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Learned By Heart: A Novel
Par Emma Donoghue. 2023
A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply and dangerously in love…
at boarding school in nineteenth century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister’s five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for Young Ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen.Emotionally intense, psychologically compelling and deeply researched, Learned by Heart is an extraordinary work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest storytellers. Full of passion and heartbreak, the tangled lives of Anne Lister and Eliza Raine form a love story for the ages.Alphabetical Diaries
Par Sheila Heti. 2024
Sheila Heti collected 500,000 words from a decade's worth of journals, put the sentences in a spreadsheet, and sorted them…
alphabetically. She cut and cut and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.A Secret Music
Par Susan Doherty Hannaford. 2015
Word Guild Award for Best Young Adult fiction 2016 Grace Irwin Award 2016 Literary Classics silver medal for Y/A fiction…
2016 Shortlisted for the Frank Hegyi Award-Ottawa Independent Writers Literary Classics silver medal for High school fiction 2017 Set in 1936 Montreal, A Secret Music is the story of Lawrence Nolan, a sensitive fifteen-year-old piano prodigy who grows up in the shadow of his mother’s mental illness. Forced to keep this shameful secret, he attempts to raise himself and his ten year old brother. He counteracts the deep ache and creeping mistrust caused by his mother’s emotional absence by escaping into the intense realm of Chopin and Schubert, the only language he understands. When his brother becomes ill, he is left with enormous responsibilities. At a piano competition in Montreal, Lawrence makes a climactic decision that puts his future on hold in order to salvage his family life. In A Secret Music, Susan Doherty Hannaford re-creates the Depression-Era world of Montreal and demonstrates how music can redeem a life.Lightning Lou
Par Lori Weber. 2016
When a team in an all-girls’ hockey league comes to recruit players, twelve-year-old Lou’s dreams seem to be coming true.…
But the dreams hinge on one thing: never letting on that Lou is a boy. But the road to stardom is not easy, as Lou discovers that the competition is fierce, and that he’s got a lot of work to do to match the skills of the league’s star player and his chief rival, Albertine Lapensée. All the while, he has to keep his secret, and wrestle with the moral dilemma of taking a place on the team away from a deserving girl. Loosely based on a true story, Lightning Lou is a riveting and thought-provoking story for middle-grade readers.The Fury of Beijing: An Ava Lee Novel: The Triad Years (An Ava Lee Novel #16)
Par Ian Hamilton. 2024
Palabra de reina
Par Gema Bonnín. 2023
La novela sobre la vida y el poder de Catalina de Aragón. En su debut en la novela histórica, Gema…
Bonnín nos regala por fin las palabras de una reina silenciada en vida que fue, en términos de Shakespeare, «la reina de todas las reinas». UNA MUJER QUE LUCHÓ CONTRA TODO Y TODOS Catalina, la última hija de los Reyes Católicos, ha sido durante años un personaje olvidado en España. Sin embargo, en Inglaterra, donde residió desde la adolescencia para casarse con el rey de esas tierras, se convirtió en una leyenda. UNA REINA QUE FORJÓ SU PROPIO DESTINO Este es el relato de una joven solitaria que llegó a ser la primera embajadora de Europa, una mujer que no vaciló ante el poder del mismísimo rey, provocando un gran cisma con la Iglesia católica, y una madre que nunca dejó de luchar por su única hija.UNA NOVELA QUE NOS DESCUBRE LA VOZ SILENCIADA DE CATALINA DE ARAGÓN Desde el castillo de Kimbolton, donde aguarda el final de su vida, Catalina nos narra las peligrosas intrigas de la corte y el asfixiante egoísmo de Enrique VIII, así como lo que la llevó a hacerse con el favor del pueblo inglés.The Reformatory: A Novel
Par Tananarive Due. 2023
A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he&’s sent to a segregated…
reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.Gracetown, Florida June 1950 Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie&’s journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother has become a window to the truth of what happens at the reformatory. Boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, but the haints Robbie sees hint at worse things. Through his friends Redbone and Blue, Robbie is learning not just the rules but how to survive. Meanwhile, Gloria is rallying every family member and connection in Florida to find a way to get Robbie out before it&’s too late. The Reformatory is a haunting work of historical fiction written as only American Book Award–winning author Tananarive Due could, by piecing together the life of the relative her family never spoke of and bringing his tragedy and those of so many others at the infamous Dozier School for Boys to the light in this riveting novel.Sing Down the Moon: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
