Childe Hassam
Color maps and images throughout
Alkhatib’s own water-color illustrations
from the arrival of Henry Morton Stanley to the tragic regime of King Leopold II
Edy steadily built his career as a chef and caterer
The Stain Fiction_Gift_Guide Childe HassamThe provocative, spellbinding debut novel, set in a village in the Loire Valley in the late 19th century, by prolific worldbuilder Rikki Ducornet. In The Stain, Rikki Ducornet tells the story of a young girl named Charlotte, branded with a furry birthmark in the shape of a dancing hare, regarded as the mark of Satan. "Sadistic nuns, scatology, butchered animals, monkish rapists, and Satan" (Kirkus), as well as the village exorcist, inhabit this bawdy