The Wedding People
The Long Water
The Girl With Glass Feet : a Novel
The New York Times – Robin Romm: The hybrid form of the book?fairy tale, myth, psychological realism and fantasy?impresses. But Shaw's most delightful offerings are the vivid details he provides to make the magical real?The end of the book, saturated with color and emotion, is risky and brave like the message it imparts. Only a […]
Presumed Guilty
The Brightest Star In the Sky
Library Journal This appealing novel by the author of This Charming Man explores the lives and loves of the residents of a Dublin town house by way of a wandering spirit. At its heart are relationships, romantic and familial, and the multigenerational characters have their own individual quirks. Watching each of them grow, change, and […]
The Seer of Shadows
Children's Literature: Horace Carpentine is apprenticed to Mr. Middleditch, a photographer who sometimes inserts ghostly images of loved ones to drum up more business from the grief-stricken. When he sends Horace to help him with his latest scam, Horace is shocked to realize that one of his photographs contains the image of Eleanora, a girl […]
The Magic Thief. Book One
VOYA One fateful evening, Conn attempts to pick the pocket of an old man wandering the streets of Wellmet. Conn discovers that he has removed a locus magicalicus, the magical stone of a wizard. Such stones and wizards are common enough in Wellmet; however, this wizard is not ordinary: Nevery has been banished from Wellmet […]
The Truth About Horses, Friends, and My Life As a Coward
School Library Journal: Gr 4-7?Though most girls love horses, Sophie has had only negative experiences with them. Mom had purchased a pony several years ago for Sophie's older sister to ride, but Really turned out to be a mean-spirited biter. Sweetheart, a trick-playing Arabian, and Fancy Free, a huge and intimidating Western Buckskin, were acquired […]
Scat
The New York Times – David Pogue Not many authors are equally successful at writing books for adults and children, but Carl Hiaasen seems to have made an effortless transition?His latest, Scat, won't disappoint Hiaasenphiles of any age?the ingenious plotting makes Scat more engrossing than either of its predecessors. The characters are richer?two of them […]
Lost
Children's Literature The second book in "The Magic Thief" trilogy continues the story of Connwaer, a young pickpocket-turned-wizard's apprentice. After his locus stone is destroyed saving the city of Wellmet from a dangerous machine, Conn needs to find another way to communicate with the magic of the city. Unfortunately, the only way he can do […]