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Astrid & Veronika
by Linda Olsson

Read: April 2009
Description:

In Linda Olsson’s debut novel, Veronika Bergman returns to Sweden after a childhood following her diplomat father around the world and after publishing her first novel titled Single, One Way, No Luggage. She rents a small house in a rural town to work on her second book, but finds [...]

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Read: March 2009
Description:
Set in the aftermath of World War II, Juliet Ashton, a single, thirty-something writer, is looking for her next book subject. So when Dawsey Adams, a native of Guernsey, the British Island once occupied by the Nazis, finds Juliet’s name [...]

The Subtle Knife (Book 2 in the His Dark Materials trilogy)
by Philip Pullman

Read: March 2009
Description:
In this sequel to The Golden Compass, Lyra finds herself in another world, Cittagazze, where soul eating Specters stalk the streets, children roam freely without an adult in sight, and wingbeats of angels sound against the sky. It is here Lyra [...]

The Golden Compass (Book 1 in the His Dark Materials trilogy)
by Philip Pullman

Read: February 2009
Description:
The Golden Compass, the first book in Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials, opens in a “universe like ours, but different in many ways.” In this fantasy world in which  science, theology, and magic are closely aligned, Lyra, a precocious orphan, [...]

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Read: January 2009
Description:
Biographer Margaret Lea returns one night to her apartment above her father’s bookshop and finds a letter. It is a hand-written request from one of Britain’s most prolific and well-loved authors, Vida Winter. Gravely ill, Vida wants to recount her life story to Margaret before it is too [...]