The Secret of Lost Things

I just finished reading The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay. The stores in my Barnes & Noble region picked it as their Regional Recommends title. If you don't know, B&N has a new program where the home office picks a book and all the bookstores put their bookselling power behind it. Then we started doing the same thing at the regional level, and soon we will be doing it at the store level. But I digress: The book is about an 18-year-old girl from Tasmania whose mother dies. The girl is orphaned in the world and only has one friend to care for her. Her friend realizes she needs to see the world and buys her a one-way ticket to New York City. Once there, Rosemary Savage looks for a job and finds one at a bookstore called the Arcade. Staffed by a bunch of irregulars (who isn't at a bookstore??) Rosemary is shoved into a shady deal to recover a lost manuscript of Herman Melville. She comes of age in the novel and learns, finally, the secret of lost things. Click here to buy a copy: The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay