Tractors, tea and trouble in an English country village...Hard-nosed Arrina Fenn can deal with the local gossips, petty vandals and even runaway tractors in Heathervale village. They're easy to overcome with a cup of tea in one hand and a delicious cake from her best friend's café in the other. But when a dead body crops up in the middle of the busy college she runs—getting it shut down and her shut out of the investigation—life doesn't taste quite so sweet.Determined to solve the murder before both she and the college are exiled from the village, Arrina swaps her smart suits for hiking boots and sets out to uncover just what's going on.This is book one of The Heathervale Mysteries, with more twists than a country lane and a cast of cozy characters you'll be right at home with. Views: 585
Five robots. One unforgettable journey. Their programming will never be the same. Wall-E meets The Wild Robot in this middle grade instant classic about five robots on a mission to rescue their inventor from the corporation that controls them all. Cog looks like a normal twelve-year-old boy. But his name is short for "cognitive development," and he was built to learn. But after an accident leaves him damaged, Cog wakes up in an unknown lab—and Gina, the scientist who created and cared for him, is nowhere to be found. Surrounded by scientists who want to study him and remove his brain, Cog recruits four robot accomplices for a mission to find her.Cog, ADA, Proto, Trashbot, and Car's journey will likely involve much cognitive development in the form of mistakes, but Cog is willing to risk everything to find his way back to Gina.In this charming stand-alone... Views: 585
The Innocence of Roast Chicken is a highly acclaimed post-apartheid novel with a strong sense of place and an atmosphere of light and beauty shot through with an acute awareness of impending tragedy. Views: 585
Beloved author Felicity Hayes-McCoy returns with an enchanting, cozy new novel, perfect for fans of Jenny Colgan, Nina George, and Nancy Thayer—It's Christmas in Ireland, and when Cassie Fitzgerald arrives from Toronto to visit her grandparents, she learns that it's never too late to come home."The perfect winter heart-warmer."—Cathy Kelly, bestselling author of Between Sisters and Secrets of a Happy MarriageThe days are turning colder, preparations are under way for the Winter Fest, and everyone is hoping for a little holiday magic on the Finfarran peninsula. And as Cassie Fitzgerald, fresh from Toronto, is about to discover, there's more to the holidays on the west coast of Ireland than mistletoe and mince pies.Enchanted by the small town where her dad was born, Cassie makes friends and joins local librarian Hanna Casey's writing group in Lissbeg Library. But the more she's drawn into the festivities leading up... Views: 585
