Tag: magic

Title: The Swan Gondola Author: Timothy Schaffert  Publisher: Riverhead, 2014  Summary/Review: When I decided to read this book, I thought the subject was the 1898 Worlds Fair in Omaha Nebraska.  I also thought it was going to be similar to  “The Devil in the...

Title: The Peach Keeper Author: Sarah Addison Allen Publisher: Bantam Books, 2011 Summary/Review: Ever since Willa Jackson moved back to her Southern hometown of Walls of Water she has chosen to lead a quiet life away from society’s rich townspeople and the disgrace of...

Title: Swift as Desire Author:  Laura Esquivel Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, August 2002 Summary: Swift as Desire focuses on Lluvia, a middle aged mother desperately trying to replay her entire life in order to understand her parents’ mutual anger for one another. Júbilo, her...

Title: Island Beneath the Sea Author:  Isabel Allende Publisher: Harper, April 2010 Summary: Island Beneath the Sea follows a young woman named Zarité thrown into slavery in 18th century Haiti. Known by most as Tété, she is chosen to become housekeeper for Toulouse Valmorain, an unpredictable...

Title: The Hummingbird’s Daughter Author:  Luis Alberto Urrea Publisher: Little, Brown, May 2005 Summary: Set in the late 1800’s- early 1900’s, the book follows Teresita, a young girl in Mexico who has been abandoned by her poverty-stricken farm hand mother and given to her abusive aunt...