From the bestselling author of In The Time Of The Butterflies and How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, comes The Cemetery of Untold Stories. In this novel, author Alma decides to create a cemetery for the stories she will never finish in her lifetime, after she inherits a plot of land in her native …
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A set of lightly intertwined stories about people from different stages and walks of life who are looking for a new direction to take or are facing change. The characters all end up walking into the small local library, where they are led to Sayuri Komachi, a special librarian, who asks them what they are …
Continue reading What You Are Looking For Is In The Library by Michiko Aoyama
Set in Victorian era London, this is the story of a mysterious and magical travelling carnivale. The Rose family made a pact with the cunning Ashe and Pretorius, owners of the carnival and magicians, that made the family rich, but it was a dark bargain and had a price. Now Odilon Rose, hearing that they …
Continue reading The Carnivale Of Curiosities by Aimee Gibbs
In 1959, an orphan girl slips out of a revival tent and runs away from the sect who controls and crushes her life, unexpectedly finding her way to a house in the woods that's like something out of a fairytale. Sadly, she's soon taken back, but in 1965, and grown up, she flees her abusive …
Since her parent's deaths, Lavender has made money selling flowers grown in the garden that supplied their apothecary shop, along with the orphan boy they took in. It's hard work with little chance of reward, and it looks like she may lose the house and garden, when a chance encounter with a famous medium who …
I love witchy reads, and most especially Practical Magic. Or anything by Alice Hoffman, honestly. Her way of writing takes the everyday and the fairytale and blends them. After all, fairytales were created to help us navigate life and avoid danger. I love how she is able to take you on a journey with her …
I'm so excited to talk about this book with you. Because if you're reading this, you're probably an Alice Hoffman/Practical Magic fan like me, and you're awaiting the new book Magic Lessons, about Maria Owens, the matriarch of the Owens family from Practical Magic, the one who was the first in a long line of …
Jia Jia has been married for 4 years, in a relationship based on practical things like making a family rather than love. When her husband announces that they will go on a trip, Jia Jia goes to pack, only to walk into the bathroom to find her husband dead in the bath tub. He has …
Ada is a mysterious girl who lives apart with her father near a villiage who come to them for their healing arts. Ada and her father are able to put people to sleep and open them up, removing illness and disease, and sometimes they even bury them for a time in the strange Ground that …
In Berlin in 1941, Hanni realises that the world as she knows it is coming to an end. With her mother bed ridden, she chooses to stay by her side and face the end, but is determined to get her 12 year old daughter out before the Nazi's get her. Knowing she can't send her …
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