relating the highs and lows of an extraordinary life
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When Abby gets a last-minute invitation to lead a cycling trip from NYC to Niagara Falls
this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families-the Trasks and the Hamiltons-whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel
where it dawns on her that there is something very
Elephant Girl SIZE:Standard relating the highs and lowsClever, sensitive Jama likes elephants better than people. While her classmates gossip especially about the new boy, Leku twelve year old Jama takes refuge at the watering hole outside her village. There she befriends a baby elephant she names Mbegu, Swahili for seed. When Mbegu's mother, frightened by poachers, stampedes, Jama and Mbegu are blamed for two deaths one elephant and one human. Now Leku, whose mysterious and imposing father is head ranger