New Releases by Katherine Kirkpatrick

From farmers cutting hay with scythes to dancers jigging to fiddle music on barn floors, artist William Sidney Mount''s paintings reveal a seldom recognized world on the North Shore of Long Island. At a time when racist caricatures were the norm, Mount portrayed people of color in his mid-nineteenth-century works with great humanity. The subjects who posed for Mount include Rachel the eel spearer, Henry Brazier the left-handed fiddler, George Freeman the jaunty banjo player and other agricultural laborers, domestic workers and musicians. Authors Katherine Kirkpatrick and Vivian Nicholson-Mueller honor by name the once anonymous Black and mixed-race models depicted in Long Island artist William Sidney Mount''s internationally renowned paintings. Book jacket.

The Canadian criminal justice system is exemplary but imperfect, particularly for society''s most vulnerable members. Increasingly, therapeutic methods of justice administration are using focused rehabilitation as an alternative to incarceration. This shift acknowledges that illness and personal circumstances can sentence individuals to repeated encounters with the justice system, and that treatment can disrupt that cycle. The law can be a therapeutic agent, but its efficacy is undermined and underserved by traditional courtroom architecture. This thesis proposes a new type of courthouse that combines judicial and therapeutic functions, and that engages with the surrounding community. Architectural strategies are employed to create healthier spaces, and to cultivate improved relationships between individuals, the justice system and their communities. Using the court-monitored drug treatment program in Kentville, Nova Scotia, as a test case, this thesis asks: how can the architecture of the courthouse physically and psychologically better support therapeutic forms of justice administration?

For sixteen-year-old Eliza Brown, life seems hopelessly dreary. It''s 1903, and the turn of the century is bringing new ideas and dramatic changes. But at Stepping Stones lighthouse, the chores are endless and the company gloomy. Eliza feels isolated on the rocky island with her sullen brother Sam, her taciturn father, and her critical mother. Her happiest moments come when she travels to school on City Island by rowboat. If only she could find a way to escape her claustrophobic home.When a family tragedy strikes, Eliza''s life changes utterly in a few tumultuous days. She suddenly has more freedom that she ever imagined possible--even opportunities for romance. But her new life also brings formidable challenges and painful decisions. Where does a spirited and rebellious young woman like Eliza really belong?In the tradition of L. M. Montgomery''s ''Anne of Green Gables'' books, Katherine Kirkpatrick has written a heartfelt and stirring novel with a thoroughly enchanting heroine."Katherine Kirkpatrick''s KEEPING THE GOOD LIGHT is a novel full of delight. It has a strong feeling for period and place and character, the three most essential ingredients for good reading." --Madeleine L''EngleKEEPING THE GOOD LIGHT is a strong story, beautifully researched, with a heroine who would be a good role model in any era." --Natalie Babbitt"The plot is engaging and enriched with substantial historical detail, bringing time and place vividly to light. This is an outstanding book with a truly contemporary heroine in a historical setting. Readers of L. M. Montgomery''s ''Anne of Green Gables'' series will find Eliza a kindred spirit." --School Library Journal

In the 1890s, sixteen-year-old Eqariusaq, from the village of Itta near Ellesmere, is caught between traditional Inuit life with her lazy husband Angulluk and the world of Lieutenant Peary and his family and crew, who call her Billy Bah.

Presents the story of Kennewick Man, one of the oldest and most complete skeletons found in America near the Columbia River in Washington.

Madeleine L’Engle’s friends and writing studentsremember the beloved author in nearly three dozenessays and poems, illustrated with photographs.Second edition has a black and white interior.

Politics and society in the long eighteenth century in England were dominated by the aristorcracy, who, in the interest of protecting their property rights, passed a series of statutes known as the "Bloody Code." As the number of capital crimes grew to over two hundred, transportation to America developed into an acceptable alternative to execution. Judges and juries also practiced discretion and leniency in their sentencing, lessening the severity of the criminal code.

Based on her own autobiography, this story chronicles the childhood of Marie Ahnighito Peary, growing up in the 1890''s and living north of the Arctic Circle.

After escaping religious persecution in France in 1686, Daniel Bonnet, a young Huguenot boy, and his parents travel on a slave ship to West Africa, then to the Caribbean, and finally to New York. As Daniel grows he must confront the challenges and moral complexities of slavery, inequality, and disability.

In 1866, young orphan Emeline McCullough leaves her mill job in Lowell, Massachusetts, to head for Seattle, Washington, aboard the steamship Continental, writing in her diary about the intrigue, danger, and romance she encounters on her journey.

Susanna Hutchinson is nine years old in l643, when her mother, Anne, has a vision that leads the family to settle in the wilderness where the Dutch and the Native tribes are at war. Anne is infamous throughout the Colonies for her religious freethinking, and her visions have brought the family in and out of trouble. One horrifying afternoon, Lenape warriors massacre Susanna''s family and take her captive. Though haunted by grief, she adapts to the ways of the Lenape people. When she begins to have spirit dreams, she is terrified that she has inherited her mother''s powers. But Susanna comes to see that these powers are her destiny and the bridge between her two worlds.

Members of a family in the village of Setauket on Long Island are displaced by the Redcoats and serve as spies for the Revolutionary Army of George Washington.