Where the Heart Should Be

Where The Heart Should Be is the book that you read and suddenly find that you are holding your breath. The language is so beautiful, so simple and yet so powerful. The style of free verse adds enormously to the unspoken emotion. The story is predictable, as we know...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

First published in 2008, this story was begun by librarian Mary Ann Shaffer in her seventieth year, after a series of incidents found her stranded on Guernsey one foggy night with nothing to read. She came across a book titled Jersey under the Jackboot. Goaded into...