tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77495429469154602742024-02-19T03:09:46.831-05:00Bound By BooksTinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05024201166896396673noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749542946915460274.post-53699201871293254332016-09-25T18:19:00.002-04:002016-09-25T18:23:21.657-04:00Our October Read<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZFoq2ohRwUENN0rlahJSX3WSNi0YvHz8Abw5k0Hk-ww13yYhpisjAqksqhXiQTRa2VnE3Ve7Vyz4F5_OSdkk0r1ecEHMIEVYPkX2V8tvgrehCV48dskVWBzu9yRkldKIbmuRWgAbl3PQ/s1600/STAND-THE-STORM-jacket.400.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZFoq2ohRwUENN0rlahJSX3WSNi0YvHz8Abw5k0Hk-ww13yYhpisjAqksqhXiQTRa2VnE3Ve7Vyz4F5_OSdkk0r1ecEHMIEVYPkX2V8tvgrehCV48dskVWBzu9yRkldKIbmuRWgAbl3PQ/s640/STAND-THE-STORM-jacket.400.jpeg" width="410" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; line-height: 21px;"></span><br />
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Even though Sewing Annie Coats and her son, Gabriel, have managed to buy their freedom, their lives are still marked by constant struggle and sacrifice. Washington's Georgetown neighborhood, where the Coatses operate a tailor's shop and laundry, is supposed to be a "promised land" for former slaves but is effectively a frontier town, gritty and dangerous, with no laws protecting black people.
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The remarkable emotional energy with which the Coatses wage their daily battles-as they negotiate with their former owner, as they assist escaped slaves en route to freedom, as they prepare for the encroaching war, and as they strive to love each other enough-is what propels STAND THE STORM and makes the novel's tragic denouement so devastating.Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05024201166896396673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749542946915460274.post-28540087130562284212016-08-31T18:29:00.000-04:002016-09-25T18:30:01.771-04:00Our September Read<span style="font-size: x-large;">Our September read, chosen by Kristin is "The History of Love" by Nicole Krauss.</span><br />
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Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author. Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer. He spends his days dreaming of the lost love who, sixty years ago in Poland, inspired him to write a book. And although he doesn't know it yet, that book also survived: crossing oceans and generations, and changing lives...<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"></span>Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05024201166896396673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749542946915460274.post-11498426506517126122016-07-30T18:35:00.000-04:002016-09-25T18:35:20.518-04:00Our August Read<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Our book for August chosen by Cynthia is "The Emporors of Chocolate."</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Corporate candy giants Milton Hershey and Forrest Mars built business empires out of one of the world's most magical, sought-after substances: chocolate. In </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">The Emperors of Chocolate</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">, Joël Glenn Brenner--the first person to ever gain access to the highly secretive companies of Hershey and Mars--spins a unique story that takes us inside a world as mysterious as Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. Packed with flavorful stories and outrageous characters that give the true scoop on this real-life candyland, </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">The Emperors of Chocolate</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"> is a delectable read for business buffs and chocoholics alike. Start reading and you'll soon be hungry for more.</span>Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05024201166896396673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749542946915460274.post-60552669643516470942016-05-24T13:43:00.003-04:002016-05-24T13:43:53.809-04:00May's book pick<h3>
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For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant.<br />
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It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington’s eight-oar crew team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did, going on to shock the world by defeating the German team rowing for Adolf Hitler. The emotional heart of the tale lies with Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not only to regain his shattered self-regard but also to find a real place for himself in the world. Drawing on the boys’ own journals and vivid memories of a once-in-a-lifetime shared dream, Brown has created an unforgettable portrait of an era, a celebration of a remarkable achievement, and a chronicle of one extraordinary young man’s personal quest.Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05024201166896396673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749542946915460274.post-4931694069591192272016-04-04T13:56:00.000-04:002016-05-24T13:57:08.585-04:00Our April Pick<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgISUaCES4Px_zW-EaOGPqSygvcsZ86La3e_zFKNNAUB_nDic7m87efHYIWF4fO9pQOkMTPPHJ52AOJjO75PO2htQGnb82RrvhtLopB1vW52FyvwD4bW9foFRHNVK06x46zRLtcxpiigjM/s1600/d6f84a2be2ad0c257968498eb77833aa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgISUaCES4Px_zW-EaOGPqSygvcsZ86La3e_zFKNNAUB_nDic7m87efHYIWF4fO9pQOkMTPPHJ52AOJjO75PO2htQGnb82RrvhtLopB1vW52FyvwD4bW9foFRHNVK06x46zRLtcxpiigjM/s400/d6f84a2be2ad0c257968498eb77833aa.jpg" width="247" /></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: large;">Our book choice for April is <u>The Choice </u> chosen by Terri.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">#1 New York Times bestseller Nicholas Sparks turns his unrivaled talents to a new tale about love found and lost, and the choices we hope we'll never have to make.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life - boating, swimming , and regular barbecues with his good-natured buddies -- he holds the vague conviction that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is, until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Spanning the eventful years of young love, marriage and family, THE CHOICE ultimately confronts us with the most heartwrenching question of all: how far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?</span>Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05024201166896396673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749542946915460274.post-74745311574722584842016-03-04T13:52:00.000-05:002016-05-24T13:53:30.247-04:00Our March Pick<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-large;">Our book choice for March was <u>The Bridge</u> chosen by Dela.</span><br />
