Alexis Smith

Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fixes her computer, and dreams of the perfect vintage dress move over a backdrop of deteriorating urban architecture and the imminent loss of the glaciers she knew as a young girl in Alaska. Glaciers unfolds internally, the action shaped by Isabel’s sense of history, memory, and place, recalling the work of writers such as Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Virginia Woolf. For Isabel, the fleeting moments of one day can reveal an entire life. While she contemplates loss and the intricate fissures it creates in our lives, she accumulates the stories—the remnants—of those around her and she begins to tell her own story.

Glaciers

Alexandria Byron

Join Princess Ada on her adventures of Virtue. This is Book one in a series that teaches children the fundamental elements of good behavior and character. In Princess Ada Adventures in Friendship, readers will be taken on a journey through the African jungle and discover what it means to be a good friend. Princess Ada has a few lessons to learn, but she gets some good advice from her mother that helps her along the way. A great book to read out loud as it builds suspense with every challenge along the way. Sure to keep young audiences alert while teaching them the necessary skills for building good relationships. A great book to help children to identify characteristics of good friendships.

Princess Ada Adventures in Friendship

Richard Armstrong

"Working from inside American popular culture, Alexis Smith makes direct use of our shared values, fears, and aspirations to create an art that is both extremely private and remarkably plain-speaking. This is no simple matter, for Smith's art is deeply rooted in the narrative forms of Conceptualism... Smith produces a profoundly moral art confronting social issues from a psychologically charged perspective. ...the artist is best understood in the Symbolist tradition, and it is that quality, served well by her dry wit, that elevates her unique constructions above most common narrative work. That she often draw her themes from Hollywood film culture and the pulp fiction universe only adds to the lure of legibility which underscores Smith's desire to include her reader-viewer in her compelling vision."--from foreword.

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