The Giving Quilt : an Elm Creek Quilts Novel
Library Journal Post-Thanksgiving at Elm Creek Manor, aspiring quilters are enjoying a special winter session of quilt camp. Their aim? To create warm, colorful quilts for Project Linus, a real-life charity Chiaverini supports that offers handmade quilts and blankets for children in need. Not a dry eye after finishing this book; with a reading group […]
A Christmas Garland : a Novel
Publishers Weekly A particularly strong plot distinguishes bestseller Perry's 10th Christmas mystery (after 2011's Christmas Homecoming). In India in 1857, unrest over the oppressive minority rule of the East India Company has come to a head, with thousands of civilians as well as company employees dying in the ensuing violence. Against this tense backdrop, inexperienced […]
Live By Night
The New York Times Live by Night is Crime Noir 101, as taught by the best of its current practitioners…sophisticated, literary and barbed…a sentence-by-sentence pleasure. You are in the hands of an expert. And you'll know it.
Michael Townsend's Where Do Presidents Come From?
Just in time for the 2012 election, Michael Townsend presents his comic book guide to everything you ever wanted to know (and maybe a few things you didn't!) about the President of the United States. It's full of insanely weird facts about our leaders (Did you know that President Coolidge had a pet pygmy hippo […]
In Sunlight and In Shadow
The Washington Post Mark Helprin's juicy and entertaining new novel…delivers a rich portrait of postwar America, and a late, lengthy flashback to Harry's war experiences brings some much needed ballast to the bigger picture…In Sunlight and in Shadow is a sensational and perfectly gripping novel: a love story, a tribute to the fighting spirit of […]
Hiss and Hers : an Agatha Raisin Mystery
Kirkus Reviews A private detective's amatory obsessions get her in trouble once again. Agatha Raisin (As the Pig Turns, 2011, etc.) may be a dogged investigator and no fool, but her penchant for falling for the wrong man always seems to lead to disaster. This time her gardener, George Marston, is the object of her […]
Under Wildwood
Kirkus Reviews Droll and ornate, elegiac and romantic–the sequel to Wildwood (2011) brings readers deeper into and under the pine-scented, magical world tantalizingly close to Portland, Ore. Prue is drawn back to Wildwood by herons who rescue her from a trio of terrifying shape-shifters, and there she is reunited with Curtis, who stayed to enjoy […]
A Dangerous Inheritance : a Novel of Tudor Rivals and the Secret of the Tower
“A compelling, even irresistible, read.â€â€”Booklist (starred review)
The Blackhouse
"Order, read, and pass it on! Well known for novels and television dramas, Scottish author May (Backlight Blue; Chinese Whispers) has written a mesmerizing new trilogy opener. May brings the story to a breathtaking conclusion with an astonishing twist at the end. Compare to Simon Beckett's Written in Bone for locale and Tana French for […]
Dodger
“Lovingly crafted and completely enjoyable. The temptation to quote sentences, whole paragraphs, and possibly entire chapters is almost irresistible.†(Booklist (starred review) )