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Now a Hallmark Channel movie event, The Bridge, along with prequel The Beginning, is a heartwarming story of two couples who find love in a bookstore and experience the sort of miracle that can only happen at Christmastime.<br />
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Ryan Kelly lives in Nashville after a broken engagement and several years on the road touring with a country music duo. Sometimes when he’s lonely, he visits The Bridge—the oldest bookstore in historic downtown Franklin—and remembers the hours he and Molly once spent there.<br />
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For over four decades, Charlie and Donna Barton have run The Bridge, providing customers with coffee, conversation, and shelves of classics—even through dismal sales and the rise of digital books. Then the hundred-year flood sweeps through Franklin and destroys everything. The bank is about to pull the store’s lease when tragedy strikes. Can two generations of readers rally together to save The Bridge? And is it possible that an unforgettable love might lead to the miracle of a second chance?Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05024201166896396673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749542946915460274.post-12601380846651029562016-02-05T13:48:00.000-05:002016-05-24T13:48:46.155-04:00February's Pick<h2 style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">"This just became one of my all-time favorites! In fact, this may be my favorite L.M. Montgomery book, and I'm a huge 'Anne' fan!...I loved the drama and the romance, and the beautiful descriptions of the Canadian wilds. What a great book! It's a treat to read, just a joy with every page!"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">"The sweetest romance I have ever read, full of laugh-out-loud moments and obnoxious 'villains'...on par with Jane Austen's best."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">"I finished reading The Blue Castle with the same engrossed delight I had in meeting Anne Shirley years ago."</span></div>
Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05024201166896396673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749542946915460274.post-35160921947391118742016-01-23T14:32:00.000-05:002016-01-23T14:32:18.083-05:00January's Book<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv_v_zf80h6Ur6NrecdT07cPZJFabczSOD1rrMT6k801P_L2NeFgNHiZlZzzQ3MqUB-T3V1Cu9Bv32HcOYk3aBBZybieveCcPn23d4rNzR-uewRS9hIG-tT5pPP3FV_J-EYPedUwNKy-M/s1600/the+secret+keeper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv_v_zf80h6Ur6NrecdT07cPZJFabczSOD1rrMT6k801P_L2NeFgNHiZlZzzQ3MqUB-T3V1Cu9Bv32HcOYk3aBBZybieveCcPn23d4rNzR-uewRS9hIG-tT5pPP3FV_J-EYPedUwNKy-M/s400/the+secret+keeper.jpg" width="258" /></a><br />
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Our book for January, chosen by Tina is The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton.</h2>
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During a picnic at her family’s farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson witnesses a shocking crime, a crime that challenges everything she knows about her adored mother, Dorothy. Now, fifty years later, Laurel and her sisters are meeting at the farm to celebrate Dorothy’s ninetieth birthday. Realizing that this is her last chance to discover the truth about that long-ago day, Laurel searches for answers that can only be found in Dorothy’s past. Clue by clue, she traces a secret history of three strangers from vastly different worlds thrown together in war-torn London—Dorothy, Vivien, and Jimmy—whose lives are forever after entwined. A gripping story of deception and passion, The Secret Keeper will keep you enthralled to the last page.<br />
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Our book for December chosen by Roz, is The Other Wise Man, by Henry Van Dyke.</h2>
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During the time of the birth of Jesus, a fourth Wise Man, Artaban, sells all his possessions to buy three precious jewels which he hopes to present to the newborn Christ Child. Although he planned to journey with the other three Magi to Bethlehem, he is delayed and fails to rendezvous with them. Artaban spends his whole life searching for the Christ, and in his search he gives away one, then two, and finally all three of his jewels to help others, but in the end his quest is fulfilled in unexpected ways. Although written more than a century ago, this is still a topical Christmas story for young and old that captures the true spirit of Christmas. Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05024201166896396673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749542946915460274.post-59572200916225458562015-10-30T21:20:00.000-04:002015-10-30T21:20:34.655-04:00November's Pick<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red;">November's book, chosen by Molly is The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom. </span></h2>
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“I pray that God forgive them...”<br />
