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The Borrowers Afield is the second book in the Borrowers series by Mary Norton and continues both the story of the Clock family and the story of young Kate and Mrs. May. It picks up about a year after Mrs. May first told Kate about the borrowers when Mrs. May inherits some property from her…
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Story by James McBride is a sad, poignant and moving novel. The story opens with a body being discovered when some construction is started and there is some difficulty identifying the body though many in the area seem to have some idea how it got there. It then goes back…
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Sword Catcher is the first book in the Chronicles of Castellane by Cassandra Clare. Kel is a young man who serves Prince Conor of Castellane as his swordcatcher. This means that he is part companion, part bodyguard and body double in order to protect Conor to the best of his ability. Lin is a young…
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The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters is the sequel to The Last Hours and continues the story of Develish. It picks up shortly after the end of the previous book with Lady Anne trying to help her daughter Eleanor with her unexpected and unplanned pregnancy, while also helping the other inhabitants of Develish. The…
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Trying to figure out who you are. A bit of a noble goal that also happens to be the primary them of Taran Wanderer, book four of the Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander. The hero of the series, young Taran, has realized that he is in love with the princess Eilonwy and would like to…
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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand is a complex and multi-layered novel. It tells the story of Dagny Taggert, a young woman who is the vice-president of operations for Taggert Transcontinental which is the family train company. She is an efficient and capable person in a world that seems to be run by inefficient and incapable…
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The Mayfair Bookshop by Eliza Knight is an interesting piece of historical fiction. It tells the story of Nancy Mitford, a socialite in 1930’s and 40’s London, and Lucy St. Clair, a modern day book curator who travels to London to work. Nancy Mitford’s story starts in the early 30’s and covers how she works…
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Deadly Décisions is the third Temperance Brennan novel by Kathy Reichs. This time around she is getting involved in the biker gang scene when she is asked to identify the remains of identical twin bikers, something that is rather difficult, and becomes determined to help as the explosion that caused their deaths also killed a…
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The end to yet another great series. Gregor and the Code of Claw is the fifth and final book in The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins. The story opens directly after the end of the previous book, Gregor and the Marks of Secret, as Gregor deals with warning Regalia for the coming war with the…
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The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory is the first book in The Plantagenet and Tudor series. It tells the story of Jacquetta, the young daughter of a French nobleman whose family has given shelter to the maid Joan. When Joan is turned over to the English, Jacquetta also finds herself with the English…
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