Suggestions
for Summer 2008 Reading
courtesy of the Sawgrass Readers Book Club |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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Walter Isaacson
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Benjamin Franklin An American Life |
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