<br />Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner. “Oh, the poor woman,” Corrie cried. “Yes. May God forgive her,” Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that it was for the souls of the brutal Nazi guards that her sister prayed.<br /><br />Both woman had been sent to the camp for helping the Jews. Christ’s Spirit and words were their guide; it was His persecuted people they tried to save—at the risk of their own lives; it was His strength that sustained them through times of profound horror.<br /><br />Here is a book aglow with the glory of God and the courage of a quiet Christian spinster whose life was transformed by it. A story of Christ’s message and the courage woman who listened and lived to pass it along—with joy and triumph!Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05024201166896396673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749542946915460274.post-51360433419138663882015-10-30T20:00:00.000-04:002015-10-30T21:41:14.181-04:00October's Pick<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #38761d;">October's book, chosen by Terri is Stella Bain, by Anita Shreve.</span></h2>
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"Shreve's 17<sup>th</sup> novel is a tragic yet hopeful story of love, memory, loss, and rebuilding....The novel is both tender and harsh....Shreve's thoughtful, provocative historical tale has modern resonance." ---<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br />
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Stella Bain has no memory of her past when she wakes up in a hospital bed in Marne, France. It is 1916, and she wears the uniform of a British war nurse but speaks with an American accent. As soon as she is able, Stella sets out for London, where she hopes to find answers. What she discovers-with the help of Dr. August Bridge, who takes an interest in her case-both shocks and startles. As Stella's memories come racing back, she must undertake a journey across the ocean to confront the haunted past of the woman she used to be.<br />
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In this gripping historical drama that transports us from Europe to America and back again, Anita Shreve weaves an engrossing tale about love and memory, set against the backdrop of a war that devastated an entire generation.
Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05024201166896396673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749542946915460274.post-13813266082194466162015-10-30T19:00:00.000-04:002015-10-30T21:43:37.727-04:00September's Pick<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: purple;">September's book chosen by Becky is Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls:</span></h3>
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So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls’s no-nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town—riding five hundred miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car and fly a plane. And, with her husband, Jim, she ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one of whom is Jeannette’s memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in <i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">The Glass Castle</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">.</span>
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Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds—against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn’t fit the mold. Rosemary Smith Walls always told Jeannette that she was like her grandmother, and in this true-life novel, Jeannette Walls channels that kindred spirit. <i>Half Broke Horses </i>is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen’s <i>Out of Africa </i>or Beryl Markham’s <i>West with the Night. </i>Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere.</div>
Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05024201166896396673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749542946915460274.post-40914824940771003932015-07-29T16:55:00.000-04:002015-07-30T18:53:18.145-04:00Our August Read<span style="font-size: x-large;">Our book for August, chosen by Ann is "The Thirteenth Tale."</span><br />
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Sometimes, when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Wtx26ESCxnTJecxLjlKixBcL65RUYpD-nFKeVHR0x2C4Q8lYfPKTNmizUKyavNCRRn2E5VG_DZgB5WU1OR00eoKKnlVWrQCxhjKOLsQE2CJOuBiY4w9PoiKg6sAJFOPOGXilNJ_VykQ/s1600/thirteenth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Wtx26ESCxnTJecxLjlKixBcL65RUYpD-nFKeVHR0x2C4Q8lYfPKTNmizUKyavNCRRn2E5VG_DZgB5WU1OR00eoKKnlVWrQCxhjKOLsQE2CJOuBiY4w9PoiKg6sAJFOPOGXilNJ_VykQ/s400/thirteenth.jpg" width="266" /></a>Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives for herself. Now old and ailing, she is ready to reveal the truth about her extraordinary existence and the violent and tragic past she has kept secret for so long. Calling on Margaret Lea, a young biographer troubled by her own painful history, Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good. Margaret is mesmerized by the author's tale of gothic strangeness -- featuring the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess,a topiary garden and a devastating fire. Together, Margaret and Vida confront the ghosts that have haunted them while becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves.Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05024201166896396673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749542946915460274.post-63013995260169745802015-06-30T16:51:00.000-04:002015-06-30T21:12:25.242-04:00Our July Read<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZPnBlb9QhlvBtd_Ur_3By3TQ5a8MXnFHfzwc2CQNfRSI66h5wd1gzLFmW3b4Z4stZm73Hu59LpxIa_rbmyshh71y72ucYR5lkE9QF-MB76vhYHcOZcXHreZIYb78d08cUzMLg46ixJPk/s1600/gilead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZPnBlb9QhlvBtd_Ur_3By3TQ5a8MXnFHfzwc2CQNfRSI66h5wd1gzLFmW3b4Z4stZm73Hu59LpxIa_rbmyshh71y72ucYR5lkE9QF-MB76vhYHcOZcXHreZIYb78d08cUzMLg46ixJPk/s400/gilead.jpg" width="262" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Our read for July, chosen by LeeAnn is Gilead.</span><br />
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Twenty-four years after her first novel, <i>Housekeeping</i>, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart. Writing in the tradition of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, Marilynne Robinson's beautiful, spare, and spiritual prose allows "even the faithless reader to feel the possibility of transcendent order" (<i>Slate</i>). In the luminous and unforgettable voice of Congregationalist minister John Ames, Gilead reveals the human condition and the often unbearable beauty of an ordinary life.
