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Silverswift

No One is Ever Too Old for Fairy Tales Author: Natalie Lloyd Eliza is tired of her mom’s city apartment and new boyfriend. She longs for the imagination, wildness, and fun of her grandmother’s beach house and the accompanying stories about mermaids and magic. When a letter comes from Nana Mora, begging Eliza to come spend some time with her, it’s a call to adventure that cannot be refused. What results is a tale of life and love, a story about choices and loyalties imbued with the beauty of nostalgia and the sweeping epic of a generation of dreams. Silverswift is [...]

2021-12-31T10:39:41-07:00December 25th, 2021|Tags: , |

Arsenic and Adobo

This Year's Best New Cozy Mystery Series Author: Mia P. Manansala Lila Macapagal does not want to be in her stifling, small hometown again with her well meaning but old fashioned, matchmaker Aunties. But the family restaurant needs her help. She’s also running from the fall-out of a very bad breakup. When one of her old ex-boyfriends, infamous local food critic Derek, shows up to start dishing some bad publicity and instead ends up dying in the middle of her restaurant, Lila’s bad luck multiplies. Detective Park is sure Lila had an axe to grind with her ex, and when he [...]

2021-12-31T10:47:36-07:00December 14th, 2021|Tags: , |

Bleak House

Of Greed and Law Author: Charles Dickens Charles Dickens has been my favorite author since grade-school, when I first encountered his lyrical prose and deep, sometimes acerbic understanding of humanity in David Copperfield. Since then, I’ve read more of Dickens’ work (although not as much as I would like). Following his trail through the most famous first (A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, Old Curiosity Shop), I arrived at Bleak House – a novel that many claim is Dickens’ most powerful. This story starts in the courts with the long running Jarndyce and Jarndyce, a complicated case involving wills and inheritances. Dickens [...]

2021-12-31T10:56:04-07:00November 19th, 2021|Tags: , |
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