As Chimney Sweepers Come To Dust (DRC) Alan Bradley Delacorte Press Release date: January 6, 2015 If you haven’t caught Flavia fever by now, you’re missing out on something special. Twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is a chemist prodigy-turned-sleuth who has solved any number of thefts, murders, and kidnappings in her six previous adventures. At the …
The Illusion of SeparatenessSimon Van BooyHarper Collins We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh Martin. Mr. Hugo. Sebastien. John. Amelia. New York, France, England, Los Angeles. A Nazi soldier, a baker; an orphaned baby and a U.S. fighter pilot. Writer Simon Van Booy tells their stories in …
A Man Called Ove (NetGalley DRC)by Fredrik BackmanAtria Books Time is a curious thing. Most of us only live for the time that lies right ahead of us … One of the most painful moments in a person’s life probably comes with the insight that an age has been reached when there is more to look back on than …
The Book Thief Markus Zusak The Book Thief has been on my Amazon Wishlist for ages; published several years ago and a New York Times bestseller for now a second go-around, it seemed like good summer reading. Okay, so a novel about Nazi Germany might not be everyone’s idea of a beach book, but what …
We are all completely beside ourselves Karen Joy Fowler Until she was five, Rosemary Cooke had a sister. Fern, her almost-twin. The two girls were inseparable: they jumped and sang and cuddled and competed for attention. They were joined at the heart with a love that was bigger than even they knew at the time. …
The Longings of Wayward Girls (Galley Alley) Karen Brown Karen Brown’s Longings of Wayward Girls is one of the only chick lit titles I’ve read this summer … and it’s a great one! Brown tells the story of Sadie at twelve and Sadie years later as wife and mother. Because what happened to Sadie then was haunting …
The Little Way of Ruthie Leming (NetGalley) Rob Dreher release date: April 9, 2013 “When a community loses its memory, its members no longer know one another,” writes the agrarian essayist Wendell Berry. “How can they know one another if they have forgotten or have never learned one another’s stories? If they do not know one another’s …
Speaking From Among the Bones (NetGalley)Alan Bradleyrelease date: February 2013 Was sorrow, in the end, a private thing? A closed container? Something that, like a bucket of water, could be borne only on a single pair of shoulders? The story begins in true Flavia fashion with a twelve-year-old girl who can’t keep her eyes off …
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore William Joyce I really have no need to browse children’s books anymore, but long ago in a life far away, I did work in a children’s bookstore–and sighed over more powerfully sweet stories and gorgeous illustrations than I can remember. So as my daughter and I were leaving …
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs Peculiar traits often skip a generation, or ten. Peculiar children are not always, or even usually, born to peculiar parents, and peculiar parents do do always, or even usually, bear peculiar children. Can you imagine, in a world so afraid of otherness, why this would be a danger to …
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