by envisionmg | Aug 27, 2021 | Patron Recommendations
“When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis—known as Jack—she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasn’t holding together her crumbling marriage. Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed ill-matched for an...
by envisionmg | Aug 12, 2021 | Fiction, Patron Recommendations
The patron’s comment: “That was so good!” About Hour of the Witch: “Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World,...
by envisionmg | Jul 26, 2021 | Fiction, Patron Recommendations
Patron’s comment: “Mrs. Roberts outdid herself with Legacy. She held my attention so well. I can’t say enough about this book.” About the book: “Adrian Rizzo was seven when she met her father for the first time. That was the day he nearly...
by envisionmg | Jul 14, 2021 | Fiction, Patron Recommendations
Our patron said The Maidens was “really good, one of those page turners.” “Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored...
by envisionmg | Apr 5, 2021 | Patron Recommendations
The Witch Boy – Molly Knox Ostertag (ebook) “In thirteen-year-old Aster’s family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to be shapeshifters. Anyone who dares cross those lines is exiled. Unfortunately for Aster, he still...
by envisionmg | Mar 8, 2021 | Patron Recommendations
Keeper of the Lost Cities – Shannon Messenger (ebook) “Twelve-year-old Sophie has never quite fit into her life. She’s skipped multiple grades and doesn’t really connect with the older kids at school, but she’s not comfortable with her family, either. The...
