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Serendipity

By Louise Shaffer - Published 2009

Genres:

Serendipity is an intergenerational coming-of-age story set in the present day. The main heroine is Carrie Manning who has just lost her mother, ...Read Review

The Lost Quilter

By Jennifer Chiaverini - Published 2009

Genres:

Epic

More than one story must be repeatedly told so that we remember! In a northern American town, Sylvia Bergstrom discovers a packet of ...Read Review

A Secret Alchemy

By Emma Darwin - Published 2008 (UK)Published 2009 (US)

Genres:

Literary

A Secret Alchemy is a book of three parts and three voices. First there is Una Pryor, brought up, after the death of ...Read Review

The Mystery of the Fool and the Vanisher

By David and Ruth Ellwand - Published 2008

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

This gorgeously designed book is a journal-within-a-journal, the story of a modern-day photographer who finds the papers and photographs of a Victorian faerie ...Read Review

The Pagan House

By David Flusfeder - Published 2008

Genres:

Literary

Thirteen-year-old Eddie Pagan (or Edgar as he prefers to be called) travels from London to New York State to visit his paternal grandmother, ...Read Review

The Book of Love

By Kathleen McGowan - Published 2009

Genres:

Adventure

Estranged both from the man she loves and her brother, Maureen Pascal requires their assistance to unravel Matilda of Tuscany’s biography and ...Read Review

October Skies

By Alex Scarrow - Published 2008

Genres:

Thriller

In the spring of 1857, a starving man dressed in rags emerges from the forest surrounding a small American town. All he can tell ...Read Review

A Whispered Name

By William Brodrick - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Father Anselm, a bee-keeping monk of Larkwood Monastery in Suffolk, receives two visitors who wish to see a now deceased monk, Herbert Moore. ...Read Review

The Temptation of the Night Jasmine

By Lauren Willig -

Genres:

Romance

Fifth in Willig’s “Pink Carnation” series, this latest outing finds historian Eloise Kelly sidetracked in her search for the floral spy of ...Read Review