When reclusive war poet Olivia Marlowe and her half brother Nicholas Cheney die together in their ancestral home on the Cornish coast, it looks like suicide. The grieving relatives gather together to discuss the fate of Barcombe Hall,...
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Author:Todd, CharlesSummary: -
Author:DeWitt, PatrickSummary:On the The Scotiabank Giller Prize 2015 Longlist. A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners. Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless...
- Author:Ferron, AndréSummary:
Le onze septembre Il n'y a pas que les tours jumelles qui se sont effondrées ce jour-là... Le 11 septembre 2001, pendant que le pire attentat terroriste de toute l'histoire est commis, un homme divorcé prend la route pour...
- Author:Carey, M. R.Summary:
Koli never planned to set foot outside his small village. He knew that beyond its walls lay a fearsome landscape filled with choker trees, vicious beasts, and Shunned men. But when he was exiled, he had no choice but to journey out into...
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
1912. The peace of the Lake District is interrupted by the noisy test flights of a new flying machine: the hydroplane--and Beatrix's friend Grace is receiving anonymous letters that threaten her good name and her plans to marry.
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
The serenity of Hill Top Farm is shattered when a local shephard is murdered. Beatrix Potter--when she's not busy making friends with her fellow villagers--lends her insights to the investigation.
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
It's 1905, and to recover from the loss of her fiancé, Beatrix Potter moves into a small farmhouse in Sawrey. Populated by colorful characters, both human and critter, her new life is full of promise. That is, until a villager dies, and...
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
When Beatrix finds an abandoned infant, Captain Woodcock and Dimity care for the child as Beatrix and her furry and feathered friends search for its mother.
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
It is now 1907, and in her Lake Country village, Beatrix Potter is about to encounter both woodland magic and an intriguing mystery. As she helps some village children look for fairy folk, she stumbles upon evidence that a flame-haired...
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Author:Ellis, Sarah, St-Aubin, BrunoSummary:Winner of the Mr. Christie's Book Award and the IODE Violet Downey Book Award. For young Jack, life is tough at the Opportunities School for Orphans. But Jack is good at staying out of trouble. He has skipped over trouble, danced around...
- Author:French, TanaSummary:
A New York Times Bestseller "This hushed suspense tale about thwarted dreams of escape may be her best one yet...its own kind of masterpiece." -Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post A "taut, chiseled and propulsive...
- Author:French, TanaSummary:
Best Book of 2020 New York Times |NPR | New York Post "This hushed suspense tale about thwarted dreams of escape may be her best one yet . . . Its own kind of masterpiece." -Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post "A new...
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Author:Camilleri, AndreaSummary:Vigàta is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish television series set in 1950. The director asks locals to track down movies and vintage photos to faithfully recreate the air of Vigàta in that time. Engineer Ernesto...
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Author:Deedy, Carmen AgraSummary:The mayor of the noisy city of La Paz institutes new laws forbidding all singing, but a brave little rooster decides he must sing, despite the progressively severe punishments he receives for continuing to crow. The silenced populace,...
- Author:Brogden, JamesSummary:
Londoners Paul and Tricia Feenan sell up to escape to the isolated Holiwell village where Tricia has inherited a property. Scattered throughout the settlement are centuries-old stones used during the Great Plague as boundary markers...
- Author:Simon, ChristineSummary:
The self-appointed mayor of a tiny Italian village is determined to save his hometown no matter the cost in this charming, hilarious, and heartwarming debut novel. Vacuum repairman and self-appointed mayor of Prometto, Italy (population...
- Author:Hayes-McCoy, FelicitySummary:
As Cassie Fitzgerald is about to discover, there's more to the holidays on the west coast of Ireland than mistletoe and mince pies. But the more she's drawn into the festivities leading up to her first Irish Christmas, the...
- Author:Paasewe-Valchev, MayonnSummary:
There are three important laws in Ezomo's village: do not go to The Valley, do not go out at night, and never, ever, ever open the magical door that protects them all. But when Ezomo encounters the leopard believed to have killed...
- Author:French, TanaSummary:
An Instant New York Times Bestseller Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by the Washington Post, TIME Magazine, BBC, TODAY, Lit Hub, CrimeReads, and more "Hailed as the queen of Irish crime fiction, French spins a taut tale of...
- Author:Heng, RachelSummary:
WINNER OF THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE AND THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, TOWN & COUNTRY, KIRKUS, ELECTRIC LITERATURE AND BOOKPAGE ! "...
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