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<i>Gilead </i>is the winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.</div>
Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05024201166896396673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749542946915460274.post-48659512050807153312015-06-06T16:09:00.001-04:002015-06-06T16:15:20.528-04:00June's Read<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anyone desiring to understand more about Mormon Christianity could find no better guides than Terryl and Fiona Givens. Enriched with luminous insights from Western literature and philosophy. A lovely book! Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard and former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Reading this book is like experiencing Mormonism in high definition. By masterfully weaving together insights from the best books scripture and literature, theology and philosophy Terryl and Fiona Givens bring new depth to the fundamentals of their faith. Whether you know a lot or a little about Latter-day Saint doctrine, this book will both educate and inspire you. David E. Campbell, author of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us What if God were everything we are, only perfectly so? And what if those perfections included our vulnerability, our suffering, and our joy?<br />
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In the Givens masterful hands, the Mormon view of God comes alive in fresh and challenging ways. Mainstream Christians have much to learn from Mormonism, and this book is the place to start. Stephen H. Webb, author of Jesus Christ, Eternal God The God Who Weeps is unlike any book you ve read. The authors, Terryl and Fiona Givens, share five fundamental truths about the universe that their Mormon faith has taught them. Woven together into a coherent tapestry, we find these fundamental truths a compelling, inspiring, and reasonable picture suggesting who presides over this universe, where we came from, why we are here, and what might await us.Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05024201166896396673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749542946915460274.post-8214919696426367702015-05-01T16:05:00.000-04:002015-06-06T16:14:09.076-04:00May's Read<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">In May we are reading The Anatomist's Wife, chosen by Chris
Scotland, 1830. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir_cFMybWFypl1Tw2LjZRyhsiBifTXmsKjTJwnA_gtMvInoLM3cb1CcnzahUTzN-3OLtbwAn99lMdf9lBXAfudFGV5AcmSH2hT8ERx4UWy_IqvS_vUXeRzhRQ2Wgl0Nm8vOjcLhAHeBfk/s1600/anatomists.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir_cFMybWFypl1Tw2LjZRyhsiBifTXmsKjTJwnA_gtMvInoLM3cb1CcnzahUTzN-3OLtbwAn99lMdf9lBXAfudFGV5AcmSH2hT8ERx4UWy_IqvS_vUXeRzhRQ2Wgl0Nm8vOjcLhAHeBfk/s400/anatomists.jpg" width="254" /></a>Following the death of her husband, Lady Darby has taken refuge at her sister's estate, finding solace in her passion for painting. But when her hosts throw a house party for the cream of London society, Kiera is unable to hide from the ire of those who believe her to be as unnatural as her husband, an anatomist who used her artistic talents to suit his own macabre purposes.<br />
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Kiera wants to put her past aside, but when one of the house guests is murdered, her brother-in-law asks her to utilize her knowledge of human anatomy to aid the insufferable Sebastian Gage--a fellow guest with some experience as an inquiry agent. While Gage is clearly more competent than she first assumed, Kiera isn't about to let her guard down as accusations and rumors swirl.<br />
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When Kiera and Gage's search leads them to even more gruesome discoveries, a series of disturbing notes urges Lady Darby to give up the inquiry. But Kiera is determined to both protect her family and prove her innocence, even as she risks becoming the next victim...Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05024201166896396673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749542946915460274.post-21380602558382398342015-04-01T16:20:00.000-04:002015-06-06T16:20:35.214-04:00Our April Read<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end,
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High school sophomore Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a
split second when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to Earth, like "one
marble hits another." The result is catastrophic. How can her family
prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis are wiping out the coasts,
earthquakes are rocking the continents, and volcanic ash is blocking out the
sun? As August turns dark and wintery in northeastern Pennsylvania, Miranda,
her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of
their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the
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Told in a year’s worth of journal entries, this
heart-pounding story chronicles Miranda’s struggle to hold on to the most
important resource of all—hope—in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar
world. An extraordinary series debut! Susan Beth Pfeffer has written three
companion novels to Life As We Knew It, including The Dead and the Gone, This
