San Antonio College Library

In her customary crystalline prose Harriet Doerr examines the lives of four North American expatriates in a small Mexican village of a thousand souls. Set on the barren mesa of Amapolas, we see the newcomers settling in their adobe houses and gradually adjusting to an environment of excesses - hot sun, torrential downpour, sweeping landscapes, and a vastness of untouched nature - and watch as each is drawn into the aura of this land and changed. For...

"'Hay Fever' tells the story of one prominent Manhattan professional who gave it a shot--and discovered that the "simple life" is often anything but. Seeking escape and diversion from family pressures, a demanding career, and an unfulfilling social life, Angela Miller and her husband set their sites on a charming nineteenth-century farm in Vermont. They got much more than they bargained for"--Page 2 of cover.

Brings together all of Thomas Hardy's poems from the Wessex Poems, published in 1898, to Human Shows, Far Phantasies, published 1925.

In deep Amazonia, a jaguar whose cubs were killed by an American hunter is spreading terror among humans, a symbolic act of revenge by nature against mankind for destroying the eco-system. The author, aChilean, worked for UNESCO in the Amazon.

A young boy describes the favorite places that he shares with his family on his grandparents' farm and in the nearby countryside.

Dearsley's wife thought he had lost his mind when he announced his intention to become a beekeeper. He set for himself what seemed a reasonable goal: to get, in one year's time, just one jar of honey.