Library Notes - Dec 2019
Jane Austen For The holidays
Holiday Greetings from JASNA Calgary!
What are you hoping for under the Christmas tree this year? Could it be a new book for your Jane Austen collection? Check out the latest from the library when making your list.
Latest Additions
Jane and the Damned: It's More than Her Wit That's Biting by Janey Mullany
The "stakes" are high and vampires rule when legendary author Jane Austen joins the ranks of the undead in Janet Mullany's bloody wonderful literary mash-up.
The Dashwood Sisters Tell All: A Modern Day Novel of Jane Austen by Beth Pattillo
Ellen and Mimi Dodge have never been close, but their mother's dying wish sends them on a walking tour of Hampshire, England, that follows in the footsteps of Jane Austen. Their mother also left them something else: a diary that belonged to Jane's sister Cassandra.
Jane Austen: A Brief Life by Fiona Stafford
Newly updated, Jane Austen: A Brief Life offers a rich and sympathetic insight into a writer who was just as much the Romantic genius as Keats, Shelley or Byron “ full of youthful exuberance, intensely creative once she had found her individual voice, and dead before she reached middle age.
Pride and Prejudice and Puzzles: Ingenious Riddles and Vexing Dilemmas Inspired by Jane Austen's Novels by Richard Galland
Permit yourself the indulgence of an interval of recreation and amusement to make your acquaintance with the riddles and conundrums contained within; for you are sure to receive no inconsiderable pleasure from the puzzling over and resolving of them. Your quest for an amiable distraction will be over, leaving your curiosity entirely satisfied.
The Three Colonels: Jane Austen's Fighting Men by Jack Caldwell
Two of the three military heroes emerge straight from Jane Austen: Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam and Colonel Christopher Brandon. The third, Colonel Sir John Buford, has been conjured up from the author’s fertile imagination. One is married (Brandon); one gets married (Buford); one wants marriage (Fitzwilliam).
Thanks to Jennifer for this donation.