Gideon Oliver, American physical anthropologist, nicknamed the Skeleton Detective, is honeymooning in England and calls at a Wessex dig run by a former classmate. He has good reason to regret it when a body is discovered and the atmosphere ripens from unpleasant to murderous.

Murder in the Queen's Armes

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

FLEMING, Anne

Mystery

HarperCollins, Publishers

Death and Deconstruction

In a witty literary mystery, John Charter investigates a killer stalking the members of a Romantic poets society on a Byron-Shelley tour of Italy, at the London Library, and at an academic conference at Norman Abbey--culminating in murder.

Literature & Fiction

St Martins Pr

Since the rise of the small-sum lending industry in the 1890s, people on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder in the United States have been asked to pay the greatest price for credit. Again and again, Americans have asked why the most fragile borrowers face the highest costs for access to the smallest loans. To protect low-wage workers in need of credit, reformers have repeatedly turned to law, only to face the vexing question of where to draw the line between necessary protection and overreaching paternalism.
City of Debtors shows how each generation of Americans has tackled the problem of fringe finance, using law to redefine the meaning of justice within capitalism for those on the economic margins. Anne Fleming tells the story of the small-sum lending industry’s growth and regulation from the ground up, following the people who navigated the market for small loans and those who shaped its development at the state and local level. Fleming’s focus on the city and state of New York, which served as incubators for numerous lending reforms that later spread throughout the nation, differentiates her approach from work that has centered on federal regulation. It also reveals the overlooked challenges of governing a modern financial industry within a federalist framework.
Fleming’s detailed work contributes to the broader and ongoing debate about the meaning of justice within capitalistic societies, by exploring the fault line in the landscape of capitalism where poverty, the welfare state, and consumer credit converge.

City of Debtors: A Century of Fringe Finance

Business & Money

Biography & History

Harvard University Press

Chivers

Thorndike Pr

Curiosities: A Novel

Literary

Knopf Canada

Like Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye, Anomaly explores the dynamics of female relationships in a Toronto that many people remember, but that no longer exists. Set in the 1970s as the city evolved into an international hub, the novel centers around four women: two sisters, Glynnis and Carol, just coming of age, their troubled mother, Mrs. Riggs, and an elderly neighbor, Miss Balls, whose most vivid memories are of her days as a young nurse in World War II. As the two girls struggle to navigate their stormy relationship, the events of a turbulent era are reflected in the lives of all four women. Each suffers a loss of innocence and so too does the city. Detailed, emotionally complex, and rich with exceptionally well-drawn characters, Anomaly is a debut novel that lives up to its promise.

Anomaly

Contemporary

Raincoast Books

Set in Toronto in the 1970s, this moving, evocative novel centers on four voices: those of sisters Glynnis and Carol, whose childhood traumas leave them ill-prepared for adulthood; that of their conflicted mother, Mrs. Riggs; and that of elderly neighbor Miss Balls, who lives in her memories of being a young nurse during World War II. Anomaly masterfully explores sisterhood and the loss of innocence  in particular, how two "anomalous" girls navigate a chaotic relationship and, more generally, how a society’s dizzying changes affect four women from three generations.

Anomaly: A Novel

The Goat

When Kid accompanies her parents to New York City for a six-month stint of dog-sitting and home-schooling, she sees what looks like a tiny white cloud on top of their apartment building. Rumor says there’s a goat living on the roof, but how can that be?

Children's Books

Animals

GROUNDWOOD BOOKS *

Review\nThe convoluted, intricate tale is filled with joy, sweet sadness, and a triumph of spirit. Lovely. ― Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW\nWith delicate insight and humor, Fleming cleverly unites people ― and goats ― from vastly different walks of life in an offbeat celebration of courage and individuality. ― Booklist, STARRED REVIEW\nA quirky, riotous story that uses a preposterous conceit to deftly veil much deeper issues and themes. ― Quill & Quire, STARRED REVIEW\nKid’s adjustment to New York City, her time in museums, and the warm and unusual neighbors make for a lively yet tender story. ― Publishers Weekly\nThe list of characters is long, and eccentricities abound, but so do charm and warm humor. Perfect for tweens who prefer quiet, character-driven novels and fans of E.L. Konigsburg. ― School Library Journal\nThe Goat takes a concept easiest told as zany and madcap, but isntead wisely presents it as perfectly ordinary. If Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach made a kids' movie … this would certainly be their script. ― National Post\nAt turns funny and affecting, this [is an] ingeniously knitted ensemble piece for 9- to 12-year-olds. ― The Wall Street Journal\nAn affectionate and quirky ode to Manhattan. ― Horn Book\nWhen Kid accompanies her parents to New York City, she discovers a goat living on the roof of her Manhattan apartment building― but she soon realizes a goat on the roof may be the least strange thing about her new home, whose residents are both fascinating and unforgettable. 
When Kid accompanies her parents to New York City for a six-month stint of dog-sitting and home-schooling, she sees what looks like a tiny white cloud on the top of their apartment building. 
Rumor says there’s a goat living on the roof, but how can that be? 
As Kid soon discovers, a goat on the roof may be the least strange thing about her new home, whose residents are both fascinating unforgettable. 
In the penthouse lives Joff Vanderlinden, the famous skateboarding fantasy writer, who happens to be blind. On the ninth floor are Doris and Jonathan, a retired couple trying to adapt to a new lifestyle after Jonathan’s stroke. Kenneth P. Gill, on the tenth, loves opera and tends to burble on nervously about his two hamsters ― or are they guinea pigs? Then there’s Kid’s own high-maintenance mother, Lisa, who is rehearsing for an Off Broadway play and is sure it will be the world’s biggest flop. 
Then Kid meets Will, whose parents died in the Twin Towers. And when she learns that the goat will bring good luck to whoever sees it, suddenly it becomes very important to know whether the goat on the roof is real. 
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: 
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.6 
Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations. 
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6 
Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described. 
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.9 
Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics.

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Murder in the Queen's Armes

Death and Deconstruction

City of Debtors: A Century of Fringe Finance

Death and Deconstruction

Death and Deconstruction

Curiosities: A Novel

Anomaly

Anomaly: A Novel

The Goat

The Goat