Par Scott O'Dell. 1970
Newbery Honor BookIn this powerful novel based on historical events, the Navajo tribe's forced march from their homeland to Fort…
Sumner is dramatically and courageously narrated by young Bright Morning.Like the author's Newbery Medal-winning classic Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell's Sing Down the Moon is a gripping tale of survival, strength, and courage.Dirty Thirty: Stephanie Plum 30 (Stephanie Plum)
Par Janet Evanovich. 2023
The irresistible new Stephanie Plum mystery from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. Stephanie Plum, Trenton's…
most underappreciated bounty hunter, is on the trail of a stolen cache of dirty diamonds.Stephanie's new assignment seems simple enough. A local jeweller wants her to locate his former security guard, who he is convinced has stolen a fortune in diamonds. Stephanie is also looking for another man arrested for robbing the same jewellery store on the same day.With her boyfriend Morelli away on police business, Stephanie is taking care of Morelli's giant orange dog, who will devour anything, including the upholstery in Stephanie's car. Morelli's absence means the inscrutable, irresistible security expert Ranger is front and centre in Stephanie's life when things go sideways. And he seems determined to stay there.An overnight stakeout with Stephanie's mother and Grandma Mazur reveals three generations of women with nerves of steel and driving skills worthy of the most daring stock-car champions.As the body count rises and witnesses disappear, it's not easy for Stephanie to keep herself clean when everyone else is playing dirty. It's a good thing Stephanie isn't afraid of getting a little dirty, too.Praise for Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels'Plum remains outspoken, brave, and definitely one-of-a-kind... a hilariously madcap, action-packed caper filled with crazy twists and some nail-biting suspense' Booklist'Romantic and gripping' Good Housekeeping'A laugh-out-loud page-turner' HeatEdith Holler: A Novel
Par Edward Carey. 2023
The witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse—and the mysterious figure who threatens…
the theater's very survivalThe year is 1901. England&’s beloved queen has died, and her aging son has finally taken the throne. In the eastern city of Norwich, bright and inquisitive young Edith Holler spends her days among the boisterous denizens of the Holler Theatre, warned by her domineering father that the playhouse will literally tumble down if she should ever leave its confines. Fascinated by tales of the city she knows only from afar, she decides to write a play of her own: a stage adaptation of the legend of Mawther Meg, a monstrous figure said to have used the blood of countless children to make the local delicacy known as Beetle Spread. But when her father suddenly announces his engagement to a peculiar, imposing woman named Margaret Unthank, heir to the actual Beetle Spread fortune, Edith scrambles to protect her father, the theatre, and her play—the one thing that&’s truly hers—from the newcomer&’s sinister designs.Teeming with unforgettable characters and illuminated by the author&’s trademark fantastical illustrations, Edith Holler is a surprisingly modern fable of one young woman&’s struggle to escape her family&’s control—and to reveal inconvenient truths about the way children are used.The Dearly Beloved: A Novel
Par Cara Wall. 2019
&“This gentle, gorgeously written book may be one of my favorites ever.&” —Jenna Bush Hager (A Today show &“Read with…
Jenna&” Book Club Selection!) This &“moving portrait of love and friendship set against a backdrop of social change&” (The New York Times Book Review, Editor&’s Choice) traces two married couples whose lives become entangled when the husbands become copastors at a famed New York city congregation in the 1960s.Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart. Charles is destined to succeed his father as an esteemed professor of history at Harvard, until an unorthodox lecture about faith leads him to ministry. How then, can he fall in love with Lily—fiercely intellectual, elegantly stern—after she tells him with certainty that she will never believe in God? And yet, how can he not? James, the youngest son in a hardscrabble Chicago family, spent much of his youth angry at his alcoholic father and avoiding his anxious mother. Nan grew up in Mississippi, the devout and beloved daughter of a minister and a debutante. James&’s escape from his desperate circumstances leads him to Nan and, despite his skepticism of hope in all its forms, her gentle, constant faith changes the course of his life. In The Dearly Beloved, Cara wall reminds us of &“the power of the novel in its simplest, richest form: bearing intimate witness to human beings grappling with their faith and falling in love,&” (Entertainment Weekly, A-) as we follow these two couples through decades of love and friendship, jealousy and understanding, forgiveness and commitment. Against the backdrop of turbulent changes facing the city and the church&’s congregation, Wall offers a poignant meditation on faith and reason, marriage and children, and the ways we find meaning in our lives. The Dearly Beloved is a gorgeous, wise, and provocative novel that is destined to become a classic.The Lost History of Dreams: A Novel
