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Walled Garden, The

My wild heart . . . my walled heart Author: Robin Farrar Maass Lucy Silver is a fish out of water. A young graduate student with an unfortunate (much regretted and inescapable) relationship with her dissertation professor, Lucy is looking to solve a mystery in her family and make her way in the world. Instead, she finds herself chasing the ghosts of what might have been. Lucy has followed the legacy of famed poet and gardener Elizabeth Blackspear to her historic estate and gardens in Bolton Lacey.  For Lucy, Elizabeth isn’t just a historical figure with a tragic back-story, a woman [...]

2022-04-12T09:20:55-07:00April 6th, 2022|Tags: |

Red and the Black, The

Power and Self Destruction Author: Stendhal Julien Sorel may not have a high station in society yet, but he will. His intelligence is matched by his brutal determination to be somebody, either by entering a church career or becoming someone in the military. How he gets there doesn’t matter. Getting there – being the most intelligent, the most powerful, the most sought after, having that lofty station is all that matters. If Julien has to leave a few broken people in his wake, then so be it. Life is a game and he is determined to play it to the max. [...]

2022-07-26T08:45:14-07:00March 27th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |

Darkness on the Edge of Town

It's The End of the World As We Know It Author: Brian Keene What would you do if you woke up one morning and it was still dark? What would you do if there was no sun, no stars, no sky, just an all pervading, limitless night that keeps lasting and lasting? What would you do if you were stranded in a small town, cut off, and you didn’t even know if the rest of the world existed anymore? For Robbie and his girlfriend Christie, these what-ifs are a reality. They woke up to no sun, no birds, just a small, [...]

2022-07-26T08:46:42-07:00March 27th, 2022|Tags: , , , , |
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