by Peabody Institute Library | Nov 10, 2011 | Non-fiction, Patron Recommendations
Publisher’s Summary: “When Harry de Leyer first spotted Snowman, the future jumping champion was a scarred plow-horse being toted away to the slaughterhouse. Something about this regal outcast attracted the Dutch immigrant’s attention; he bought the...
by Peabody Institute Library | Aug 28, 2011 | Fiction, Patron Recommendations, Summer Reading
Publisher’s Summary: “For the Kellehers, Maine is a place where children run in packs, showers are taken outdoors, and old Irish songs are sung around a piano. Their beachfront property, won on a barroom bet after the war, sits on three acres of sand and...
by Peabody Institute Library | Aug 10, 2011 | Patron Recommendations
Publisher’s Summary: “A riveting true crime story that vividly recounts the birth of modern forensics.At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher, known and feared as “The Killer of Little Shepherds,” terrorized the French...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jul 24, 2011 | Patron Recommendations
Publisher’s Summary: “When the Templeton family takes up residence in an imposing and long-empty manor in the countryside of Victoria, Australia, the locals begin to buzz with gossip. The seven Templetons moved from England and seem unusual, peculiar...
by Peabody Institute Library | Jul 15, 2011 | Patron Recommendations
Publisher’s Summary: “One of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West. She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in The Good Earth, an overnight worldwide bestseller...
by Peabody Institute Library | Sep 30, 2010 | Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Patron Recommendations, Staff Picks
Harm None ~ M. R. Sellars Rowan Gant, self-proclaimed witch, is brought in to help his best friend, Detective Ben Storm, solve a brutal murder that involves elements of Witchcraft. As the number of horribly gruesome murders grows, Rowan is drawn into relentless...
