Virginia May is positively chuffed to be a bookseller with Northshire. The daughter of a children's book illustrator, Virginia is a lifelong reader and writer (as well as actor, director, dramaturg, playwright, and teacher). She loves reading historical and fantasy fiction, mysteries, and plays/screenplays/teleplays. She is also a die-hard Shakespeare dork and Janeite. Please engage her in conversations about obscure and extraordinarily cool historical events, she loves learning niche history (and needs topics for future projects).
“I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman’s inconstancy. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men" - Jane Austen
$17.99
ISBN: 9780735269934
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Published: Penguin Teen Canada - September 21st, 2021
A sci-fi fantasy of epic proportions inspired by Chinese history and culture that subverts every expectation of YA literature! Set in a world under constant alien threat in which rigid gender roles and social class define everything, our protagonist Wu Zetian (inspired by Tang Dynasty China's first woman emperor of the same name), is set to tear down these structures no matter how violent and deadly the cost. ~ Reviewed by Virginia Edinger
$18.99
ISBN: 9781250254368
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Published: Wednesday Books - September 1st, 2020
This book has everything one could ask from a swashbuckling YA adventure set at sea: danger, romance, intrigue, and just a dash of magic. Fable is the exiled daughter of a ruthless sea merchant, scavenging as a deep-sea diver while working her way off an island of thieves near a dangerous strip of sea known as the Narrows. Hell-bent on revenge, she teams up with a rag-tag crew to exact it, but it won't be easy; after all, "The Narrows are the edge of a blade. You can’t live here and not get cut." ~ Reviewed by Virginia Edinger
$24.95
ISBN: 9780778801313
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Published: Robert Rose - May 1st, 2020
This book is my absolute preserving bible. It has clear, concise directions for everything you can imagine preserving, customized for each recipe included. It's the only book I trust to ensure I don't blow up my kitchen while canning my pasta sauces, jams, and pickles! ~ Reviewed by Virginia Edinger
$28.95
ISBN: 9780385547215
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Published: Doubleday - September 7th, 2021
This resounding, evocative, and heartrending memoir is one that will sit in the pit of your stomach long after you've finished. Wang's childhood living undocumented after immigrating from China to Brooklyn is filled with hardships that need to be read to be believed. For those who are privileged enough to not live these experiences, it is of vital importance to read stories like this so that we may begin to understand the struggles, roadblocks, and failing systems faced by those who come here seeking a better life. ~ Reviewed by Virginia Edinger
$18.99
ISBN: 9781547603909
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Published: Bloomsbury YA - June 29th, 2021
When Breseis --a teenager born with the ability to manipulate plantlife-- inherits a mysterious estate from a birth mother she's never known, she's left with a series of increasingly puzzling mysteries to solve about the origins of her powers, her birth family, and the puzzling secrets they hid. Inspired by The Secret Garden and Greek mythology, this contemporary fantasy is a beautiful and modern take on Gothic mystery. ~ Reviewed by Virginia Edinger
