The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchet (1983) – Welcome to Discworld, a planet that is, in fact, flat, round and balanced on the backs of a four elephants who ride through the cosmos on the back of the giant turtle known as Great A’Tuin. In the first novel to explore this delightfully weird world... Continue Reading →

Magic For Liars by Sarah Gailey (2019) - Ivy Gamble is a small time private investigator stuck doing divorce cases and other jobs that bring her little profit and less joy. Until the head of a local private school came through the door. There had been a murder at the school, and she wanted it... Continue Reading →

Origin by Dan Brown (2017) – Robert Langdon is at it again! This time a friend and former student is killed as he about to make an announcement that will challenge the foundations of religion. With the beautiful fiancee of the future King of Spain at his side, he has to untangle the mysteries of... Continue Reading →

And A Highway Shall Be There... Fuller Man by Diane Glancy (1999) – In rural Missouri, Hadley Williges struggles to find her way through life torn between the faith inherited from her mother and the freedom represented by her father. Her brother and sister find paths at the extremes, while Hadley toils in a middle... Continue Reading →

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (2013) – A funeral brings a man back to the town of his childhood. It also brings back memories of a family he knew at the end of a country lane. Memories of mystery and magic and an ocean… So two Gaiman books on... Continue Reading →

Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon (2007) - A pair of swashbuckling Jewish bandits in 950 A.D. wander into a rebellion central Asia. Amram, a huge Abyssinian, and Zelikman, a Frankish doctor, make their way through the world as mercenaries and con men. Now they find themselves tasked with returning a prince to his... Continue Reading →

Death of a Nurse by M.C. Beaton (2016) - Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has a quiet beat on the west coast of Scotland.  And he likes it that way. Then a grumpy old man moves into a restored hunting lodge.  With him comes a lovely nurse, Gloria Dainty.  Hamish asks her out to dinner, only... Continue Reading →

City of Secrets by Stewart O’Nan (2016) - Following World War II, thousands of Jews fled to Palestine. Brand’s family was killed in Latvia, and he receives a new life through the growing underground in the land they call Eretz Israel. There the fight between the underground and the British authorities draws him in, sometimes... Continue Reading →

Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert (2018) - A book of strange fairy tales written by her reclusive grandmother is the center of young Alice Proserpine’s life. She has never been allowed to read them, and the book itself is almost impossible to find. When Alice realizes that people from the “Hinterland”, the setting for the... Continue Reading →