The Children's Book by A S Byatt
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Category: BABIES & TODDLERS | Reading Level: very good
From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Possession a deeply affecting story of a singular family. When children's book author Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of a museum, she takes him into the storybook world of her family and frie ...Show more
Suite Francaise by NEMIROVSKY Irene
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Category: BABIES & TODDLERS
In June 1940 France fell to the Nazis. The effects of this momentous event on the lives of ordinary Parisians and the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation are brilliantly explored in Irene Nemirovsky's gripping and heartbreaking novel. Nemirovsky herself was a tragic victim of the Naz ...Show more
The Battle Of The Queens by Jean Plaidy
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Category: BABIES & TODDLERS | Series: Plantagenet Saga Ser.
The fifth book in Jean Plaidy's Plantagenet saga tells the fascinating story of the hatred between two queens. The first half of the thirteenth century is dominated by two women, as proud and ambitious as they were beautiful, yet different in all other qualities. Isabella, flamboyant and passionate, a m ...Show more
The Dressmaker by Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck
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Category: BABIES & TODDLERS
Monsieur Claude Reynaud is known throughout France for his talent for making fabulous clothes. The most elegant women in Paris regularly make the pilgrimage to the cobbled village of Senlis to be charmed by the tailor in the cluttered studio by the century-old apple tree. Claude can take a measurement a ...Show more
Bareback by Whitfield Kit
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Category: BABIES & TODDLERS | Reading Level: very good
"Biology is destiny. or those born feet-first, life is normal. Civil rights are enshrined in law, the world is a comfortable place, and every full moon night, you lock yourself in a secure room to fur up in peace. But for those born head-first, the damage done is more than just physical. For a non, lock ...Show more
Broken Angels by Richard Montanari
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Category: BABIES & TODDLERS
When the first body is found, mutilated and strangled on the riverbanks, Philadelphia homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano suspect yet another case of random urban violence. Then it happens again. And again. Carefully dressed and posed, each victim seems to tell a story so gruesome that B ...Show more
Giraffe by J.M. Ledgard
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Category: BABIES & TODDLERS
In 1975, on the eve of May Day, secret police sealed off a zoo in a small Czechoslovakian town and ordered the destruction of the largest captive herd of giraffes in the world. Ledgard tells the story of the giraffes from the moment of their capture in Africa to their deaths behind the Iron Curtain. We ...Show more
Angel Time (#1 Songs of the Seraphim) by Anne Rice
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Category: BABIES & TODDLERS | Series: Songs of the Seraphim
Toby O'Dare - Lucky the Fox - is a contract killer of underground fame. In his youth Lucky had dreamt of being a priest, instead he fell into a life danger and violence. Living under a series of aliases he long ago lost any sense of his true self, becoming a pawn to 'The Right Man, a contractor of dark ...Show more
Road Rage by Ruth Rendell
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Category: BABIES & TODDLERS | Reading Level: very good
From the author of SIMISOLA, a novel featuring Chief Inspector Wexford, whose wife allies herself to a protest movement when a by-pass is planned for Kingsmarkham, but the plot thickens when the lifeless body of a young woman is discovered, and people go missing, including his wife.
The Girl from the Chartreuse by Pierre Peju
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Category: BABIES & TODDLERS
One wet afternoon, Etienne Vollard, driving a vanload of books to his shop, knocks down a little girl, Eva. Haunted by guilt, Vollard visits Eva in hospital and reads stories to her while she lies in a coma. He also meets Eva's mother, Therese, a struggling single parent whose dream is to be faraway, ...Show more
The Venetian House by Mary Nickson
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Category: BABIES & TODDLERS
For Victoria, orphaned at six, her grandmother Evanthi's beautiful home in Corfu - known locally as The Venetian House - has always meant safety, freedom and a near-magical kind of contentment. Brought up by her cousin Guy's parents in England, she - together with Guy and his childhood friend Richard Cu ...Show more
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
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Category: BABIES & TODDLERS | Reading Level: very good
Boston. 1865. A small group of elite scholars prepares to introduce Dante's vision of hell to America. But so does a murderer. The literary geniuses of The Dante Club- poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and publisher J. T. Fields- are ...Show more