Joanne Harris
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a fixture there for more than thirty years. But this year the wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork, and information technology are beginning to overshadow St. Oswald's tradition, and Straitley is finally, and reluctantly, contemplating retirement. He...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
439 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
It's an incendiary moment for St. Oswald's school. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls. Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered. Rebecca will bury the past so deep it will evade even her own memory, just like she has done before.
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Chocolat comes a dark, suspenseful tale in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith about a sociopathic young outcast at an antiquated prep school and the curmudgeonly Latin teacher who uncovers his dangerous secret. After thirty years at St. Oswald's Grammar in North Yorkshire, England, Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all kinds of boys come and go. Each class has its own clowns, rebels, and underdogs--all...
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Vianne Rocher has settled down. Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, the place that once rejected her, has finally become her home. With Rosette, her 'special' child, she runs her chocolate shop in the square, talks to her friends on the river, is part of the community. Even Reynaud, the priest, has become a friend. But when old Narcisse, the florist, dies, leaving a parcel of land to Rosette and a written confession to Reynaud, the life of the sleepy village...
Author
Language
English
Description
When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous woman they hold responsible for a tragedy during the German occupation years ago. But the past and present are inextricably entwined, particularly in a scrapbook of recipes and memories that Framboise has inherited from her mother. And soon Framboise will realize that the journal also contains the key to the tragedy...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st William Morrow pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
254 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Now, with coauthor Fran Warde, Harris shares her treasured collection of family recipes that have been passed down from generation to generation in this illustrated cookbook.
8) Runemarks
Author
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Maddy Smith, who bears the mysterious mark of a rune on her hand, learns that she is destined to join the gods of Norse mythology and play a role in the fate of the world.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st HarperLuxe ed.
Physical Desc
684 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The wind has always dictated Vianne Rocher's every move, buffeting her from the French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes to the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a new identity, that of widow Yanne Charbonneau, she opens a chocolaterie on a small Montmartre street, determined to still the wind at last and keep her daughters, Anouk and baby Rosette, safe. But the weather vane soon turns, and Zozie de l'Alba blows into their lives. Charming and enigmatic,...
10) Coastliners
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Mado has been adrift for too long. After ten years in Paris, she returns to the small island of Le Devin, the home that has haunted her since she left. Le Devin is shaped somewhat like a sleeping woman. At her head is the village of Les Salants, while its more prosperous rival, La Houssinière, lies at her feet. Yet even though you can walk from one to the other in an hour, they are worlds apart. And now Mado is back in Les Salants hoping to reconcile...
11) Holy fools
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Joanne Harris, bestselling author of Chocolat, presents her most accomplished novel yet -- an intoxicating concoction that blends theology and reason, deception and masquerade, with a dash of whimsical humor and a soupçon of sensuality. Britanny, 1610. Juliette, a one-time actress and rope dancer, is forced to seek refuge among the sisters of the abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-mer. Reinventing herself as Soeur Auguste, Juliette makes a new life for...
12) Broken light
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bernie Moon's ambitions and dreams have been forgotten by everyone else--including Bernie herself. At 19 she was full of promise, but now facing 50 and going through the menopause, she's a fading light. Until the murder of a woman in a local park unlocks a series of childhood memories, and with them, a talent that she has hidden all her adult life. What happens when the frustrations and power of an older woman are finally given their chance to be...
14) Chocolat
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover her delicious confections, their attitudes begin to change.
18) Honeycomb
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The beauty of stories is that you never know where they will take you. Full of dreams and nightmares, Honeycomb is an entrancing mosaic novel of original fairy tales from bestselling author Joanne M. Harris and legendary artist Charles Vess in a collaboration that's been years in the making. Dark, gripping, and brilliantly imaginative, these magical tales will soon have you in their thrall. Each original tale is a small piece of the larger picture...
Author
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
236 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
I am as brown as brown can be/And my eyes as black as sloe/I am as brisk as brisk can be/And wild as forest doe. (The Child Ballads, 295) So begins a beautiful tale of love, loss and revenge. Following the seasons, A Pocketful of Crows balances youth and age, wisdom and passion and draws on nature and folklore to weave a stunning modern mythology around a nameless wild girl.Only love could draw her into the world of named, tamed things. And it seems...
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Writer's Map is an atlas of the journeys that our most creative storytellers have made throughout their lives. This collection encompasses not only the maps that appear in their books but also the many maps that have inspired them, the sketches that they used while writing, and others that simply sparked their curiosity" --