Linda Spalding: 5 books
Who Named The Knife
A True Story of Murder and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
When a murder occurs in beautiful Hawaii, the suspects are two young mainlanders on their honeymoon. Mayann Acker is eighteen-years-old. Her husband, William, is twenty-eight and just out of prison.Linda Spalding is chosen as a juror for Maryann's trail. Surprisingly, the chief witness against her...
A Reckoning
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
It’s 1855, and the Dickinson farm, in the bottom corner of Virginia, is already in debt when a Northern abolitionist arrives and creates havoc among the slaves. Determined to find his mother and daughter, who are already free in Canada, Bry is the first slave to flee, and his escape inspires a dozen...
The Purchase
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Winner of Canada's 2012 Governor General's Award for Fiction
In this provocative and starkly beautiful historical novel, a Quaker family moves from Pennsylvania to the Virginia frontier, where slaves are the only available workers and where the family’s values and beliefs are sorely tested.
In...
This Is Not A Border
Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world.
The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert...
by Linda Spalding
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Pennsylvania, 1798. Na de dood van zijn vrouw blijft Daniel Dickinson met vijf jonge kinderen achter. Als hij een overhaast huwelijk met een vijftienjarig weesmeisje sluit, wordt hij uit de quakergemeenschap gestoten en besluit hij met zijn gezin naar Virginia te vertrekken. Na een lange reis vol...