by Bryce Courtenay “I am Sylvia Honeyeater; I think myself born around 1196, and this is the story of my life.” From master storyteller Bryce Courtenay comes the colourful epic of Sylvia. Late twelfth-century Europe is torn by religious intolerance.” Overview by Google Books
Vanishing Acts
by Jodi Picoult “Delia Hopkins is your average young lady in New Hampshire. She has a search-and-rescue hound, Greta, as well as a fiancé, Eric, and a young daughter, Sophie. But as she plans her wedding, she starts having flashbacks of events that she can’t recall. The police show up and arrest her father Andrew […]
Velocity
by Dean Koontz “Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. But that is about to change. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. If you don’t take this note to the police and get them involved, […]
Lady Chatterly’s Lover
by D.H. Lawrence “Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1928. The first edition was printed in Florence, Italy; it could not be published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960.The book soon became notorious for its story of the physical relationship between a working-class man and an aristocratic […]
The Red Tent
by Anita Diamont “… a novel by Anita Diamant, published in 1997 by Wyatt Books for St. Martin’s Press. It is a first-person narrative which tells the story of Dinah, daughter of Jacob and sister of Joseph, a talented midwife and proto-feminist. She is a minor character in the Bible, but the author has broadened […]
Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert “In her early thirties, [the author] had everything a modern American woman was supposed to want – husband, country home, successful career – but instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she felt consumed by panic and confusion. This … is the story of how she left behind all these outward marks of […]
The Nightingale’s Nest
by Sarah Harrison “The story, set in 1929, is that of Pamela Griffe, a young woman widowed by the Great War, who goes to work for the charming and eccentric art dealer Christopher Jarvis and his wife Amanda. While there she meets John Ashe for whom she also begins to work, part-time. During this period […]
Measure of a Man
by Sidney Poiter The acclaimed actor reveals the passion, spirituality, and intellectual fervor that have driven his life and career, citing the elements of his childhood that gave him his sense of worth and ethics.” Overview by Google
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
by Kim Edwards Kim Edwards’s stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mother’s silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes that one […]
The Kite Runner
by Khalid Hosseini The Kite Runner is Hosseini’s first novel, and was adapted into a film of the same name in 2007. It tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who befriends Hassan, the son of his father’s Hazara servant. The story is set against a […]
