Blithedale Romance (Penguin Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne You Belong Here --Francine Prose

--Francine Prose

Her award-winning picture book biographies include Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine

Robyn Gough

has grown to capture the lives and stories of much of the wildlife in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem

the man-made threats to their ecosystem

Blithedale Romance (Penguin Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne You Belong Here --Francine ProseA superb depiction of a utopian community that cannot survive the individual passions of its members. In language that is suggestive and often erotic, Nathaniel Hawthorne tells a tale of failed possibilities and multiple personal betrayals as he explores the contrasts between what his characters espouse and what they actually experience in an 'ideal' community. A theme of unrealized sexual possibilities serves as a counterpoint to the other failures