Wednesday Novel Readers 2019

BOOK SUGGESTIONS FROM THE 2019 EVA PERRY LIBRARY WEDNESDAY MORNING NOVEL READERS BOOK GROUP

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Book cover for "The clan of the cave bear"
Star rating for The clan of the cave bear
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Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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SUGGESTED BY ROBBIE
Description:
An injured and orphaned infant carries within her the seed and hope of mankind in this epic of survival and destiny set at the dawn of prehistory.
Book cover for "The historian"
Star rating for The historian
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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SUGGESTED BY ROBERTA
Description:
A young woman finds old papers which begin to reveal an ancient and evil plot concerning Vlad the Impaler and the legend of Dracula, which may still be continuing.
Book cover for "The husband's secret"
Star rating for The husband's secret
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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RECOMMENDED BY ROBBIE
Description:
Discovering a tattered letter that says she is to open it only in the event of her husband's death, Cecelia is unable to resist reading the letter and discovers a secret that shatters her life and the lives of two other women. Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret, something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but...
Book cover for "Life after life"
Star rating for Life after life
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Notes:
LISA DOESN'T REMEMBER WHO SUGGESTED THIS, BUT IT'S ONE OF HER FAVORITES TOO
Description:
"What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards...
Book cover for "Magpie murders"
Star rating for Magpie murders
Series:
Magpie murders volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Notes:
RECOMMENDED BY LISA
Description:
When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan's traditional formula has proved hugely successful. Conway's latest tale has Atticus Pund investigating a murder at Pye Hall, a local manor house. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing...
Book cover for "The pillars of the earth"
Star rating for The pillars of the earth
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Series:
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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SUGGESTED BY ROBERTA
Description:
Set in twelfth-century England, this epic of kings and peasants juxtaposes the building of a magnificent church with the violence and treachery that often characterized the Middle Ages.