Par Kris Waldherr. 2019
A post-mortem photographer unearths dark secrets from the past that may hold the key to his future in this &“sensual,…
twisting gothic tale…in the tradition of A.S. Byatt&’s Possession, Diane Setterfield&’s The Thirteenth Tale, and Emily Bronte&’s Wuthering Heights&” (BookPage).All love stories are ghost stories in disguise. &“This one happily succeeds at both&” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). When famed Byronesque poet Hugh de Bonne is discovered dead in his bath one morning, his cousin Robert Highstead, a post-mortem photographer, is charged with a simple task: transport Hugh&’s remains for burial in a chapel. This chapel, a stained-glass folly set on the moors, was built by de Bonne sixteen years earlier to house the remains of his beloved wife and muse, Ada. Since then, the chapel has been locked and abandoned, a pilgrimage site for the rabid fans of de Bonne&’s last book, The Lost History of Dreams. However, Ada&’s grief-stricken niece refuses to open the glass chapel for Robert unless he agrees to her bargain: before he can lay Hugh to rest, Robert must record Isabelle&’s story of Ada and Hugh&’s ill-fated marriage over the course of five nights. As the mystery of Ada and Hugh&’s relationship unfolds, so too does the secret behind Robert&’s own marriage—including that of his fragile wife, Sida, who has not been the same since a tragic accident three years earlier and the origins of his morbid profession that has him seeing things he shouldn&’t...things from beyond the grave. Blurring the line between the past and the present, truth and fiction, and ultimately, life and death, The Lost History of Dreams is &“a surrealist, haunting tale of suspense where every prediction turns out to be merely a step toward a bigger reveal&” (Booklist).Cat Spitting Mad: A Joe Grey Mystery (The Joe Grey Mysteries #6)
Par Shirley Rousseau Murphy. 2001
Hell hath no fury like a feline enraged. Though Joe Greyand Dulcie are merely housecats, they each have astrong sense…
of justice -- to complement their uncannyability to read, speak, and use the telephone. And they'refurious that Max Harper, police chief of Molena Pointand preferred target for Joe's harmless pranks, has beenaccused of a gruesome double murder.The fleet-footed sleuthing duo is intent upon restoringan old friend's good name. But finding the missing littlegirl who was sole witness to the crime won't be easy -- especially with a hungry cougar on the prowl, a cat-killeron the loose ... and the kittenish antics of Joe and Dulcie'splayful new "ward" causing big trouble that could takemore than nine lives to survive.A Ghostly Murder: A Ghostly Southern Mystery (Ghostly Southern Mysteries)
Par Tonya Kappes. 2015
This psychic undertaker knows there’s only one cure for a bad case of murder. Fourth in the cozy paranormal mystery…
series following A Ghostly Demise.I told you I was sick, reads the headstone above Mamie Sue Preston’s grave. She was the richest woman in Sleepy Hollow, Kentucky, and also the biggest hypochondriac. Ironic, considering someone killed her—and covered it up perfectly. And how does Emma Lee, proprietor of the Eternal Slumber Funeral Home, know all this? Because Mamie Sue’s ghost told her, that’s how. And she’s offering big bucks to find the perp.The catch is, Mamie Sue was buried by the Raines family’s archrival, Burns Funeral Home. Would the Burnses stoop to framing Emma Lee’s granny? With an enterprising maid, a penny-pinching pastor, and a slimy Lexington lawyer all making a killing off Mamie Sue’s estate, Emma Lee needs a teammate—like her dreamboat boyfriend, Sheriff Jack Henry Ross. Because with millions at stake, snooping around is definitely bad for Emma Lee’s health.Charmed to Death: An Ophelia and Abby Mystery (The Ophelia & Abby Mysteries #3)
Par Shirley Damsgaard. 2006
Ophelia Jensen's good witch granny Abigail revels in her paranormal powers. But Ophelia never asked for her bothersome psychic abilities…
