The Paying Guests
Publishers Weekly ★ 06/16/2014 With two brothers killed in WWI and a debt-ridden father who followed them to the grave soon afterward, 27-year-old spinster Frances Wray knows that she and her mother must take in lodgers (euphemistically described as “paying guestsâ€) to maintain their large house in a genteel section of London. In the postwar […]
Super Sniffers : Dog Detectives On the Job
Publishers Weekly Review: Patent provides an extensive and eye-opening look at how dogs are trained for a variety of service capacities, including in the military, for search-and-rescue operations, and as medical alert dogs. Occasional profiles of individual dogs appear amid larger, photo-heavy discussions of the wide variety of jobs these dogs do and how they […]
The Tell-tale Start
Children's Literature – Lois Rubin Gross This might be the start of a hilarious series! Edgar and Allan Poe are super-identical twins who share thoughts, feelings, and pranks that get them expelled from their Baltimore school. The orphaned twins, great-great-great-great grand-nephews of Edgar Allan of horror story fame, live with their incredibly tolerant aunt and […]
A Demon Summer
Publishers Weekly 08/25/2014 Agatha-winner Malliet’s entertaining fourth Max Tudor cozy (after 2013’s Pagan Spring) finds the former MI5 spy turned Anglican priest working up the nerve to tell his bishop that he plans to marry Awena Owen, who holds decidedly untraditional religious views. But before Max and Awena can tie the knot, the bishop dispatches […]
Festive In Death
Lieutenant Eve Dallas has good reason to be overstressed. She's staggering under the weight of her Christmas shopping, plus wrangling with holiday bash guest list possibilities—and, oh yes, there is that pestiferous homicide case of Trey Ziegler, the sexy exercise conditioner whose bulging roster of castoff lovers made him a prime target for many enemies. […]
The Dog
Publishers Weekly ★ 06/09/2014 As he did brilliantly in Netherland, O’Neill, in his latest, creates a character who is alienated from his home and social class, and who feels dangerously vulnerable in a country in which he lives a luxurious but precarious existence. The unnamed narrator (we do learn that his given name begins with […]
Fool's Assassin
Publishers Weekly ★ 06/30/2014 It’s been 10 years since Hobb concluded the Tawny Man series and ostensibly brought to an end the accounts of FitzChivalry Farseer and the Fool in Fool’s Fate—but now Fitz is back to star in a new trilogy, and the adventure and intrigue is as electrifying and mesmerizing as ever. Posing […]
Beautiful Redemption
Entertainment Weekly : "The fourth and final installment picks up after the massive cliff-hanger in Beautiful Chaos and doesn't disappoint."
Oblivion
Anthony Horowitz's spellbinding fantasy series storms to a fitting finale in this fifth installment of The Gatekeepers. A raging storm has unleashed evil powers that the five youthful Gatekeepers will be hard-pressed to neutralize this world-crushing threat. One series closer you won't want to miss.
Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library
Publishers Weekly Librarians and English teachers will happily recommend this adventurous romp from Grabenstein (the Riley Mack books), which pays playful homage to books and libraries while engaging readers in a fast-paced competition involving research and reasoning skills. Twelve seventh-graders win a chance to spend an overnight lock-in previewing their town’s new public library—it’s a […]