Ladybird Key Words to Reading September 4, 1990 by Ladybird

David Darlington Could the US government - or some other unnamed entity - be hiding captured alien spacecraft after a half-century of Cold War paranoia? Area 51, Dreamland, Groom Lake,...

Sophie Nicholls Meet Ella and her mother Fabbia Moreno who arrive in York, one cold January day, to set up their vintage dress shop.The flamboyant Fabbia wants to sell beautiful...

Kate Alcott   Just in time for the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic comes a vivid, romantic, and relentlessly compelling historical novel about a spirited young woman...

Mary Chamberlain London, spring 1939. Eighteen-year-old Ada Vaughan, a beautiful and ambitious seamstress, has just started work for a modiste in Dover Street. A career in couture is hers for...

Fiona Valpy A Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts bestseller.From the bestselling author of The Beekeeper’s Promise comes a gripping story of three young women faced with impossible choices. How will history...

Lucy Adlington A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the...

Hans Fallada This astonishing, autobiographical tour de force was written by Hans Fallada in an encrypted notebook while he was incarcerated in a Nazi insane asylum. Discovered after his death,...

Muriel Spark “I aim to startle as well as please,” Muriel Spark once said, and in The Driver’s Seat (1970), her aim is all too true. Her most unnerving novel,...

Author: Michael Connelly The Drop(Harry Bosch #15)Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one...

Primo LevyThe author tries to understand the rationale behind Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Dismissing stereotyped images of brutal Nazi torturers and helpless victims, Levi draws extensively on his own experiences to...

Neil Jordan "Jonathan is a private detective in a decaying eastern European city. He is drowning in his work, his failing marriage, and the corrupt landscape that surrounds him. One...