Joanne Harris
2) Chocolat
Author
Series
Vianne Rocher novel volume 1
Language
English
Description
In tiny Lansquenet, where nothing much has changed in a hundred years, beautiful, unmarried newcomer Vianne Rocher and her young daughter sweep into the pinched little town on a wave of gossip. On the heels of the carnival, Vianne promptly opens a chocolate shop right across the square from the church, and thus begins to wreak havoc with the town's Lenten vows. Vianne finds herself embroiled in a battle for the town's souls with the local priest,...
3) Honeycomb
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The toymaker who wants to create the perfect wife; the princess whose heart is won by words, not actions; the tiny dog whose confidence far outweighs his size; and the sinister Lacewing King who rules over the Silken Folk. These are just a few of the weird and wonderful creatures who populate Joanne Harris's first collection of fairy tales"--
5) Holy fools
Author
Language
English
Description
Forced to seek refuge in a seventeenth-century abbey, Juliette creates a new identity for herself and her young daughter in the wake of political upheavals surrounding the assassination of King Henri IV.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
As the new term gets under way at the elite St. Oswald's School for Boys, a number of increasingly devastating incidents occurs, leaving the unraveling school in the hands of the only person who can save it, Roy Straitley.
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This is the last of a trio of novels set in St Oswald's Grammar School ("Gentlemen and Players" and "Different Class"). It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls. Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered. Rebecca will bury the...
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The compelling new novel from the author of the bestselling Chocolat. Vianne Rocher has settled down. Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, the place that once rejected her, has finally become her home. With Rosette, her 'special' child, she runs her chocolate shop in the square, talks to her friends on the river, is part of the community. Even Reynaud, the priest, has become a friend. But when old Narcisse, the florist, dies, leaving a parcel of land to Rosette...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to return to Lansquenet, where she once owned a chocolate shop and learned the meaning of home. But returning to one's past can be a dangerous pursuit, and Vianne and her daughters find the beautiful French village changed in unexpected ways: women veiled in black, the scent of spices in the air, and facing the church, a minaret. Most surprising of all, her old nemesis,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Master confectioner and benevolent witch Vianne Rocher trades the quiet life of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes for the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a new identity, that of widow Yanne Charbonneau, she opens a chocolaterie on a small Montmartre street, determined to still the wind at last and keep her daughters, Anouk and the baby, Rosette, safe. But soon the weathervane turns...and into their lives blows the charming and enigmatic Zozie de l'Alba....
14) Orfeia
Author
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When you can find me an acre of land, Every sage grows merry in time, Between the ocean and the sand Then will you be united again.(Inspired by The Child Ballads 2 & 19) ... So begins a beautiful and tragic quest as a heartbroken mother sets out to save her lost daughter, through the realms of the real, of dream, and even into the underworld itself. But determination alone is not enough. For to save something precious, she must give up something...
15) Broken light
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bernie Moon's ambitions and dreams have been forgotten by everyone else - including Bernie herself. At 19 she was full of promise, but now facing 50 and going through the menopause, she's a fading light. Until the murder of a woman in a local park unlocks a series of childhood memories, and with them, a talent that she has hidden all her adult life. What happens when the frustrations and power of an older woman are finally given their chance to be...
16) Chocolat
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop -- with Sunday hours -- across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change.