Reading Group Choices

Reading Group Choices PDF Author: Reading Group Choices
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975974476
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Get Book

Book Description

Reading Group Choices

Reading Group Choices PDF Author: Reading Group Choices
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975974476
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Get Book

Book Description


Reading Group Choices 2008

Reading Group Choices 2008 PDF Author: Reading Group Choices
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975974230
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Get Book

Book Description
A list of fiction and non-fiction books with summaries, author biographies, and conversation starters.

Picking Bones from Ash

Picking Bones from Ash PDF Author: Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555970249
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Get Book

Book Description
Ghosts lurk in the bamboo forest outside the tiny northern Japanese town where Satomi lives with her elusive mother, Atsuko. A preternaturally gifted pianist, Satomi wrestles with inner demons. Her fall from grace is echoed in the life of her daughter, Rumi, who unleashes a ghost she must chase from foggy San Francisco to a Buddhist temple atop Japan's icy Mount Doom. In sharp, lush prose, Picking Bones from Ash - by Marie Mutsuki Mockett - examines the power and limitations of female talent in our globalized world.

Reading Group Choices 2009

Reading Group Choices 2009 PDF Author: Barbara Mead
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Get Book

Book Description
Over 80 titles including summaries, author bio, and discussion questions for reading groups to enhance their reading discussion.

No! I Don't Want to Join a Bookclub

No! I Don't Want to Join a Bookclub PDF Author: Virginia Ironside
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141901748
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Get Book

Book Description
Too young to get whisked away by a Stannah Stairlift, or to enjoy the luxury of a walk-in bath (but not so much that she doesn't enjoy comfortable shoes), Marie is all the same getting on in years - and she's thrilled about it. She's a bit preoccupied about whether to give up sex - Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! - but there are compensations, like falling in love with her baby grandson, and maybe falling in love with someone else too? Curmudgeonly, acute, touching and funny, this diary is what happens when grumply old women meet Bridget Jones.

Haven Point

Haven Point PDF Author: Virginia Hume
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 125026653X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341

Get Book

Book Description
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER "The book equivalent of a beach getaway." —PopSugar "A stunning debut." —BookRiot A sweeping debut novel about the generations of a family that spends summers in a seaside enclave on Maine's rocky coastline, for fans of Elin Hilderbrand, Beatriz Williams, and Sarah Blake. 1944: Maren Larsen is a blonde beauty from a small Minnesota farming town, determined to do her part to help the war effort––and to see the world beyond her family’s cornfields. As a cadet nurse at Walter Reed Medical Center, she’s swept off her feet by Dr. Oliver Demarest, a handsome Boston Brahmin whose family spends summers in an insular community on the rocky coast of Maine. 1970: As the nation grapples with the ongoing conflict in Vietnam, Oliver and Maren are grappling with their fiercely independent seventeen-year-old daughter, Annie, who has fallen for a young man they don’t approve of. Before the summer is over a terrible tragedy will strike the Demarests––and in the aftermath, Annie vows never to return to Haven Point. 2008: Annie’s daughter, Skye, has arrived in Maine to help scatter her mother’s ashes. Maren knows that her granddaughter inherited Annie’s view of Haven Point: despite the wild beauty and quaint customs, the regattas and clambakes and sing-alongs, she finds the place––and the people––snobbish and petty. But Maren also knows that Annie never told Skye the whole truth about what happened during that fateful summer. Over seven decades of a changing America, through wars and storms, betrayals and reconciliations, Haven Point explores what it means to belong to a place, and to a family, which holds as tightly to its traditions as it does its secrets.

The Song Poet

The Song Poet PDF Author: Kao Kalia Yang
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1627794956
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Get Book

Book Description
From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawing on folk tales, he keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award-winning book The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father Bee Yang, the song poet, a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by American's Secret War. Bee lost his father as a young boy and keenly felt his orphanhood. He would wander from one neighbor to the next, collecting the things they said to each other, whispering the words to himself at night until, one day, a song was born. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. But the songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a Minneapolis housing project and on the factory floor until, with the death of Bee's mother, the songs leave him for good. But before they do, Bee, with his poetry, has polished a life of poverty for his children, burnished their grim reality so that they might shine. Written with the exquisite beauty for which Kao Kalia Yang is renowned, The Song Poet is a love story -- of a daughter for her father, a father for his children, a people for their land, their traditions, and all that they have lost.

Reading Group Choices 2001

Reading Group Choices 2001 PDF Author: Reading Group Choices
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964487666
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 108

Get Book

Book Description


Reading Group Choices 2010

Reading Group Choices 2010 PDF Author: Reading Group Choices
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975974254
Category : Book clubs (Discussion groups)
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Get Book

Book Description
over 70 titles for selection for lively book discussion for reading groups and book clubs

Hannah's Dream

Hannah's Dream PDF Author: Diane Hammond
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061982644
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Get Book

Book Description
An elephant never forgets . . . but can she dream? For forty-one years, Samson Brown has been caring for Hannah, the lone elephant at the down-at-the-heels Max L. Biedelman Zoo. Having vowed not to retire until an equally loving and devoted caretaker is found to replace him, Sam rejoices when smart, compassionate Neva Wilson is hired as the new elephant keeper. But Neva quickly discovers what Sam already knows: that despite their loving care, Hannah is isolated from other elephants and her feet are nearly ruined from standing on hard concrete all day. Using her contacts in the zookeeping world, Neva and Sam hatch a plan to send Hannah to an elephant sanctuary—just as the zoo's angry, unhappy director launches an aggressive revitalization campaign that spotlights Hannah as the star attraction, inextricably tying Hannah's future to the fate of the Max L. Biedelman Zoo. A charming, poignant, and captivating novel certain to enthrall readers of Water for Elephants, Diane Hammond's Hannah's Dream is a beautifully told tale rich in heart, humor, and intelligence.