- Location(s): Wisconsin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): early 2000s
Book 1 in series, Followed by Autumn’s Shadow, Summer’s End, Spring’s Storm, Mistletoe and Sage and Loving Winter Romance and mystery in a small Wisconsin town during a record-breaking snowy winter. Smashed heirlooms, ripped upholstery and rifled drawers–who is...
- Location(s): Tasmania
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Jessica is a PhD candidate living in southernmost Tasmania, studying the activity of the glow worms that inhabit Winter Cave, an untouched haven she discovered herself. Aside from study and work, Jessica spends most of her time with her...
- Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): mid 20th century
Grieving widow, Kay Partridge and her daughter Evie, unable to face the oncoming Christmas festivities, move into a cottage at majestic Wintergill Farm in the Yorkshire Dales. Kay wants to shut the door and forget about everything. Evie, struggling...
- Location(s): Wisconsin
- Genre(s): Photography, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1890-1910
First published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by a Black River Falls photographer, Charles Van...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Biography, Crime
- Era(s): 1950s-80s
Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill–the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows...
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s onwards
Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes — and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother’s...