Olivia, Mourning by Yael Politis is a rich historical fiction novel set in the late 1800s in Pennsylvania. After the death of her father, 17 year old Olivia is determined to work on Fae's Landing, eighty acres of land her family inherited from her Uncle Scruggs. She brings along her close friend Mourning, the son of slaves, to help her work on the farm. With her strong-willed nature and Mourning's optimism, they make a great team despite the harsh living conditions they face.
The Osiris Curse is the second book in the Tweed and Nightingale Adventure series by Paul Crilley, which centers around two teenage detectives in London. The story follows Sebastian Tweed and Octavia Nightingale's investigation of the death of Nikola Tesla, the infamous engineer credited with inventing the Tesla coil. While investigating the crime, they find a potential correlation between the murder of Tesla and the disappearance of Nightingale's mother. Along the way, the friends encounter romance, secrets, villains, and new friends.
Without even reading Dickens's A Christmas Carol, we all know the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, the heartless, avaricious elder who is visited on Christmas Eve by an apparition of his dead business partner Jacob Marley and three other ghosts, of Christmas past, present, and future. In the end, we learn the ghostly encounter changes Scrooge for the better. Scrooge and Marley is a continuation of the story, picking up right where Dickens left off.
