SpecialA group of schoolgirls go off with two teachers on a field trip to the English countryside. They soon discover that the nearby town offers alcohol, drugs, and sex, at once tempting and terrifying. In this illicit, raw new world, isolated from the larger society and its familiar rules and repressions, some become more vulnerable, others more vicious. There are the almost casual daily cruelties the girls inflict on one another, the dangerous fault lines

16 Lighthouse Road by Debbie Macomber

severe wintry weather damages the church hall hosting the Christmas Boutique—an annual sale of handcrafted gifts and baked goods that supports the county food pantry

In sixteenth-century Mexico

“A terrific political novel

confident home cook

In this strange and delightful tale

But freedom remains elusive for the myriad sentient races enslaved for ten centuries

charmingly bizarre stories that promise to burrow their way into your heart and

has two good reasons to suspect his master was murdered

He says only he can protect her

she adores her quirky family

delinquents