Wasatch County Library

"The Dictionary of Lost Words is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical figures, are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Before the lost word, there was another. It arrived at the Scriptorium in a second-hand envelope, the old address crossed out and Dr Murray, Sunnyside, Oxford, written in its place. It was Da's job to open the post and...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs.
He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights

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Nottinghamshire, 1785. Julia Cummings has long been acquainted with loss--her mother, her brother, her sister, her friend, all gone too soon. But the loss that pushed her grief to the limit as a young girl was that of her best friend, Lucas Jonquil, who abandoned her without looking back. Now, eight years later, Lucas has returned to Lampton Park, and Julia has steeled herself--she will never forgive the man who broke her heart. After losing too many...

Eight years after Anne Elliot turned down Captain Wentworth's proposal of marriage, they meet again. Ann now recognizes the false values that persuaded her to reject Captain Wentworth, but his heart seems set upon the youth and beauty of the impetuous Louisa Musgrove.

Fleeing from the unwanted advances of a cruel master, chambermaid Annie Morgan--without family and tainted by scandal--finds safety in a marriage of convenience with widowed Welsh miner Evan Powell who dreams of immigrating to America. In the midst of Mormon missionaries preaching a strange new religion, disaster strikes her adopted Welsh town and Annie's troubled history can no longer be hidden.

Fanny Price goes to live with prosperous relatives at Mansfield Park and must navigate a labyrinth of intrigues and affairs among the occupants of the house.