The Lilac House

The Lilac House
Author: Anita Nair
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 031260677X

"The Lilac House" reveals how a cookbook writer and a cyclone expert cross paths in a small beachside village to uniquely help each other uncover the truth about the secrets of their pasts and the promise of the future.

The Lilac House

The Lilac House
Author: Barbara Josselsohn
Publisher: Forever
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2022-11-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781538709689

Summer brought Anna and Aidan together, but can she finally let go of the past for a chance at a new beginning? Lilac House has always been a source of comfort for Anna Harris. Though things will never be the same since her husband's death, she knows the cottage, nestled in Lake Summers in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains, will be the perfect place for her and her two children to build a new life. The house is just as beautiful as Anna remembers, and soon she's caught up in the rhythm of small-town life, helping her Aunt Hope run the little shop on Main Street and beginning to finally feel like herself again. Then she meets Aidan. Handsome, strong and quiet, he also knows what it's like to lose someone. In each other they recognize something they've both been missing...and a spark of undeniable attraction. But Aidan's past holds a different set of complications. He's hiding a secret about why he came to Lake Summers. And just as the Lilac House starts to feel like home, Anna learns something devastating about her husband's death that will make her question everything she's always known to be true.

Murder at Lilac Cottage

Murder at Lilac Cottage
Author: John Rhode
Publisher: St. Swithin Press
Total Pages: 270
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1927716616

“One always embarks on a John Rhode book with a great sense of security. One knows that there will be a sound plot, well-knit process of reasoning, and a solidly satisfying solution with no loose ends or careless errors of fact.”—Dorothy Sayers on John Rhode From the jacket: For three years the man had lived in the little Lilac cottage on the Squire’s estate, yet apparently no one in that peaceful village knew a thing about him. The only significant clue that Superintendent Hanslet and Jimmy Waghorn found was the five pound bank note that he received on the day he died. The minute they told Dr. Priestley about it he jumped to the bait and set forth on a trail that picked up such divergent clues as dope fiends, the dismantled engine of a motor mower, and the rear view of an odd man on a bicycle. When the village good-for-nothing was found dead on the estate, it seemed to complicate the affair even more. But for Dr. Priestley it actually simplified things. He brings the case to a smashing conclusion that will leave the reader gasping at the ingenuity of the murders and the unfailing astuteness of this famous criminologist. “Convincingly worked out.”—The Saturday Review

Lilac Love: A Small-Town Witch Romance

Lilac Love: A Small-Town Witch Romance
Author: Rosie Evylin
Publisher: Rosie Evylin
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2023
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1738619001

Amanda is in hiding, Elsie is desperate for connection. LILAC LOVE is a small town witchy friends-to-lovers romance that will melt your heart and make you believe in love again! When Amanda moves to the sleepy small town of Glen Haven, the best part, as far as she’s concerned, is that the locals don’t like newbies. In fact, she’s counting on everyone leaving her alone to hike in the woods and pick up the pieces of her life. Amanda’s running—more like sprinting—from a dark and dangerous past, and she doesn’t need anyone poking their nose into her business, trying to be friends… or even something more. So when she meets sweet, sultry Elsie, she desperately tries to keep her distance. She knows how badly it can hurt when someone you care about lets you down. Better not to let anyone in in the first place. But now she's living with Elsie, and she finds herself wanting to be with her all the time, to share things about herself nobody knows. The two form a fast, if unlikely, friendship, and Amanda begins to believe she could trust, and maybe even love, again. Except Elsie’s keeping a secret. A big secret. Something that no one else in Glen Haven knows. She’s a witch, and the woods where her feisty new housemate Amanda loves to hike are in danger from a dark, sinister magic. Can Elsie tell Amanda her secret and enlist her help to find the magical culprit without risking the growing attraction between them? Elsie knows that witches and 'normys' can't be happy together, can they? You’ll love this closed-door small town romance with a dash of dark mystery, baking and a rambunctious puppy! Lilac Love is a whimsical witchy love story that will light the candle in anyone’s heart. Perfect for fans of Gilmore Girls, Charmed, and The Only Purple House in Town.

East Brunswick through the Years

East Brunswick through the Years
Author: Mark Nonestied and Ethan Reiss
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2022-07-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467108693

East Brunswick Township has a rich and diverse history dating back to the earliest period of settlement in the late 1600s. Incorporated in 1860, the town developed a farm-to-market economy that would define it for much of its existence. The early 20th century witnessed the arrival of immigrants from Eastern Europe, and the postwar years saw a continued melding of cultural groups within the community. The town saw unprecedented growth in the mid-1900s, and a rural landscape was transformed into suburbia. The prosperity of this period increased the town's population, infrastructure, businesses, and commerce. A journey through history using historic images from both public and private collections, East Brunswick through the Years looks at the evolution of the town and the people that called East Brunswick home. Mark Nonestied has lived in East Brunswick for most of his life. In 1987 at the age of 15, he pedaled across town on his bicycle to the East Brunswick Museum to learn about the town's history. He never left, having served for almost 35 years as a volunteer researching and writing about the town's history. Ethan Reiss has also lived in East Brunswick for most of his life and developed a passion for the township's history at a young age. Reiss has taken to that passion by researching and sharing photographs of the town's past on social media. He currently serves on the board of trustees for the East Brunswick Museum.

The Midland

The Midland
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 832
Release: 1921
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

Under a Cloud-Soft Sky

Under a Cloud-Soft Sky
Author: Elizabeth Gill
Publisher: Quercus
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 162365517X

This is the inspiring story, set on the cusp of the 20th century, of four people struggling to leave the past behind them and find happiness together. In a small village in the north of England, Dennes Eliot has worked hard to create a better life for himself. Now a respectable worker at the local foundry and boarding with his friend Nat, he tries his best to forget his shameful beginnings. Grace Hemingway knows all about the foundry her father runs, and loves the community built around it. But as her parents are grooming her for a stunning London marriage to a man she's not yet met, and her friend Alexandra she bear to leave the place she calls home?