Sasha's Recommends

This swashbuckling adventure is packed with non-stop awesome!  Pirates, magic, creepy villains, peril on the high seas...yet far from cliche, the entire book is delightfully unique, a story only Tim Powers could invent. Exciting, funny, intense, and vividly cinematic, this novel is definitely a winner.  Read it!

~Sasha

At the New York Circulating Materials Repository, the vast collection houses not only more conventional historical artifacts for check-out. With the right clearance, you can check out even more intriguing items...the magical kind. After she starts working there, high-schooler Elizabeth Rew finds herself involved in an adventure beyond her wildest imaginings! This book hits the elusive, delightful balance between the mundane and the fantastical, as the unconventional library and its employees come to vivid, vibrant life.

A fascinating portrait not only of one of the most famous women in history, but also of her two equally famous lovers, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. An entire era comes alive in this vivid biography of a woman whose power, wealth, intelligence, and political savvy were all equally astonishing.

This book is SO fantastic, but I can't explain why in detail without giving away the plot...which I don't want to do, because you HAVE to read it! So I'll simply say that it's about a group of time-travellers from 2060 Oxford who find themselves stuck in London during the Blitz. Fearing that they may have changed the course of history, Polly, Mike, and Eileen race against time – literally – to try to get out before it's too late. The book is about heroism, and chaos theory, and love, and sacrifice. The historical setting comes to vivid life, and the deeply satisfying ending packs a huge emotional punch. It's a must-read!

~Sasha