Suggestions for Summer 2008 Reading
courtesy of the Sawgrass Readers Book Club

 

Novels

Sarah Beth Martin

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The One True Ocean
A "what happened" tale of deep connections between past and present, love and loss, the dead and the living - set on the coast of Maine

Ann Hood

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The Knitting Circle
a story of hope and healing after tragedy strikes

Joanna Trollope

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Brother and Sister
Brought up by the same parents but born to two different mothers, Nathalie and David decide to search for their birth mothers

Peter Ho Davies

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The Welsh Girl
Set in North Wales just after D-Day

Jennifer Donnelly

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A Northern Light
Set in 1906 this novel includes romance, history, and a murder mystery

Nancy Geary

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Being Mrs. Alcott
Takes place on the North Shore of Massachusetts and on Cape Cod

David Ignatius

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Body of Lies
CIA thriller

Jeff Shard

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The Rising Tide
A nove of WWII

Pete Hamill

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North River
Depression Era 1930's NY

Jacquelyn Mitchard

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Still Summer

Caroline Graham

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Midsommer Murders (BBC TV Series)
Many light mystery novels set in small villages in England. TV series is available on DVD... fun to read and fun to watch

 

 

Novels

Historical Novels

Non Fiction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Historical Novels

Barbara Hambly

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Patriot Hearts

John Jakes

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The Gods of Newport

Janis Cooke Newman

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Mary - Mrs. A. Lincoln

Newt Gingrich et al

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Days of Infamy

William Martin

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The Lost Constitution

 

Non Fiction

Michael Bechloss

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Presidential Courage
Brave leaders and how they changed the world 1789-1989

Eric Larson

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The Devil in the White City
Chicago World's Fair circa 1893 - murder, history, and mystery

Bill Bryson

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many books
delightful accounts of his travels through America & England (on foot) - interesting and entertaining

Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill

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Black Mass
True story of unholy alliance between the FBI and the Irish Mob

Barack Obama

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Dreams from My Father

Walter Isaacson

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Benjamin Franklin
An American Life