JANUARY 2024
UNDER
THE
WHISPERING DOOR
BY TJ KLUNE
The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace
from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead.
And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop,
promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he is definitely dead.
But even in death he is not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days.
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MARCH 2024
THE
QUEEN'S
NECKLACE
BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS
"THE QUEEN'S NECKLACE" dramatizes an unsavory incident in the 1780s at the court of King Louis XVI of France involving the King's wife, Marie Antoinette.
Her reputation was already tarnished by gossip and scandal, and her implication in a crime involving a stolen necklace became one of the major turning-points of public opinion against the monarchy, which eventually culminated in the French Revolution.
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MAY 2024
AWAY
WITH
THE PENGUINS
BY HAZEL PRIOR
AWAY WITH THE PENGUINS (also titled “How the Penguins Saved Veronica”) is the second novel by British harpist and author, Hazel Prior. Veronica McCreedy lives in a mansion by the sea. She loves a nice cup of Darjeeling tea whilst watching a good wildlife documentary.
And she’s never seen without her ruby-red lipstick. When home help, Eileen Turner brings forth from Veronica McCreedy’s back room a padlocked wooden box, she unwittingly sets in motion a series of events no seer could have predicted.
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