The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
Viking, 2002
ISBN 0670894605
The Secret Life of Bees is the story of Lily Owens, fourteen years old in the summer of 1964. Lily’s mother is dead, and she is somewhat precariously cared for by her abusive father and black housekeeper Rosaleen. Lily, a social outcast and loner, spends a [...]
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The Secret Life of Bees
Posted in Domestic fiction, Small town fiction on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Cape Ann by Faith Sullivan
Posted in Domestic fiction, Small town fiction on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Cape Ann
by Faith Sullivan
Penguin, 1989
ISBN: 978-0140119794
The Cape Ann begins as an innocent coming of age story about a young girl, Lark Ann Erhardt, preparing to make her First Holy Communion and planning with her mother, Arlene, to build a house based on floor plans called The Cape Ann. The story is set during the [...]
A Morbid Taste For Bones by Ellis Peters
Posted in Mysteries, Priests, Small town fiction on November 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A Morbid Taste for Bones: The First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
by Ellis Peters
Mysterious Press, 1994
ISBN: 978-0446400152
A great way to handle the stress of the end of the semester is with a nice, short, light, comforting book like one of the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters (pseudonym for Edith Pargeter). Relaxing with some light reading [...]
