A beautifully tangled story of friendship, fairy tales, and family secrets. For those who loved Pax and The War That Saved My Life. 1919. Mama is ill. Father has taken a job abroad. Nanny Jane is too busy to pay any attention to...
Books and reading
- Auteur:Strange, LucySommaire:
- Auteur:Neff, Henry H.Sommaire:
Twelve-year-old Max and his allies risk much as they seek to acquire the Book of Origins, an artifact of unimaginable power, in hopes of halting the ancient evil that is bringing the world to its knees.
- Auteur:Siegemund-Broka, Austin, Wibberley, EmilySommaire:
Popsugar's Best New Romances of 2022GMA.com, Shondaland, and Bustle's Best of JanuaryE! News' Books to Add To Your Reading List in JanuaryBookbub's Most Anticipated Romances of WinterThey were cowriting literary...
- Auteur:Ozma, AliceSommaire:
When Alice Ozma was in fourth grade, she and her father decided to see if he could read aloud to her for a hundred consecutive nights. On the hundredth night, they shared pancakes to celebrate, but it soon became evident that neither...
- Auteur:Adams, Sara NishaSommaire:
Bright but anxious teenager Aleisha is working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It's a list of novels that she's never heard of before. When she...
- Auteur:Walmsley, Ann.Sommaire:
For eighteen months, Ann accompanied Carol to a remote building at Collins Bay, meeting with heavily tattooed book club members without the presence of guards or security cameras. Unlike the book clubs she participated in outside of...
- Auteur:Blair, KateSommaire:
Silva and her family visit her grandfather, only to find his health has taken a bad turn. As they struggle with this news, Silva seeks escape in books – at the local library.
But she gets more than she bargained for when a magpie... - Auteur:Manguel, AlbertoSommaire:
The book begins with the design and construction of Alberto Manguel's own library at his house in western France -- a process that raises puzzling questions about his past and his reading habits, as well as broader ones about the nature...
- Auteur:Kerrin, Jessica ScottSommaire:
The Missing Dog Is Spotted. Trevor Tower doesn’t worry about being short until he is assigned dog-walking duty with Loyola Louden, the tallest person in his class. But the dogs are a wonderful distraction, and even before Trevor and...
- Auteur:Buckley, MichaelSommaire:
As the fairytale detectives race through the Book of Everafter searching for their baby brother, they encounter various characters including the Editor and his army of Revisers, who threaten the children with dire consequences if they...
- Auteur:Krauss, NicoleSommaire:
It has been decades since Leo Leo Gursky first surrendered his heart, then wrote a book about it--at the tender age of 10--and he's been in love with the same person ever since. Leo believes his book is lost to time, but what he doesn't...
- Auteur:Birkerts, SvenSommaire:
In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he explores the impact of technology on...
- Auteur:Maclear, KyoSommaire:
While banished to a dusty study one day "to think things over", a boy pulls a book off a shelf and with great reluctance begins to read. As the afternoon passes, the story nabs him and carries him away. Before long, this good little...
- Auteur:Neff, Henry H.Sommaire:
Young Max McDaniels battles trolls, water beasts, and other monsters in a hostile, poverty-stricken dystopian landscape profoundly transformed by the villainous Astaroth.
- Auteur:Stowell, LouieSommaire:
Kit Spencer can't stand reading. She'd rather be outside playing and getting muddy than stuck inside with a book. But when her best friends, Josh and Alita, drag her to the local library, Kit makes an incredible discovery: she...
- Auteur:Moers, WalterSommaire:
In this third tale of Zamonia, Optimus Yarnspinner sets off to track down a mysterious author in Bookholm. Once there he faces cold-blooded book hunters, cyclopean Fearsome Booklings, sharp-toothed Animatomes, and the Shadow King.
- Auteur:Natsukawa, SōsukeSommaire:
High school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the bookstore he inherited when a talking cat named Tiger recruits him to save books. Together, they journey into mazes to set books free.
- Auteur:Colgan, JennySommaire:
Nina Redmond is a librarian with a gift for finding the perfect book for her readers. But can she write her own happy-ever-after? In this valentine to readers, librarians, and book-lovers the world over, the New York Times-bestselling...
- Auteur:Novak, B. J.Sommaire:
This innovative and wildly funny audiobook by award-winning humorist/actor B.J. Novak will turn any listener into a comedian. You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except . . . here’s how books work....
- Auteur:Zusak, MarkusSommaire:
A young adult novel about how a young girl's love of books helps a community survive World War II and the Holocaust. It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical...