Where the Shadows Lie
Library Journal Boston detective Magnus Jonson, an Icelandic American, is sent on temporary assignment to work with the Icelandic police force after uncovering a police corruption scandal that endangered his life. On arriving in Reykjavík, he immediately joins an investigation into a puzzling death at a lake resort. It turns out a professor was murdered […]
The Magician King : a Novel
Kirkus Reviews Now a king in the magical land of Fillory, Quentin embarks on a quest to save the universe in Grossman's searing sequel toThe Magicians(2009, etc.). It's been two years since Quentin assumed one of Fillory's four crowns along with Eliot and Janet, fellow graduates of the Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, and Quentin's […]
A Stolen Life : a Memoir
The New York Times – Janet Maslin There are novelists, most notably Emma Donoghue in Room, who have tried to imagine what a plight like this is like. There are tabloids that have capitalized on its obscenity. And there are far too many survivors of ghastly crimes who have told their stories in lurid terms […]
Out of My Mind
The Washington Post – Mary Quattlebaum In Melody, author Sharon Draper creates an authentic character who insists, through her lively voice and indomitable will, that the reader become fully involved with the girl in the pink wheelchair. Details such as the messy particulars of Melody's daily routine, her anger over being babied intellectually and the […]
We the Children
Children's Literature – Shirley Nelson This first book in the "Benjamin Pratt and the Keepers of the School" series introduces the reader to middle-schoolers Ben and Jill. In just a few weeks, their school will be destroyed and replaced by a historical amusement park. As Ben hurries to homeroom one day, he sees the school […]
The Shadows
Children's Literature – Shirley Nelson Eleven-year-old Olive Dunwoody is often left to her own devices as her math professor parents spend time on their equations. She spends her time exploring their new home which this time is an old house full of antiques instead of the usual bland apartment. Olive realizes something strange is going […]
Masters of Disaster
Children's Literature – Jean Boreen: Henry worries that he and his friends Riley and Reed "may be the most boring twelve-year-olds on the planet." So Henry talks his friends into joining him on a number of wacky adventures that often put all three friends, but Reed in particular, into some sticky and stinky situations. Henry […]
Ghost Dog Secrets
VOYA – Ursula Adams In Ghost Dog Secrets, award-winning author Peg Kehret takes on the issue of animal abuse and neglect in a story that will appeal to animal lovers. Kehret has written numerous books about the neglect of animals, and Ghost Dog Secrets is another wonderful addition to this category. The main character, Rusty, […]
Burnt Mountain
From one of our most acclaimed writers comes this dramatic tale of a well-born Southern woman whose life is forever changed by the betrayal of her mother and by the man she loves Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp – Camp Sherwood Forest in the […]
Next to Love : a Novel
Library Journal No one knows how hard war can hit a small town better than Bernadette (Babe) Huggins, operator of the Western Union office in South Downs, MA. As the book opens, on a particular day in July 1944, wires from the War Office leave a trail of destruction across her hometown. Babe and her […]