Frost Falls at the Potting Shed
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
It has always been Maddie Willand‘s dream to take over her father’s plant nursery. But after his sudden death, she is devastated to discover that she might lose The Potting Shed forever. Maddie’s bossy older sister, Sabi, is joint...
- Location(s): Tibet
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): timeless
Chosen for the honour of bonding with a frostsliver – a fragment of the sentient glacier that crests her icy home – Sabira embarks on the dangerous pilgrimage to the top of the mountain. But when a huge avalanche...
- Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Current
When Wildlife Officer Harry Clark is seconded to Cumbria Constabulary to assist in an investigation of sheep rustling, he is unaware that a young police officer from Kirkby Stephen has disappeared in a blizzard. Soon he is joining the...
- Location(s): Mid Wales
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Present day
Detective Meadows investigates a bizarre death in a small Welsh town When the manager of a residential home for adults with learning difficulties is found dead in the freezer, the police investigation must tread carefully. Many of the residents...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Our planet is powered by the oceans, entangled in plants, and home to animals of every colour, shape and size. But in its last true wilderness, our planet is white . . . welcome to our frozen planet. Each...
- Location(s): Colombia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A mesmerizing debut set in Colombia at the height Pablo Escobar’s violent reign about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister...
- Location(s): Massachusetts
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 1840s
Set up in Masschusetts in 1843, the utopian experiment of Fruitlands ended in a fiasco. Its founders, Bronson alcott, a teacher (father of Louisa May Alcott), and Charles Lane, a lifelong vegetarian, hoped to create a second Eden, where...
- Location(s): Milwaukee
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 1800s to present
Solly’s dream is for his son Teddy to one day become a concert violinist. Eventually he comes to understand and to endure the heartbreak of knowing that the dream never will be realized. As Solly watches, life takes Teddy...
- Location(s): Sydney
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): 2000s
Set in Sydney there is a LOT of sex in this book, not for the faint hearted.
- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2nd half 20th century
In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the...
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