These books were suggested by group members as good but we didn't pick them. Don't want to lose a list of good books however!
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Book |
Author |
Suggested by |
Short synopsis |
| Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West |
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Roberta W. |
From Amazon.com In Maguire's Oz, Elphaba, better known as the Wicked Witch of the West, is not wicked; nor is she a formally schooled witch. Instead, she's an insecure, unfortunately green Munchkinlander who's willing to take radical steps to unseat the tyrannical Wizard of Oz.. Click for more. |
| The Love Word |
Betty |
Susan P. | Betty is a writer that Susan has worked with at poetry workshops. She thinks highly of her and thinks we would enjoy reading her book for our annual poetry selection. See chicorybluepress.com. |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | Katie | The novel follows the fortunes of Janie Crawford, a woman living in the black town of Eaton, Florida. Hurston sets up her characters and her locale in the first chapter, which, along with the last, acts as a framing device for the story of Janie's life. Unlike Wright and Ralph Ellison, Hurston does not write explicitly about black people in the context of a white world--a fact that earned her scathing criticism from the social realists--but she doesn't ignore the impact of black-white relations either |
| The House of Sand and Fog | Ceci | In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. | |
| Measuring America: How the United States Was Shaped by the Greatest Land Sale in History | Andro Linklater | Beth | American democracy was less a product of revolutionary war and constitutional ferment than it was of a particular way of measuring land, argues British historian Linklater in his delightful new study. |
| Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China | Jung Chang | Ceci | In Wild Swans Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. |
| The Shell Collector | Anthony Doerr | Chryso |
A collection of short stories... "The
stories take readers from the African Coast to the pine forests of
Montana to the damp moors of Lapland, charting a vast physical and
emotional landscape. Doerr explores the human condition in all it
varieties: metamorphosis, grief, fractured relatoinships, and slowly
mending hearts. ....Steeped in the mysterious connection between humans
and nature...."
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| The Confessions of Max Tivoli | Andrew Sean Greer | Khaled Hosseini | Out of the womb in 1871, Max Tivoli looked to all the world like a tiny 70-year-old man. But inside the aged body was an infant. Victim of a rare disease, Max grows physically younger as his mind matures. |
| Wives and Daughters | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
? Is this the right book ? |
Novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published serially in the Cornhill Magazine (August 1864-January 1866) and then in book form in 1866; it was unfinished at the time of her death in November 1865. Known as her last, longest, and perhaps finest work, it concerns the interlocking fortunes of several families in the country town of Hollingford. |
| Modoc | Ralph Helfer | Nancy | Modoc is the joint biography of a man and an elephant born in a small German circus town on the same day in 1896. Bram was the son of an elephant trainer, Modoc the daughter of his prize performer. The boy and animal grew up devoted to each other. When the Wunderzircus was sold to an American, with no provision to take along the human staff, Bram stowed away on the ship to prevent being separated from his beloved Modoc. A shipwreck off the Indian coast and a sojourn with a maharajah were only the beginning of the pair's incredible adventures. |