A Novel Idea Book Suggestions-6/13/23


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Book cover for "Come fly the world"
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Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
"A ... portrait of the jet-age stewardesses serving on iconic Pan Am Airways between 1966 and 1975"--
Book cover for "The lioness"
Star rating for The lioness
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
"A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this ... historical thriller"--
Book cover for "Little house on the prairie"
Star rating for Little house on the prairie
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4.6 stars
Description:
A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
Book cover for "The moon sister"
Star rating for The moon sister
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 5.
Description:
"Tiggy D'Apliese spends her days experiencing the raw beauty of the Scottish Highlands doing a job she loves at a deer sanctuary. But when the sanctuary is forced to close, she is offered a job as a wildlife consultant on the vast and isolated estate of the elusive and troubled laird Charlie Kinnaird. She has no idea that the move will not only irrevocably alter her future, but also bring her face-to-face with her past"--Publisher marketing.
Book cover for "Sisters in arms"
Star rating for Sisters in arms
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
The untold, true story of the Six Triple Eight, the only all-Black battalion of the Women's Army Corps, who made the dangerous voyage to Europe to ensure American servicemen received word from their loved ones during World War II.
Book cover for "Untold power"
Star rating for Untold power
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"This portrait of the first acting woman president, written by a leading historian on women's suffrage and power, tracks the ascent of Edith Boling Galt Wilson, one of American history's most influential and complicated women"--
Book cover for "The vanishing half"
Star rating for The vanishing half
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
Book cover for "The white hare"
Star rating for The white hare
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"In the far west of Cornwall lies the White Valley, which cuts deeply through bluebell woods down to the sea at White Cove. The valley has a long and bloody history, laced with folklore, and in it sits a house above the beach that has lain neglected since the war. It comes with a reputation and a strange atmosphere, which is why mother and daughter Magdalena and Mila manage to acquire it so cheaply in the fateful summer of 1954. Magda has grand plans...
Book cover for "The wolf in the whale"
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"In 1000 AD, a young Inuit shaman and a Viking warrior become unwilling allies as war breaks out between their peoples and their gods-one that will determine the fate of them all"--
Book cover for "The women in the castle"
Star rating for The women in the castle
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold. Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined--an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Hazards of Good Breeding. Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany's defeat, Marianne...