<p>A welcome return to a writer whose last book, the much loved and admired Girl With a Pearl Earring has been such an outstanding success. 1901, the year of the Queen's death. The two graves stood next to each other, both beautifully decorated. One had a large urn -- some might say ridiculously large -- and the other, almost leaning over the first, an angel -- some might say overly sentimental. The two families visiting the cemetery to view their respective neighbouring graves were divided even more by social class than by taste. They would certainly never have become acquainted had not their two girls, meeting behind the tombstones, become best friends. And furthermore -- and even more unsuitably -- become involved in the life of the gravedigger's muddied son. As the girls grow up, as the century wears on, as the new era and the new King change social customs, the lives and fortunes of the Colemans and the Waterhouses become more and more closely intertwined -- neighbours in life as well as death.</p>

Falling Angels

Literature & Fiction

CHEVALIER, TRACY

Contemporary

Plume Books

Captures the dreams, memories, conflicts, and complex interior lives of the citizens of a small, all-black town as four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near the town during the 1970s.

Paradise

MORRISON, Toni.

United States

Why Does Batman Carry Shark Repellent? 6-Copy Counter Display

Brian Cronin

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Report from Ground Zero by Dennis Smith (2003-03-03)

Dennis Smith

Still Life With Chickens: Starting over in a House by the Sea

"Frank, funny and helpful."—The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionFor the millions who loved A Year by the Sea comes a memoir of a woman who awakens at midlife to find wisdom in a most unlikely place In this beautifully written and frequently funny memoir, Catherine Goldhammer, newly separated, along with her twelve-year-old daughter, starts life anew in a cottage by the sea, in a rustic town where live bait is sold from vending machines. Partly to please her daughter and partly for reasons not clear to her at the time, she begins this year of transition by purchasing six baby chickens—whose job, she comes to suspect, is to pull her and her daughter forward out of one life and into another.An unforgettable story filled with hope and grace, Still Life with Chickens shows how transcendent wisdom can be found in the most unlikely of places.

Still Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea

Biographies & Memoirs

Catherine Goldhammer

Memoirs

Creative Process

Medical Books

Brewster Ghiselin

Psychology

Quilter's Apprentice

JENNIFER CHIAVERINI

One-hit Wonder

JEWELL,LISA

Secret Soldiers: How a Troupe of American Artists, Designers, and Sonic Wizards Won World War Ii's Battles of Deception Against the Germans

History

Philip Gerard

Military

The Real McCoy: A Novel

STRAUSS, Darin

Genre Fiction

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