Monkey Wars
Richard Kurti When the Langur monkey troop rises to power on the dusty streets of Calcutta, it is at a price. A brutal massacre drives the Rhesus troop out of the place they called home and forces them to embark…
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father…
Nantucket Blue
Leila Howland For Cricket Thompson, a summer like this one will change everything. A summer spent on Nantucket with her best friend, Jules Clayton, and the indomitable Clayton family. A summer when she’ll make the almost unattainable Jay Logan hers.…
My Kindle Romance: Novellas
I think that it is fair to say that I have a teeny tiny book addiction *hides To Be Read pile and credit card statements.* But my addiction doesn’t stop at stock piling books in case of a zombie apocalypse.…
Why I Chose to Set My Novel on Nantucket
We are delighted to host the latest stop on Leila Howland‘s blog tour for her debut novel, Nantucket Blue. For Cricket Thompson, a summer like this one will change everything. A summer spent on Nantucket with her best friend, Jules…
Peaches for Monsieur le Cure
Joanne Harris A welcome return to the village in rural France that was the setting for Joanne Harris’s remarkable and much-loved number one bestseller Chocolat. It isn’t often you receive a letter from the dead. When Vianne Rocher receives a…
The Resistance
Gemma Malley The year is 2140. Having escaped the horrors of Grange Hall, Peter and Anna are living freely on the Outside, trying hard to lead normal lives, but unable to leave the terror of the Declaration—and their experiences as…
The Long Earth
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter Normally, when there was nothing to do, he listened to the Silence. The Silence was very faint here. Almost drowned out by the sounds of the mundane world. Did people in this polished building understand…
The Sweetest Dark
Shana Abe “With every fiber of my being, I yearned to be normal. To glide through my days at Iverson without incident. But I’d have to face the fact that my life was about to unfold in a very, very…
Carnegie and Greenaway: In Darkness
Nick Lake Listen. You’re the voices in the dark so the world can’t all be gone. There must be people left. I’m going to tell you how I got here and how I got this bullet in my arm. I’m…
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