marymarigny

"Sybil is seventy-three years old, in the winter of her life. Sybil has always made sense of the world through writing letters and through this epistolary novel we see how she comes to terms with her past and present and learns forgiveness"--

"At eight years old, Gerta Pieters is forced to disguise herself as a boy and sent to work for a genteel Dutch family. When their brilliant and beautiful daughter Maria sees through Gerta's ruse, she insists that Gerta accompany her to Amsterdam...

Eleven wintry whodunits from Agatha Christie, including stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

"Over the course of one sunbaked summer vacation, ten-year-old Alix is pulled into a web of mysteries she sets out to solve. A tense, page-turning debut of childhood, innocence, and evil. Alix is an observant kid. At ten, she catches more than her...

"The night that workhouse orphan Scilla Brown dares to climb the Earl of Havermore's garden wall, she wants only to steal a peach--the best thing she's ever tasted in her hard, hungry life. But when she's caught by the earl's head gardener and...