Jerry Phillips
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Explores the social, cultural, and historical contexts of American literature in the first half of the 19th century, when social reform movements, international upheavals, and a rapidly expanding frontier combined to shape the literary identity of the new United States. Authors discussed include Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau,...
2) Johnny
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
When Dr. Drew Carter tragically lost his 10-year-old son in a car accident while his wife Julia was driving, he didn't expect to lose his whole family as well. Since the accident, Julia is emotionally absent from Drew and their daughter Kayla. When Dr. Miller refers Johnny, a foster child with leukemia, to Drew, the wheels start to turn as he sees a chance to heal his family. Johnny doesn't know what he is in for, but is convinced he's there for a...