1950's Massachusetts: two very different young women attend Radcliffe College. Ava has grown up shut away from other people on an apple orchard, with her religious and controlling parents who don't want her to know her true self. And Lauren comes from a wealthy family and from a long line of wild women, but after …
The story of a boy whose mother is an actress trying to make a comeback, after a series of crappy relationships and her most famous films are starting to fade into history. In the past, she's shunted her son off to his Grandparents in Ohio to be raised when things get difficult, so he really …
Continue reading There Must Be A Pony (1971) by James Kirkwood
When orphaned Claire's fiance dies of a strange neurological disease, she thinks the happiness and belonging in she finally had in her life is over forever, but then Elias wealthy family invites her for three days to Harrow Point, their private island, for his funeral. Hoping to find the family she so desperately craves, Claire …
Back in 1943, scientists started to receive a mysterious transmission. The created WOT, a small robot, to house this alien communication, and this book houses a collection of documents and case notes of what they learned about this intelligence, as it wanders through our world, noticing the small details of life and sometimes day dreaming! …
Translated by Laurel Taylor. Yuko is an ordinary, happy little girl, though she was raised in an unusual way, with a succession of foster parents, all of whom loved her very much. The book follows a year in her life, as she reaches her last year of high school, and faces moving out into the …
Translated from the French by Hildegard Serle (who also translated other books by this author and Mona's Eyes) Agnes, a filmmaker in France, gets a call one day that her beloved Aunt Colette has died, which is impossible because Agnes attended her Aunt's funeral three years before. She returns to the French provinces where she …
Freya, Aunt Carole and friends return in this third book in the Antique Hunter's Guide series. This time, Freya and Aunt Carole rush to the Scottish Borders to a remote castle, the last known location of a member of the Lockwood Antique Hunter's Agency, Bella, who was investigating a forger before disappearing. Here, they find …
Continue reading Antique Hunter’s Murder At The Castle by CL Miller (Antique Hunter’s #3)
"A memoir of family and crime" At 12, Leslie's childhood home in Ontario was raided by police, and her mother and grandmother took her and fled to Florida. No questions allowed, no explanations given. Her life changed from an idyllic suburban childhood to a confusion of grifts and crime. Decades later, when she thought she'd …
Continue reading The Liar’s Playbook by Leslie Bradford Scott
"Why we dream and what it means for our health." We're currently in a social climate that doesn't value sleep and rest, and rewards busy-ness and productivity. When the author found out that most people aren't sleeping properly and a lot of people aren't hitting REM sleep, and therefore not dreaming, she became fascinated by …
Curtis Paul was in a death metal band 15 years ago that was successful and made some waves, but now he's living the suburban dream, with his wife and kids. When he meets up with his old manager, he realises he misses the life on stage, and the band gets back together, but can he …
Continue reading Death Metal Duck by Justin Heggs and Cam Hayden (graphic novel)
