Salt England

An extraordinary look at an ordinary substance—and one we'd be dead without: salt. Salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and the story of this common household seasoning proves a fascinating one. In a kaleidoscope of history, Mark Kurlansky—bestselling author of  1968 and...

Trunks packed with potions and cures, Jane Aire sets out on a crisp, clear morning in October to face the greatest challenge of her sheltered girls’-school existence. A shadow lies over Thornfield Hall and its reclusive master, Edward Rochester. And he’s hired her only as a last resort. Jane stumbles again and again as she tries to establish a rapport with her prickly new employer, but he becomes the least of her worries as a mysterious force seems to work against her.

The Norfolk Salt Marsh Chronicles: Books 1–5 A Gripping British Coastal Mystery Box Set Five atmospheric mysteries. One haunting coastline. Countless secrets buried beneath the tides. Welcome to the wild and windswept salt marshes of Norfolk, where shifting sands conceal old crimes, forgotten histories, and deadly truths waiting to resurface. In this compelling collection, author F.H. Braddock brings together the first five novels in "The Norfolk Salt Marsh Chronicles", a series of richly layered British mysteries steeped in coastal atmosphere, local folklore, and long-buried secrets. ...

Bloomsbury presents The Salt King by Natasha Pulley, ready by Luke R. Francis An apocalyptic novel about belief, religion, and the power of myth that blends the gripping, end-of-the-world storytelling of The Passage with the biting wit and epic queer romance that makes Natasha Pulley’s books...

THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING GILLIAN ANDERSON AND JASON ISAACS "Polished, poignant... an inspiring story of true love."—Entertainment Weekly A BEST BOOK OF 2019, NPR's Book Concierge SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD The true story of a...

From New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky—a woman has a secret that may save the life of her best friend's husband—or destroy him Charlotte and Nicole were once the best of friends, spending summers together in Nicole's family's island house, but they have since grown apart. A...

At eight, he gave me roses. At fifteen, he gave me butterflies, and at seventeen, he gave me sanctuary. I wasn't a damsel in distress. He wasn't Prince Charming waiting to whisk me off my feet. We didn't meet by chance. He's been part of my life for years, and for most of that time, I've been...

Kettle Creek did not welcome the living. In the bitter winter of 1638, on the wind-scourged coast of colonial Massachusetts, the survival of twelve crude cabins depends on split-oak palisades and absolute order. But when three swine freeze solid in the soft mud and the structural timbers of the newly raised meetinghouse begin to bleed concentrated sea-brine, the boundaries of the natural world begin to fray. Colin Fletcher is a man of the early Enlightenment. Armed with Florentine thermoscopes, scalpels, and the absolute conviction of natural philosophy, he is determined to map, catalog, ...

The storm came in on the eighteenth of November, the worst tide in a decade, and when it had finished with Harriet Finch's lighthouse, it had peeled back more than render and lath. Behind a bricked-up section of the old keeper's room, the builders found a logbook nobody had catalogued — kept by a keeper named Obadiah Strafford, 1851 to 1854, in handwriting that grew smaller and more careful every time he wrote about the nights the light went dark. Ships didn't run aground on this coast by accident, not always. Sometimes the light simply wasn't where it should have been. And in March of ...

Anikwa and James, 12 years old in 1812, spend their days fishing, trapping, and exploring together in the forests of the Indiana Territory. To Anikwa and his family, members of the Miami tribe, this land has been home for centuries. As traders, James' family has ties to the Miami community as well as to the American soldiers in the fort. Now tensions are rising - the British and American armies prepare to meet at Fort Wayne for a crucial battle, and Native Americans from surrounding tribes gather in Kekionga to protect their homeland.

Some islands keep what they take. Nell Rourke has spent three seasons working her way up the Maine coast, collecting the stories of people who are running out of time to tell them. Corvane Island is meant to be one more entry in the notebook: a fishing village, a drowned bell, a few rhymes nobody can finish. Then nine ravens land on the boat and count her in. On Corvane, the fog takes payment. Every year at the winter solstice a Vaile gives it something of himself — a face, a name, a season — and every year the island stays above the water for another turn. Ronan Vaile is the last one ...

My name is Bird Howsley, and I'm a beautiful disaster. Okay, "beautiful" is probably being generous. But the "disaster" part is right. In a brutal dystopian waterworld, where survival depends on skill and smarts, I'm pretty much always one bad decision away from watching my life go completely down the drain. Luckily, I have a lifeline: my cute, level-headed sailing teacher, Sargo Paz. Did I say cute? I didn't mean cute. He's just a friend. I definitely don't have weird sex dreams about him.

The sins of the past come back to haunt Doc Ford and his old friend Tomlinson in this thrilling new novel from New York Times-bestselling author Randy Wayne White. Marine biologist and former government agent Doc Ford is sure he's beyond the point of being surprised by his longtime pal...

For Andrew and Jack, life in the colonies is always uncertain, but over two days in December, 1774, their world will change forever! Young Andrew Beckett hopes to be a doctor. His friend Jack Cochran plans to take over his father’s position as militia captain of the fort. Then Paul Revere rides into town with urgent news. Andrew doesn't want a revolution, but he doesn't approve of how the King treats the colonists. On one night, when tempers push the townspeople to action, Andrew must make a choice. What would you do? The Portsmouth Alarm: December 1774 is based on an actual event. Just ...

A body comes out of the Rowley marsh in the autumn of 1741, fifty years after it went into it. The minister sends for Patience Hartwell. She is thirty-eight, unmarried, the daughter of the last minister, and the only person left in the parish who can read the old hands. He asks her to search the church records for a name. What she finds is a page that was never bound in, a cabinet that appears on no inventory, and twelve ruled pages scraped clean of the signatures they once carried. The town understands what she is doing before she does. A door that has stood open every day of her life is ...

A sweeping historical romance about a witch who foresees her own murder--and the one boy who can help change her future. Sixteen-year-old Avery Roe wants only to take her rightful place as the witch of Prince Island, making the charms that keep the island's whalers safe at sea, but her mother...

West Finch is one hurricane away from falling into the sea. Yet 16-year-old Harlow Prout is determined to save her small Maine hometown. If only she could stop getting in her own way and find someone - anyone - willing to help. But her best friend, Ellis MacQueen, “fixes” problems by running away from them - including his broken relationship with his twin brother, Tommy. And Tommy’s depression has hit a new low, so he’s not up for fixing anything. In the wake of the town’s latest devastating storm, Tommy goes out for a swim that he doesn’t intend to survive.

A disillusioned doctor investigates the disappearance of one of his patients—a young woman caught up in a local scandal—in this classic cozy mystery by one of the twentieth century’s great, underappreciated masters. Dr. Salt has sold his medical practice and is eager to finally leave...

Author James Sallis is acclaimed for his taut mysteries featuring world-weary ex-Memphis cop John Turner, including Cripple Creek. Assuming the role of deputy sheriff in a small town near the city, Turner investigates sordid cases in a community that time is slowly forgetting. Here his past catches up to him when his son rolls down Main Street riding in what appears to be a stolen car.

This “luminous” (The Observer) feminist coming-of-age novel captures in sensuous, blistering prose the richness and imperfection of the bond between a daughter and her mother. It begins with our bodies...Safe together in the violet dark and yet already there are spaces beginning to open...