Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey - 15 copies available now
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially
tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting
apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from
loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first
snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is
gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.
Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom - 3 available
now
Orphaned during her passage from Ireland, young, white
Lavinia arrives on the steps of the kitchen house and is placed, as an
indentured servant, under the care of Belle, the master’s illegitimate slave
daughter. Lavinia learns to cook, clean, and serve food, while guided by the
quiet strength and love of her new family.
All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr - 8
copies available now
A blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in
occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
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