When Guinevere is promoting her new memoir about her mother, Edith Sharpe, who wrote a huge bestseller book series called the Ninth City, she finds out her estranged brother Ennis, a controversial artist, has a new exhibition coming up called Mother. Their mother's books were about two children that were based on them, making them …
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 …
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 …
