by Peabody Institute Library | Oct 14, 2010 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Staff Picks
Juliet is the debut novel by Anne Fortier and what a grand debut it is. For those of you who are Romeo and Juliet purists, a word of warning; while there are many similarities, there are also just as many differences such as instead of the story being set in Verona it...
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...
by Peabody Institute Library | Sep 21, 2010 | Fantasy, Fiction, Staff Picks
A tale about English villagers who are of elvish lineage. They are trapped in the human world because the gate to the other world is closed. The quest to open the gate has as many convolutions as a soap opera: there are star-crossed lovers, suspense and mystery. There...
by Peabody Institute Library | Sep 1, 2010 | Staff Picks
Publisher’s Summary: “New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they...
by ta | Apr 21, 2010 | Fiction, Mystery, Staff Picks
In the summer of 1921, English society is fascinated by the spiritual world – perhaps no one more than the great mystery writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, one of thirteen eager guests at a weekend party and seance in a stately Devon manor house steeped in history...
by ta | Jan 28, 2010 | Fiction, Staff Picks
Matt Younger is a 30-year-old boat delivery captain, who returns to Amelia Island, Florida from the Dominican Republic to make a confession to his dying father. With two companions, a cook named Jesse, and Phillip, a French mechanic, Matt tells his father how he set...
