The Midnight Dress

• Author : Karen Foxlee
• Publisher : Ember
• Release Date : 2015-02-10
• ISBN : 9780375847653

Rose is used to traveling around with her alcoholic father but connects with the people of a small, coastal Australian town, especially Pearl and reclusive Edie, who teaches her to sew a dress for the Harvest Festival while a mystery unfolds.

• Author : Karen Foxlee
• Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Release Date : 2013-10-08
• ISBN : 9780449818213

Quiet misfit Rose doesn't expect to fall in love with the sleepy beach town of Leonora. Nor does she expect to become fast friends with beautiful, vivacious Pearl Kelly, organizer of the high school float at the annual Harvest Festival parade. It's better not to get too attached when Rose and her father live on the road, driving their caravan from one place to the next whenever her dad gets itchy feet. But Rose can't resist the mysterious charms of

• Author : Karen Foxlee
• Publisher : Hot Key Books
• Release Date : 2013-11-07
• ISBN : 9781471402364

A tense and moving psychological thriller about choices, power and magic... All her life, Rose Lovell has moved from town to town with her alcoholic father. When they wash up in an Australian coastal sugarcane town, Rose wonders if maybe, finally, things will be different this time. On her first day at school, Rose meets Pearl Kelly, a popular, pretty and lively girl intent on tracking down her long-lost Russian father. She convinces Rose to join in with the town's

• Author : C. L. Polk
• Publisher : Erewhon Books
• Release Date : 2020-10-13
• ISBN : 9781645660149

From the beloved World Fantasy Award-winning author of Witchmark comes a sweeping, romantic new fantasy set in a world reminiscent of Regency England, where women’s magic is taken from them when they marry. A sorceress must balance her desire to become the first great female magician against her duty to her family. Beatrice Clayborn is a sorceress who practices magic in secret, terrified of the day she will be locked into a marital collar that will cut off her

• Author : Alicia Jasinska
• Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
• Release Date : 2021-12-28
• ISBN : 9781728210025

"Within a fiercely beautiful, cruel world, three young servants of three deadly witches change each other's lives forever. Alicia Jasinska's lush, darkly romantic The Midnight Girls is the subversive sapphic monster girl fantasy you've been waiting for."—Maya Gittelman, Tor.com In a snow-cloaked kingdom, two wicked rivals secretly compete for the pure heart of a prince, only to discover they might be falling for each other. Karnawał season is a time for mischief and revelry. For the next few

• Author : Sofia Grant
• Publisher : HarperCollins
• Release Date : 2017-07-25
• ISBN : 9780062499738

A perfect debut novel is like a perfect dress—it’s a “must have” and when you “try it on” it fits perfectly. In this richly patterned story of sisterhood, ambition, and reinvention Sofia Grant has created a story just right for fans of Vintage and The Dress Shop of Dreams. World War II has ended and American women are shedding their old clothes for the gorgeous new styles. Voluminous layers of taffeta and tulle, wasp waists, and beautiful color—

• Author : Kristin Lambert
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2020-05-12
• ISBN : 9780593113691

A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue meets Miss Fisher's Murder Mystery in this rollicking romp of truth, lies, and troubled pasts. New Year's Eve, 1929. Millie is running the show at the Cloak & Dagger, a swinging speakeasy in the French Quarter, while her aunt is out of town. The new year is just around the corner, and all of New Orleans is out to celebrate, but even wealthy partiers' diamond earrings can't outshine the real star of the night: the

• Author : Karen Foxlee
• Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
• Release Date : 2009
• ISBN : 9781442985438

Ten-year-old Jennifer Day lives in a small mining town full of secrets. Trying to make sense of the sudden death of her teenage sister Beth, she looks to the adult world around her for answers.

• Author : Karen Foxlee
• Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Release Date : 2014
• ISBN : 9780385753548

Ophelia, a timid eleven-year-old girl grieving her mother, suspends her disbelief in things non-scientific when a boy locked in the museum where her father is working asks her to help him complete an age-old mission.

• Author : Courtney Cole
• Publisher : HarperCollins
• Release Date : 2021-11-09
• ISBN : 9780063099869

An enchanted Christmas dress brings two generations of women together for the magic of the season in this delightful holiday story from New York Times bestselling author Courtney Cole. One Dress. Two Women. The Magic of the Holiday Season. When hopeful fashionista Meg Julliard must return to her hometown of Chicago to manage her late father’s apartment building, she thinks her dreams of making it in the fashion business are over. Add in her father’s eclectic roster of

• Author : Shonna Slayton
• Publisher : Amaretto Press
• Release Date : 2018-06-23
• ISBN : 9780997449983

"CINDERELLA'S DRESS was like a stroll through the 1940's with a magical twist and a sprinkling of fashion. Highly recommend for all in need of a happily ever after." On the home front in 1944, Kate wants to do her part for the war effort. She'd prefer filling in for the window dressers at the New York department store where she works, but her mother insists on sending her to audition for roles she never gets. When relatives arrive from war-torn

• Author : David Walliams
• Publisher : HarperCollins UK
• Release Date : 2009-06-25
• ISBN : 9780007302086

The sparkling debut children’s novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children’s author in the country.

• Author : David Sedaris
• Publisher : Little, Brown
• Release Date : 2004-06-01
• ISBN : 9780759511217

David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is

• Author : Karen Foxlee
• Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Release Date : 2016-08-02
• ISBN : 9780553512878

From the author of Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy comes the story of a friendship between two girls set in Victorian England, with magical machines, wizards, witches, a mysterious underworld, and a race against time. Annabel Grey is primed for a proper life as a young lady in Victorian England. But when her mother suddenly disappears, she’s put in the care of two eccentric aunts who thrust her into a decidedly un-ladylike life, full of potions and flying broomsticks

• Author : Liz Tolsma
• Publisher : Thorndike Press Large Print
• Release Date : 2021-11-24
• ISBN : 1432881868

Meet a Boston dressmaker in 1886 who is surrounded by mysterious deaths when Harriet Peters hires Sarah Jane Robinson to make a new dress.