three reasons: what he does; what he hears; and how he tells it.”Jason Alexander, Actor

Father Knows Less

Biographies & Memoirs

Kalcheim, Lee

Community & Culture

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