March 2024

Fantasy (A Book with a Green Cover)

Tress is a pragmatic girl who lives on an island in a green sea, works as a cleaner, collects cups, and has a good friend in the local lord’s son. The lord sees their friendship and announces that the family will be leaving the island to find a wife for his heir. Charlie promises he won’t marry anyone else, and that he’ll send her a cup at every stop. The cups stop coming; the lord arrives home with an heir who is not his son. Tress finds that Charlie has been taken for ransom and abandoned by his father. She cooks up a plan to leave the island, which goes well until she discovers she’s managed to smuggle herself onto a smuggler’s ship, which is promptly destroyed by pirates, though not before Tress befriends a talking rat named Huck. She soon finds friends among the pirate crew, and navigates an educational and dangerous journey.

Fiction (A Book with a Green Cover)

Walking away from her loveless marriage and taking a job in a derelict, financially devastated town, sixty-three-year-old Britt-Marie uses her fierce organizational skills to become a local soccer coach to a group of lost children.

Crime (A Book with a Green Cover)

Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, begins her adventure when a dead bird is found on the doorstep of her family’s mansion in the summer of 1950, thus propelling her into a mystery that involves an investigation into a man’s murder where her father is the main suspect.

Romance (A Book with a Green Cover)

Trish Doller’s idyllic romance Off the Map proves sometimes a wrong turn can lead to the exact right destination.

Romance (A Book with Luck or Lucky in the Title)

Ethan leaves Lilah to focus on his hockey career only to return eight years later. He might think they can pick up where they left off, but she’s not the same girl and doesn’t want to be. Just when Lilah decides she might be ready to let Ethan in, she discovers their reunion might have nothing to do with love and everything to do with improving his game.

Fiction (A Book with Luck or Lucky in the Title)

Follows the experiences of a former Yale student whose life at a 1930s Reno divorce ranch is upended by a shy woman and a thrice-divorced pilot.

Crime (A Book with Luck or Lucky in the Title)

A romantic comedy featuring two people recovering a stolen $14-million lottery ticket. It belongs to JoLayne Lucks, a black veterinary assistant in Florida and was stolen by white supremacists. With the help of reporter Tom Krome, JoLayne goes after the thieves and love blooms.

Fiction (A Book with Luck or Lucky in the Title)

After being drawn together by the shadows of their past, four women start meeting every week in San Francisco to engage in hobbies they all enjoy. After one of the four members dies, her daughter takes her place to fulfill her mother’s dying wish. After the revelation of a secret, the women are forced to think back to their pasts and remember the sometimes painful events of their lives.