-- especially since they proved worthless when the thirty-something librarian's best friend Brian was murdered by a still-unknown assailant.Now, five years later, another friend is gone, killed in almost identical fashion. Even dear old Abby isn't safe, distracted as she is by her fight to prevent a massive, mega-polluting pig-farming operation from invading their small Iowa town. And Ophelia can't count on her snarling, scoffing nemesis, police detective Henry Comacho, to get the job done, so she'll have to take matters into her own hands. Because a common thread to the crimes -- and a possible next victim -- is suddenly becoming troublingly apparent . . . and it's Ophelia Jensen herself!Laughed 'Til He Died: A Death On Demand Mystery (The Death on Demand Mysteries Series #20)
Par Carolyn Hart. 2010
“Carolyn Hart is one of the most popular practitioners of the traditional mystery.”—Cleveland Plain DealerReturn to Broward’s Rock in Laughed…
’Til He Died, Carolyn Hart’s landmark 20th novel in her much loved and critically acclaimed Death on Demand mystery series. Island sleuths Annie and Max Darling must solve three related local murders in this wonderful new whodunit by the multiple Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award-winner—a must for fans of Diane Mott Davidson and Lillian Jackson Braun.Cat Seeing Double: A Joe Grey Mystery (The Joe Grey Mysteries #8)
Par Shirley Rousseau Murphy. 2003
Romance is in the air in the charming seaside village of Molena Point, California. Everyone is excited about the upcoming…
wedding of its chief of police to the lovely Charlie Getz, even cool feline detective Joe Grey. But the festivities are interrupted when two uninvited guests try to blow up the church. Then one of the bride's good friends, building contractor Ryan Flannery, lands in a heap of trouble when her philandering husband is found dead. With suspicion falling on Ryan's shoulders, Joe Grey and his pals, Dulcie and Kit, set out to prove her innocence. Soon paw–deep in a tangle of jealousy, greed, and vengeance, Joe Grey, Dulcie, and Kit find themselves in the biggest cat fight of their lives –– a bare–clawed battle with a prey who is as cunning as he is deadly . . .Cold in the Earth: A Di Fleming Thriller (The Di Fleming Thrillers #1)
Par Aline Templeton. 2005
A quiet farming town where all they reap is death … A corpse, a missing girl, and a mysterious family's…
dangerous obsession with bull running provide a sinister backdrop to Detective Inspector Marjory Fleming's first murder investigation. To find the killer, DI Fleming must unearth an evil presence that has long been in hiding, all the while praying that her very first case will not be her last … This terrifying and atmospheric mystery will thrill lovers of Tana French and Carol O'Connell.A Bride by Moonlight (Fraternitas Aureae Crucis #8)
Par Liz Carlyle. 2012
Fourth in the Victorian romance series from the New York Times-bestselling author who sets up “sizzling encounters . . . [and] keeps the…
reader guessing” (Historical Novel Society).Passion and secrets simmer behind the elegant façade of Victorian London in A Bride by Moonlight, another deliciously intriguing romance by Liz Carlyle that features the dangerous men of the mysterious St. James Society.Faced with murder charges, Lisette Colburne never imagined aligning herself with Scotland Yard—not with the scandalous life she’s led. But when Commissioner Royden Napier proposes—that in exchange for her freedom—she pretend to be his wife so he can unravel a brutal mystery, she agrees. What neither counts on is their intoxicating, undeniable attraction.Sexy and action-packed, Liz Carlyle’s A Bride by Moonlight is a beautiful love story set in Victorian high society with compelling characters and elegant, emotional prose that will appeal to readers of historical romance.Praise for the Fraternitas Aureae Crucis series“Intriguing . . . engaging . . . an illicit delight.” —Stephanie Laurens, #1 New York Times–bestselling author “Liz Carlyle weaves passion and intrigue with a master’s touch.” —Karen Robards, New York Times–bestselling authorMartyr: The First John Shakespeare Mystery (John Shakespeare Mystery Ser. #1)
Par Rory Clements. 2009
A court spy must stop the assassination of Sir Francis Drake while solving a royal murder in this gritty Elizabethan…
mystery—an “excellent debut” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).England, 1587. Tensions run high in the court of Elizabeth I. Within days the axe could fall on the neck of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Spain is already gathering a battle fleet to avenge her.At the center of the storm is John Shakespeare, chief intelligencer in the secret service of Sir Francis Walsingham. When an intercept reveals a plot to assassinate England’s “sea dragon,” Francis Drake, Shakespeare is ordered to protect him. Busy fitting out his ships on land, Drake is frighteningly vulnerable. If he dies, England will be open to invasion.From the splendor and intrigue of the royal court to the sleek warships of Her Majesty’s Navy and the teeming brothels of Southwark, Shakespeare soon learns that nothing is as it seems . . .