Everything the reviewers and publishers say about this book is true – stunning, remarkable, compassionately reimagined, thoroughly absorbing. About real life 19th century fossil hunter Mary Anning who made amazing discoveries in fossils 50 years before Darwin wrote Origin of Spe

This title was voted a mystery book group favorite at the July 2nd meeting.  What makes it special? The oddly named protagonist, fearless 59 year old Brigid Quinn, ex-FBI agent, who destroys serial killer Gerald in the first few pages. His sick fantasies of her as a hard of hearing, &

JBC  Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggl

afk Hennie Comfort is eighty-six and has lived in the mountains of Middle Swan, Colorado since before it was Colorado. Nit Spindle is just seventeen and newly married. She and her husband have just moved to the high country in search of work. It’s 1936 and the depression has rav

bll In 1913, before there is a rumor of war in Europe, two lifelong friends from Ballyrannel in the Irish midlands, Matthias “Matt” Wrenn and Con Hatchel, decide to see the world at the expense of the king of England and join the British army. A year later, while en route

sjw Try this, or any Hamish Macbeth mystery on audio. The narrator, Graeme Malcolm, brings the characters, residents of the fictional Scottish town of Lochdubh and various outsiders, to life. It’s a sure bet for your next car trip or window washing job.

AFK – The fifth gripping and beautifully written entry in A. D. Scott’s mystery series finds star journalist John McAllister caught up in the razor-gang warfare of 1950s Glasgow. A. D. Scott’s extraordinary mystery novels have been called “beautifully written and atmospheric” (N

BLL – “Bay Singer has bigger secrets than most. Now that she knows about them. Her mother, Nan, is sure that the burden of those secrets would be to much, and that’s why she’s never told anyone the truth, not even Bay. There’s a lot that Nan’s kept

DM -“Urban gardeners. Native seed-saving collectives. Ecovillage developments. What is the connection between these seemingly disparate groups? The ecological design system of permaculture is the common thread that weaves them into a powerful, potentially revolutionary—or reevol

JBC – “Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins delivers the long awaited tale of his wild life and times, both at home and around the globe. Tom Robbins’ warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels—including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Per