Notre-Dame
In this short, spellbinding book, international bestselling author Ken Follett describes the emotions that gripped him when he learned about the fire that threatened to destroy one of the greatest cathedrals in the world—the Notre-Dame de Paris. Follett then tells the story of the cathedral, from its construction to the role it has played across […]
A Single Thread
In 1932, after the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman", one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After […]
Miss Julia Takes the Wheel
When Miss Julia's regular doctor goes on vacation with his wife, leaving a replacement in his stead, Miss Julia is immediately concerned. Never one to miss an opportunity to entertain–or size up–a newcomer, she invites the charming Dr. Don Crawford, and his painfully shy wife, Lauren, to dinner. While Miss Julia and Sam both note […]
Someone Else’s Shoes
A Banquet of Consequences
Library Journal ★ 09/01/2015 George's 19th entry in her series featuring Scotland Yard's DI Thomas Lynley and DS Barbara Havers (after One Evil Act) finds Havers busy keeping her nose clean to protect her job. Lynley worries that her caution is making her a less effective police officer. Meanwhile, she tries to build some semblance […]
The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge
“Lovett has written a delightful sequel to Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. . . . Told in the style of Dickens with a sly wit, this is an excellent companion to the original Christmas classic.” —Library Journal
The Secret Chord
Publishers Weekly 06/22/2015 Brooks’s interest in religious commitment (People of the Book) accrues rich rewards in this ambitious and psychologically astute novel about the harp-playing, psalm-singing King David of the bible. A man of contradictory impulses, David was also a brutal and pitiless warrior living in “a culture of blood revenge.” In his younger years […]
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First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen
Library Journal 09/01/2014 In Lovett's debut novel, The Bookman's Tale, about an antiquarian book dealer, Shakespeare took center stage. This time the author adds bookish intrigue to the life of another luminary of English literature. While the few facts about Jane Austen's life are well known, many scholars have speculated about Austen's experience in love. […]
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 […]