When three guinea pigs from the local pet shop make a great escape, Stink Moody and his friends Webster and Sophie fly into action. Ta-da! The Fantastic Three round up the loose fur balls and bring them safely back to Mrs. Birdwistle's shop, where they discover - ooh-la-la! - Guinea pig pandemonium! But the rescuing is far from over, so Stink and company hit the road in a crazy quest to find go…
from: The Chickens are tired of eating the same thing every day, and rooster knows only one thing can stop their grumbling . . . a FIESTA!
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie's vivacious cousin enters their household as a "hired girl", Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives…
n The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton depicts the glittering salons of Gilded Age New York with precision and wit, even as she movingly portrays the obstacles that impeded women's choices at the turn of the century. The beautiful, much-desired Lily Bart has been raised to be one of the perfect wives of the wealthy upper class, but her spark of character and independent drive prevents her from …
Newland Archer and May Welland have just announced their engagement to New York society, and the match seems perfect -- until Archer meets Countess Olenska, a sharp, beautiful woman in the midst of a divorce . . . it's for good reason this book won Edith Wharton Pulitzer Prize. "Is it -- in this world -- vulgar to ask for more? To entreat a little wildness, a dark place or two in the soul?" --…