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Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05024201166896396673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749542946915460274.post-6724458774378114892015-02-25T06:15:00.000-05:002015-02-25T06:15:00.310-05:00March's Read<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvoi6Q3OPSURRaEWZlHu_-iMwts6D6bSRB0X_ZD4wZQyZWScfy3IB6TM5eTGjSh8Q7cUI8x9XPO7LzdObXcCfHNjp6k0Vq2KWtXjw1s0-bzOupYrSSIZ-AEEONY0o61PNc171civAE1Is/s1600/Big+Little+Lies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvoi6Q3OPSURRaEWZlHu_-iMwts6D6bSRB0X_ZD4wZQyZWScfy3IB6TM5eTGjSh8Q7cUI8x9XPO7LzdObXcCfHNjp6k0Vq2KWtXjw1s0-bzOupYrSSIZ-AEEONY0o61PNc171civAE1Is/s1600/Big+Little+Lies.jpg" height="400" width="265" /></a><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Our book for the month of March, chosen by Jocelyn, is "Big Little Lies" by Liane Moriarty.</span><br />
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Sometimes it’s the little lies that turn out to be the most lethal. . . .<br />
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A murder… . . . a tragic accident… . . . or just parents behaving badly? <br />
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But who did what?<br />
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Big Little Lies follows three women, each at a crossroads:<br />
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Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny and biting, passionate, she remembers everything and forgives no one. Her ex-husband and his yogi new wife have moved into her beloved beachside community, and their daughter is in the same kindergarten class as Madeline’s youngest (how is this possible?). And to top it all off, Madeline’s teenage daughter seems to be choosing Madeline’s ex-husband over her. (How. Is. This. Possible?).<br />
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Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare. While she may seem a bit flustered at times, who wouldn’t be, with those rambunctious twin boys? Now that the boys are starting school, Celeste and her husband look set to become the king and queen of the school parent body. But royalty often comes at a price, and Celeste is grappling with how much more she is willing to pay.<br />
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New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for the nanny. Jane is sad beyond her years and harbors secret doubts about her son. But why? While Madeline and Celeste soon take Jane under their wing, none of them realizes how the arrival of Jane and her inscrutable little boy will affect them all.<br />
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Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.<br />
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Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05024201166896396673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749542946915460274.post-5874404671906338452015-02-01T18:03:00.004-05:002015-02-01T18:23:41.435-05:00February's Read<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBX6JJtZA7YPEH7qy2KbIfIP966B2Ny4yq-enYLnlXsq-vbvBKLwwGC_FWVBTuvXf0csy-vEsAeEnO2T0f1-olGrirhNHG5ZlT_MpjItQhvH7SAZULH22vSGSpR4uOoVHpxdS4PyX3t8g/s1600/all+the+light.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBX6JJtZA7YPEH7qy2KbIfIP966B2Ny4yq-enYLnlXsq-vbvBKLwwGC_FWVBTuvXf0csy-vEsAeEnO2T0f1-olGrirhNHG5ZlT_MpjItQhvH7SAZULH22vSGSpR4uOoVHpxdS4PyX3t8g/s1600/all+the+light.jpg" height="400" width="267" /></a><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Our book for February, chosen by Tina is "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr.</span></h2>
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From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Timesbest seller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.<br />
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Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.<br />
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In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.<br />
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Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.<br />
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Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05024201166896396673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749542946915460274.post-57714679551756787702014-12-22T21:16:00.005-05:002014-12-22T21:17:23.124-05:00January's Read<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjajlB3RTCukVKFCzQ03M74BH0z3VDi-K0WyDnM9deyS4_Vq0cIKZZPDiuD-exTJigBJ1dBF0n0MRR0OpKUVwJVvEmgIgfzvSllQ6CJP-kM9Ug7plsK_6TMovQ9oRVF7neZJ2ST0F3BZZk/s1600/wish-you-well-978033041969701.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjajlB3RTCukVKFCzQ03M74BH0z3VDi-K0WyDnM9deyS4_Vq0cIKZZPDiuD-exTJigBJ1dBF0n0MRR0OpKUVwJVvEmgIgfzvSllQ6CJP-kM9Ug7plsK_6TMovQ9oRVF7neZJ2ST0F3BZZk/s1600/wish-you-well-978033041969701.jpg" height="400" width="246" /></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">Our book for January, chosen by Roz is <u>Wish You Well</u> by David Baldacci.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">of greed and justice are about to clash over her new</span><br />
