Millwood Village, LC: Large Print Edition

Millwood Village, LC: Large Print Edition
Author: John M. Brewer
Publisher: America Star Books
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2014-08-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781633821392

In this sequel to Matthew Dobbs, Esquire, much to his dismay, Matthew finds himself once again in His Majesty's service for WWII, running for a boat at Dunkirk. But it is a German torpedo boat! Later in El Alamein he learns of his beloved wife's death in the Blitz. In anger he joins a suicide mission. Seriously wounded and heavily sedated, his mind wanders, filled with flashbacks of happier times with the family and their planned community project-Millwood Village. Once deemed fit, this valuable officer is sent "up the ladder" to keep him out of trouble. Promotion comes with perks like furloughs back to Millwood Village where he finds his sister-in-law newly widowed. The ice queen proves to have an inner fire for him."

Millwood Village, LC

Millwood Village, LC
Author: John M. Brewer
Publisher: America Star Books
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2012-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1462698336

In this sequel to Matthew Dobbs, Esquire, much to his dismay, Matthew finds himself once again in His Majesty’s service for WWII, running for a boat at Dunkirk. But it is a German torpedo boat! Later in El Alamein he learns of his beloved wife’s death in the Blitz. In anger he joins a suicide mission. Seriously wounded and heavily sedated, his mind wanders, filled with flashbacks of happier times with the family and their planned community project—Millwood Village. Once deemed fit, this valuable officer is sent “up the ladder” to keep him out of trouble. Promotion comes with perks like furloughs back to Millwood Village where he finds his sister-in-law newly widowed. The ice queen proves to have an inner fire for him.

The Light of the Midnight Stars

The Light of the Midnight Stars
Author: Rena Rossner
Publisher: Redhook
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2021-04-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 031648363X

Experience an evocative combination of fantasy, history, and Jewish folklore in this lush and lyrical fairytale-inspired novel from the author of The Sisters of the Winter Wood. Deep in the Hungarian woods, the sacred magic of King Solomon lives on in his descendants. Gathering under the midnight stars, they perform small miracles and none are more gifted than the great Rabbi Isaac and his three daughters. Hannah, bookish and calm, can coax plants to grow even when the weather is bitterly cold. Sarah, defiant and strong, can control the impulsive nature of fire. And Levana, the fey one, can read the path of the stars to decipher their secrets. But darkness is creeping across Europe, threatening the lives of every Jewish person in every village. Each sister will have to make an impossible choice in an effort to survive—and change the fate of their family forever. Praise for The Light of the Midnight Stars: "Storytelling as spellcasting. Rossner has conjured something vivid and wild and true."—Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies "Rossner creates a lush, immersive world through which the sprawling plot meanders, punctuated by moments of intense grief. The result is as lovely as it is heartbreaking." —Publishers Weekly "Rossner's tale is as lyrical as the slow growth of roots, the quick dance of fire, and the stately procession of the stars. Blending folktale with history, hope with tragedy, its touch will linger on your heart long after you put it down."—Marie Brennan For more from Rena Rossner, check out The Sisters of the Winter Wood.

Briefly, A Delicious Life

Briefly, A Delicious Life
Author: Nell Stevens
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2022-07-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982190965

*A Cosmopolitan Best Book of Summer * One of BuzzFeed’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books* An “exquisite…too lovely to bear” (The New York Times Book Review) debut novel from an award-winning writer: a playful and daring tale about a teenage ghost who falls in love with the writer George Sands. In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she’s been hanging around the monastery since her accidental death, spying on the monks and the townspeople and keeping track of her descendants. Blanca is enchanted the moment she sees George, and the magical novel unfolds as a story of deeply felt, unrequited longing—a teenage ghost pining for a woman who can’t see her and doesn’t know she exists. As George and Chopin, who wear their unconventionality, in George’s case, literally on their sleeves, find themselves in deepening trouble with the provincial, 19th-century villagers, Blanca watches helplessly and reflects on the circumstances of her own death (which involved an ill-advised love affair with a monk-in-training). Charming, original, and emotionally moving, this “deeply wild debut follows the unconventional love triangle” (Cosmopolitan) between George, Chopin, and Blanca—a gorgeous and surprising exploration of artistry, desire, and life after death.

The Mercies

The Mercies
Author: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020-02-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316529222

The women in an Arctic village must survive a sinister threat after all the men are wiped out by a catastrophic storm in this "gripping novel inspired by a real-life witch hunt. . . . Beautiful and chilling" (Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe). When the women take over, is it sorcery or power? Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the skies break into a sudden and reckless storm. All forty of the village’s men were at sea, including Maren’s father and brother, and all forty are drowned in the otherworldly disaster. For the women left behind, survival means defying the strict rules of the island. They fish, hunt, and butcher reindeer—which they never did while the men were alive. But the foundation of this new feminine frontier begins to crack with the arrival of Absalom Cornet, a man sent from Scotland to root out alleged witchcraft. Cornet brings with him the threat of danger—and a pretty, young Norwegian wife named Ursa. As Maren and Ursa are drawn to one another in ways that surprise them both, the island begins to close in on them, with Absalom's iron rule threatening Vardø's very existence. "The Mercies has a pull as sure as the tide. It totally swept me away to Vardø, where grief struck islanders stand tall in the shadow of religious persecution and witch burnings. It's a beautifully intimate story of friendship, love and hope. A haunting ode to self-reliant and quietly defiant women." (Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize winning author of Shuggie Bain)