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![]() “There are literally hundreds of varieties that originated in Southern California,” said Tom Spellman, southwestern sales manager for Dave Wilson’s Nursery, which grows more than 13 million fruit and nut trees per year to sell to both to orchards and commercial nurseries. Even popular varieties of apple just kind of developed on their own here. ![]() Plenty of fruit trees grow well in Southern California, and many were developed here, from the citrus plants cultivated as part of UC Riverside’s Citrus Variety Collection to the low-winter chill peaches bred at Chaffey College. ![]() By now, you’ve presumably named all your houseplants and already started your winter vegetable garden, so you might be thinking of broadening your horizons: Like say, getting a fruit tree? ![]() With the novel coronavirus keeping everyone stuck at home, 2020 has been a year of gardening and house plant accumulation for many of us. ![]() ![]() I'll say first and foremost that I loved this book. Faced with their helplessness, Anna must make an unexpected choice between holding on to the pain of her past and letting love into her life.įor Sophie, an obstetrician and the orphaned daughter of free people of color, helping a desperate young mother forces her to grapple with the oath she took as a doctor-and thrusts her and Anna into the orbit of Anthony Comstock, a dangerous man who considers himself the enemy of everything indecent and of anyone who dares to defy him. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and New York in the grips of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie-both graduates of the Woman’s Medical School-treat the city’s most vulnerable, even if doing so may put everything they’ve strived for in jeopardy.Īnna's work has placed her in the path of four children who have lost everything, just as she herself once had. ![]() The year is 1883, and in New York City, it’s a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. ![]() ![]() ![]() )Ī successful lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with an immigrant Bohemian girl named Antonia.Ī high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies. (Sequel is Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. Alice’s Adventures in WonderlandĪlice falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusingĬharacters. Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies and is reduced to working in the scullery.Ĭarroll, Lewis. Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.īurnett, Frances Hodgson. ![]() Independent Lucy Snowe leaves her unhappy life in England to teach in a French boarding school.Ī farmer in China struggles to work his land.īurnett, Frances Hodgson. The harshly treated orphan girl, Jane Eyre, becomes a governess in an mysterious Yorkshire mansion and falls in love with the master of the house. Two sisters’ experiences of love in a highly competitive marriage market.Ī fourteen-year-old English girl wins a horse in a raffle, trains it, and rides it in the Grand National steeplechase. Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England. ![]() ![]() In Roddy's world, the current Merlin expires and a new one takes his place. Now, Nick's been on other worlds before (although never alone) but he's a confident type. But Nick's not the ordinary 15 year old he seems, as he slips sideways into something he thinks is a dream – but in fact is another world entirely. ![]() Nick Mallory's world is much more familiar – at least, it starts off being our own. Presiding over all, the most important person is the Merlin, who is entrusted with the magical health of the Isles of Blest. ![]() The companion novel to the bestselling Deep Secret.Īrianrhod Hyde's world (or Roddy, as she prefers to be called) is very much the world of magic, pageantry and ritual. A bestselling fantasy adventure about two teens from two very different worlds, who must work together to save the universe. ![]() ![]() ![]() One woman’s surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store’s prom dresses. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. ![]() In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.Ī wife refuses her husband’s entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. ![]() “In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories and hunger and desire. “ vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”-Roxane Gay Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As she gets older, Hild starts to learn the craft of prophesy, observing the world and people around her, figuring out people’s motivations and desires. It is a precarious position to be in, as any wrong move could result in their deaths. In Griffith’s telling, Hild is raised by a politically ambitious mother to influence an indecisive king. Hild follows the main character through her pagan childhood and conversion to Christianity at 13, up until the age of about 19. The setting is beautifully medieval, replete with historical and culture details, and based very roughly on actual historical people. It’s a fictional account of the early life of St Hild of Whitby, a Catholic Saint responsible for spreading Christianity in Great Britain. Hild is a Lambda Literary Award finalist this year for Bisexual Fiction. If you like historical epics with a leisurely pace and detailed world building, and your only complaint is that none of those books have queer protagonists, then Hild is for you. ![]() ![]() Jones seems to struggle with finding the right balance for Murder, Magic, and What We Wore because there’s simply so much going on in the book. Think of Cindy Anstey’s Love, Lies and Spies, and you’ll understand the type of tone Kelly Jones has adopted here, though personally I think Anstey does it better. Murder, Magic, and What We Wore fits into the small trend I’ve noticed of Regency era YA books that focus on fun and flirting and try not to take themselves overly seriously-even when discussing things like, well, murder. However, her sudden lack of financial support means she has to balance her sleuthing with her new (but completely secret) job as a glamour modiste-a fashionable dressmaker who can imbue her clothes with magic. Miss Annis Wentworth has always suspected her father was a spy for England, so when he dies under mysterious circumstances, she takes it upon herself to do some spy work herself to find the murderer. Goodreads: Murder, Magic, and What We Wore ![]() ![]() But it’s Norma’s other job, working as a housekeeper at the Finch Inn, that gets her into terrible trouble. ![]() Jovial, wise, and scrupulously honest, she’s become an uplifting presence in the little town of Quindicott, Rhode Island, where bookseller Pen is thankful to have her part-time help. Living out of her van and teardrop trailer, she revels in self-reliance, solitude, and reading in the glorious peace of nature. With the help of her gumshoe ghost, bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure sets out to clear an innocent woman of a shocking crime in this all-new entry in the "utterly charming" (Mystery Scene) Haunted Bookshop Mysteries from New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle. THE GHOST AND THE STOLEN TEARS is a thrilling ride. The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller, October 2018 The Ghost and the Haunted Portrait, May 2021 ![]() ![]() Mass Market Paperback / e-Book / audiobook (reprint) The Ghost and the Stolen Tears, October 2022 Mass Market Paperback / e-Book / audiobook ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Which is, incidentally, what our Monk and Robot duo-Dex and Mosscap-have found in each other. I love the author's unerring talent for capturing hard feelings with unexpected words, how sometimes Chambers would quietly unload on the page a line so powerful, so devastating, that it would press the breath from my lungs: “ How am I supposed to tell people they’re good enough as they are when I don’t think I am?” These have quickly become my favorite moments, when reading begins to feel like overhearing a confession, a pouring out of inarticulable truths that can only emerge when you finally find someone with whom you can just sit on the ground and breathe. Becky Chambers is fantastic at expressing so precisely things I can talk about endlessly: like the transformative power of love and queer community, the beauty and strangeness of how we eke meaning out of our surroundings, and how joy and beauty can sometimes be so mundane that, in that simplicity, they become utterly radical. There is something in these books that goes right to the heart of things. The dedication for the first book states, “ For anybody who could use a break,” and for this book it reads, “ For anybody who doesn’t know where they’re going.” It must be said that half the joy of reading this series is one of a promise kept. ![]() |