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<span class="elementTwo"><strong>From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <em>March</em>, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war</strong><br /><br />In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding - an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair - she begins to unlock the book's mysteries. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, tracing the book's journey from its salvation back to its creation.<br /><br />In Bosnia during World War II, a Muslim risks his life to protect it from the Nazis. In the hedonistic salons of fin-de-siècle Vienna, the book becomes a pawn in the struggle against the city's rising anti-Semitism. In inquisition-era Venice, a Catholic priest saves it from burning. In Barcelona in 1492, the scribe who wrote the text sees his family destroyed by the agonies of enforced exile. And in Seville in 1480, the reason for the Haggadah's extraordinary illuminations is finally disclosed. Hanna's investigation unexpectedly plunges her into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics. Her experiences will test her belief in herself and the man she has come to love.<br /><br />Inspired by a true story, <em>People of the Book</em> is at once a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity, an ambitious, electrifying work by an acclaimed and beloved author.</span> <a data-text-id="6485644083559855762" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1379961.People_of_the_Book#"></a>Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05024201166896396673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749542946915460274.post-14603405748415918402014-10-02T06:00:00.000-04:002014-10-02T06:00:07.367-04:00Our read for October<span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;">Our book for October is <u>The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie</u> byAlan Bradley was chosen by LeeAnn.</span><br />
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It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath.<br />
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<br />Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05024201166896396673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7749542946915460274.post-27391359704498067112014-09-07T19:24:00.002-04:002014-09-07T19:25:26.266-04:00A Good ReadI always read a few books in between our book club reads. I loved this book that I just finished and want to share it with you all. <span style="color: #0b5394;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><u>Major Pettigrew's Last Stand</u> by Helen Simonson. </span></span>I gave administrator rights to as many of you as I could . . . . If you get my e-mail you probably have the ability to post on this blog. I couldn't give that ability to everyone (sorry), but if you can, and feel like it, please share books that you love with the rest of us.<br />
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I loved this book from the first paragraph. A lot of the people who commented on Amazon's sight said that they had a hard time getting into the book, but that was not a problem for me. I love the way this author writes. <br />
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Major Pettigrew has a dry wit. I have a dry wit. I laughed and laughed throughout this book. The book isn't all funny though and does deal with serious things such as prejudice between races. Major Pettigrew is a stately old gent who is opinionated, and snarky (whatever that is!) A fun little romance!<br />
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The Major leads a quiet life valuing the proper things that Englishmen have lived by for generations: honor, duty, decorum, and a properly brewed cup of tea. But then his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But village society insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and her as the permanent foreigner. Can their relationship survive the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of culture and tradition?<br />
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I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old
Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle
old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her
writing skills. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant
entries. Her journals candidly chronicle the great changes that take place
within the castle's walls, and her own first descent into love. By the time she
pens her final entry, she has "captured the castle"--and the heart of
the reader--in one of literature's most enchanting entertainments.<o:p></o:p><br />
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I Capture the Castle is the first novel by English author
Dodie Smith, written in the 1940s when she and her husband (also British and a
conscientious objector) lived in California during WWII. She longed for England
and wrote of a happier time—unspecified in the novel (apart from a reference to
living in the 30's) but probably early in that decade — between the wars. Smith
was already an established playwright and later became famous for writing the
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The novel relates the adventures of an eccentric family, the
Mortmains, struggling to live in genteel poverty in a decaying English castle
during the 1930s. The first person narrator is Cassandra Mortmain, an
intelligent teenager who tells the story via her personal journal—a
coming-of-age story in which she is visibly maturing and by the end is no
longer a girl but a young woman. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 82 on
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