false 1074866 6218281 0385342306 9780385342308 971 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255740234m/6218281.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6218281.The_Sweetness_at_the_Bottom_of_the_Pie 3.83 2338 “I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.”

To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story—of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school’s tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder—but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse….

An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions—and a rich literary delight.]]> 1074866 3.83 2540 1076 6777616 0385342314 9780385342315 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6777616-the-weed-that-strings-the-hangman-s-bag 3.00 1
Flavia thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacy are over—and then Rupert Porson has an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. The beloved puppeteer has had his own strings sizzled, but who’d do such a thing and why? For Flavia, the questions are intriguing enough to make her put aside her chemistry experiments and schemes of vengeance against her insufferable big sisters. Astride Gladys, her trusty bicycle, Flavia sets out from the de Luces’ crumbling family mansion in search of Bishop’s Lacey’s deadliest secrets.

Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than she’s letting on? What of the vicar’s odd ministrations to the catatonic woman in the dovecote? Then there’s a German pilot obsessed with the Brontë sisters, a reproachful spinster aunt, and even a box of poisoned chocolates. Most troubling of all is Porson’s assistant, the charming but erratic Nialla. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can’t solve—without Flavia’s help. But in getting so close to who’s secretly pulling the strings of this dance of death, has our precocious heroine finally gotten in way over her head?
 ]]> 1074866 3.83 2540 1076 1265034 0888644159 9780888644152 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182360836m/1265034.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1265034.Ms_Holmes_of_Baker_Street_The_Truth_About_Sherlock 4.00 1 1074866 3.83 2540 1076 237154 4.10 108 14 1119795 4.00 1 0 2408356 1850585024 9781850585022 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2408356.Family_History_on_Your_PC_A_Book_for_Beginners 0.0 0 1074866 3.83 2540 1076 7292796 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7292796-a-red-herring-without-mustard 0.0 0 1074866 3.83 2540 1076 7292831 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7292831-death-in-camera 0.0 0 1074866 3.83 2540 1076 7292842 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7292842-the-nasty-light-of-day 0.0 0 1074866 3.83 2540 1076 7292811 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7292811-seeds-of-antiquity 0.0 0 1074866 3.83 2540 1076 5132224 0771016638 9780771016639 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5132224.The_Shoebox_Bible 0.0 0
As a child, during the cold, dark winter days of the Second World War, the author found hidden beneath a floorboard in his mother’s bedroom closet a well-worn cardboard shoebox.

At the time he could make little sense of the ragtag things he found inside: cigarette packages, soup-can labels, handbills, calendars, paper bags, pie boxes — any scrap of paper upon which his mother could copy out, in her old-fashioned handwriting, what seemed to be no more than unrelated snippets of Scripture.

He knew only that the box, which he would later come to think of as the Shoebox Bible, had something to do with the fact that his father had run away from home. Many years would pass, and his mother would be on her deathbed before he would once again hold this treasure in his hands. And only then would he put together the pieces of the puzzle, and learn the complete truth.

Beautifully and lovingly told, The Shoebox Bible is a wonderful memoir of a precocious family who manage to live and love despite the absence of their father.

Interspersed with heartbreaking quotations from the Old and New Testaments, this sad, funny, and above all inspiring story will appeal to readers who fell in love with such inspirational books as Tuesdays with Morrie and Mister God, This Is Anna.]]> 1074866 3.83 2540 1076 514825 3.79 128 48 7348640 1878489496 9781878489494 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7348640-animals 0.0 0 3215328 0.0 0 0 3132121 0.0 0 0 1074866 3.83 2540 1076 431381 0.0 0 0 703342 0.0 0 0 3241726 0.0 0 0 3241727 0.0 0 0 3241728 0.0 0 0 3241729 0.0 0 0