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2022., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: Bio H927a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Into the writer’s isolation comes a dog, to sit beside the chair or to lie on the couch while the writer works, to force them outside for a walk, and suddenly, although still lonely, the writer has a companion. An artist’s solitude is a sacred space, one to be guarded and kept apart from the chaos of the world. This isolation allows for uninhibited wandering, uninterrupted meditation, and the nurturing of sparks of inspiration into fires of creation. But in the artist’s quiet there is also loneliness, self-doubt, the possibility of collapsing too far inward. What an artist needs is a familiar, a creature perfectly suited to accompany them on this coveted, difficult journey. They need a companion with emotional intelligence, innate curiosity, passion and energy and an enthusiasm for the world beyond, but also the capacity to sleep contentedly for many hours. What an artist needs, Helen Humphreys would say, is a dog. AND A DOG CALLED FIG is a memoir of the writing life told through the dogs Helen has lived with and loved over a lifetime, culminating with the recent arrival and settling in of Fig, a Viszla puppy. Interspersed are stories of other writers and their irreplaceable companions: Virginia Woolf and Grizzle, Gertrude Stein and Basket, Thomas Hardy and Wessex—the dog who walked the dining table at dinner parties, taking whatever he liked—and many more. It’s a book about companionship and loss and creativity that is filled with the beauty of a steadfast canine friend and the restorative powers of nature. It is also a book about craft, divided into sections that echo the working parts of a novel – Beginnings, Character, Pacing, Setting, Structure, Process, Endings. Just as every work of art is different, every dog is different—with distinctive needs and lessons to offer. And if we let them guide us, they, like art, will show us many worlds we would otherwise miss.
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2010., Hurtubise Call No: FR Fic Hum Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: La nuit est tombée sur Coventry, ville industrielle de lœAngleterre, en ce 14 novembre 1940. Harriet Marsh est juchée sur le toit de la cathédrale, à lœaffût dœune attaque de lœaviation allemande. Depuis lœété, dix-sept raids ont eu lieu sur la ville, provoquant des dégâts limités. Le dix-huitième, qui se déploiera à la faveur dœune pleine lune propice, sera aussi le dernier. Pour Harriet, Jeremy, un jeune homme qui fait le guet avec elle, et sa mère Maeve, terrée non loin de là dans une cave, cette nuit tragique aura une incidence déterminante sur le reste de leur vie. Dans le cadre bouleversant de lœune des attaques aériennes les plus meurtrières de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Helen Humphreys tisse, entre le fracas et la fureur des bombes, dans la fumée et la poussière, parmi les ruines et les cratères, une histoire dœune infinie beauté. Dans la ville en flammes où les hirondelles tombent toutes rôties des nues, Harriet guide Jeremy à la recherche de sa mère. Alors que la mort déferle partout autour dœelle, Harriet reprend vie et redécouvre des sentiments quœelle croyait à jamais enfouis. Un récit dœune sobriété et dœune justesse sans faille, dœune sensibilité à fleur de peau, qui explore les thèmes de lœamour, de la mémoire et de la perte à travers une intrigue haletante. Un livre dœune troublante actualité, à offrir aux grands de ce monde qui persistent à tuer chaque jour, par militaires interposés, des centaines dœinnocents. Un livre dœune poésie envoûtante, où lœon suit pas à pas les trois héros dans les décombres, en tremblant de peur et dœangoisse pour des êtres de papier.
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c2008., HarperCollins Call No: Fic Hum Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Harriet, a widow, stands on the roof of Coventry Cathedral as part of the nightly fire watch, when first the factories and then the church itself are set on fire in an air attack. In the ensuing chaos Harriet and a young man have to find the way back to his home where he left his mother.
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c2015., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Call No: Fic Hum Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Resigned to living out the Second World War in a German POW camp, James Hunter, an English officer, begins studying a pair of redstarts near the camp. His interest in the birds captures the attention of the Kommandant and gives James cause to fear for his life. Meanwhile, back in England, James's young wife, Rose, falls headlong into a passionate affair with another man. When James's sister, Enid, is bombed out of her London flat, she comes to stay with Rose, and the two women form a surprising friendship that alters the course of both of their lives.
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2021., Adult, ECW Press Call No: 580.74 H927f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Helen Humphreys returns to her series of nature meditations in this illustrated book that takes a deep look at the forgotten world of herbariums and the people who amassed collections of plant specimens in the 19th and 20th centuries. From Emily Dickinson's and Henry David Thoreau's collections to the amateur naturalists whose names are forgotten but whose collections still grace our world, herbariums are the records of the often-humble plants that are still with us and those that are lost.
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2020., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: Fic Hum Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A lonely boy in a prairie town befriends a tramp in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking murder. Based on a true story. Canwood, Saskatchewan, 1947. Leonard Flint, a lonely boy in a small farming town befriends the local tramp, a man known as Rabbit Foot Bill. Bill doesn't talk much, but he allows Leonard to accompany him as he sets rabbit snares and to visit his small, secluded dwelling. Being with Bill is everything to young Leonard--an escape from school, bullies and a hard father. So his shock is absolute when he witnesses Bill commit a sudden violent act and loses him to prison. Fifteen years on, as a newly graduated doctor of psychiatry, Leonard arrives at the Weyburn Mental Hospital, both excited and intimidated by the massive institution known for its experimental LSD trials. To Leonard's great surprise, at the Weyburn he is reunited with Bill and soon becomes fixated on discovering what happened on that fateful day in 1947. Based on a true story, this page-turning novel from a master stylist examines the frailty and resilience of the human mind.
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2004., Harper Collins Books Call No: Fic Hum Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From the bestselling author of "The Lost Garden" comes a contemporary novel of love and wilderness; a novel that strips away the conventions of love and passion to reveal deeper, richer truths.
