Here's a list of their recommended reads and the year that they were ... The Wind
Is Not A River / Brian Payton ... The silent wife : a novel / A.S.A. Harrison.
January 2014 Roundtable Results – IN WITH THE NEW! Roundtable readers met to discuss “new” books. Here’s a list of their recommended reads and the year that they were published. ( comments in italics from Amazon.ca)
2014 The Wind Is Not A River / Brian Payton Set in Japanese-occupied Alaska—an unforgettable tale of survival, and a gripping love story for the ages
A Fairy tale / Jonas Bengtsson. From one of Denmark’s rising stars, a powerful and profound novel about a young boy and his father who live at the margins of society, until one day their adventure takes an unpredictable turn.
2013 School’s out! / Jack Sheffield A warm, funny and semi-autobiographical story in the tradition of James Herriot, about a year in the life of a Yorkshire primary school in the late 1970s. Six titles in the series
The silent wife : a novel / A.S.A. Harrison. Longbourn / Jo Baker. A brilliantly imagined, irresistible below-stairs answer to Pride and Prejudice: a story of the romance, intrigue and drama among the servants of the Bennet household.
The goldfinch / Donna Tartt. The signature of all things / Elizabeth Gilbert. —from London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam, and beyond. Along the way, the story is peopled with unforgettable characters: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad.
The whole enchilada / Diane Mott Davidson. Caterer and sleuth extraordinaire Goldy Schulz jumps from the frying pan into the fire as she tries to solve a puzzling murder that is much too close to home.
Mennonite meets Mr. Right : a memoir of faith, hope, and love / Rhoda Janzen. The sweethearts : tales of love, laughter and hardship from the Yorkshire Rowntree's girls / Lynn Russell, Neil Hanson. 2012 The 100-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared / Jonas Jonasson ; translated from the original Swedish by Rod Bradbury. Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail / Cheryl Strayed. Wild" powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.
Beautiful ruins : a novel / Jess Walter. 2011
Rules of civility / Amor Towles.
2008
Good to a fault / Marina Endicott.
2010
Whistlin' Dixie in a nor'easter / Lisa Patton.
