Shannon's Library

LET’S GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS BOOK! Think you know the person you married? Think again… Things have been wrong with Mr. and Mrs. Wright for a long time. Adam has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can’t recognize friends or family, or even his own wife. And Amelia is sick of feeling unseen.…

LET’S GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS BOOK! Hurtling from present day New York to Victorian London, “The Sherlockian” weaves the history of Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into an inspired and entertaining double mystery that proves to be anything but “elementary.” In 1893, Sherlock Holmes-adoring Londoners eagerly opened their Strand magazines, anticipating the detective’s…

Do you come from a family of readers? I do. And the older I get I realize what a blessing this has been in my life. I’m surrounded by a lot of reading friends, many of whom didn’t grow up reading. Instead, their love of books was discovered independently as adults. But my love of…

LET’S GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS BOOK! Coyote and her dad, Rodeo, have lived on the road in an old school bus for five years – ever since the tragic accident that took the lives of three of their family members. They haven’t been back home once in all of that time. When Coyote hears about…

LET’S GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS BOOK! This is the remarkable story of one of the greatest events in musical history, the creation of George Frederic Handel’s masterpiece, Messiah. Composed in just twenty-four days, Handel’s “Grand Oratorio” was birthed in the darkest and most desperate hours of his life. His health was failing. Critics ridiculed him.…

LET’S GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS BOOK! As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. There’s Osla, a rich socialite. Mab, a product of East End London poverty. And Beth, a shy…

LET’S GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS BOOK! Ever since her parents died, Ryn has been scraping out a meager existence trying to take care of her siblings. She works as a gravedigger in her family’s graveyard. The problem with being a gravedigger in Colbren, though, is that the dead don’t always stay dead. The risen corpes…

I have a confession to make. I’m not a huge fan of Halloween. I know. That’s not always the most popular thing to admit in October. And I’m very much aware of the disappointment this brings to my youngest children! But I just don’t like anything creepy, spooky or scary. Skeletons? Nope. Haunted Houses? Nope.…

LET’S GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS BOOK! Eleven-year-old Fin has lived in Aldermere for the past three years. It’s a magical town where shops can vanish without warning, doors lead to mysterious places and a sip of tea can grant your deepest wishes. This is the first place Fin has felt truly safe and is the…

LET’S GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS BOOK! When Kaveri moves to Bangalore to marry a young doctor named, Ramu – a man she barely knows – she has no idea what life will have in store for her. Will this be the end of her education? Her passions? Her freedoms? Her happiness? After all, in the…