Hoffman, Alice
Summary: Ivy Jacob's ever-disappointed mother and stern father react badly to news of her teen pregnancy, prompting her to run away from her tiny Boston home for Western Massachusetts, where she's embraced by a group called The Community. There, she gives birth to her daughter, Mia, and marries the group's charismatic but controlling leader, Joel, when Mia is three months old. The Community's rules are...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOFCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HOFHoffman, Alice
Summary: One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community, an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction HoffmanGeorge, Nina
Summary: "Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015