If you liked The Snow Child, by Eowyn Ivey, you might like:
Spokane Valley Library Book Club selection for Wednesday, June 19, at 2pm. Read the book, then join the discussion. Everyone is welcome! |
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 | Benaron, Naomi | | Running the Rift | | Follows the progress of Jean Patrick Nkuba from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life -- he holds fast to his dream that running might deliver him, and his Rwandan people, from the brutality around them. |
|  | Coleman, Melissa | | This Life is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone | | Set on a rugged coastal homestead during the 1970s, a young writer is driven by the need to uncover the truth of a childhood tragedy and connect anew with the beauty and vitality of the back-to-the-land ideal that shaped her early years. |
|  | Gloss, Molly | | Wild Life | | It’s the early 1900s and Charlotte Bridger Drummon is a thoroughly modern woman, and the sole provider for her five young boys, when she joins a search party for a child lost in the Oregon wilderness -- she gets lost herself, and is rescued by a band of elusive, quasi-humans, becoming part of their extended family. |
|  | Krakauer, Jon | | Into the Wild | | In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, hunters found his emaciated corpse in an abandoned bus -- why did he die? |
|  | Livesey, Margot | | The Flight of Gemma Hardy | | When her widower drowns at sea, she’s taken from her native Iceland to Scotland, but the death of her doting guardian leaves her under the care of her resentful aunt, and it soon becomes clear that she is nothing more than an unwelcome guest -- until she takes a job as an au pair in remote Blackbird Hall. |
|  | Maguire, Gregory | | Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West | | When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in the classic tale, we heard only her side of the story -- what about the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? |
|  | Martel, Yann | | Life of Pi | | When he’s sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks and he finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. |
|  | Moustakis, Melinda | | Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories | | Born in Alaska to a family with a homesteading legacy, Moustakis examines the near-mythological accounts of the Alaskan wilderness that are her inheritance, and probes the question of what it means to live up to larger-than-life expectations for toughness and survival. |
|  | Short, Sharon Gwyn | | My One Square Inch of Alaska | | To escape the strictures of a 1950s industrial Ohio town, and her feelings of obligation to care for her helpless father and younger brother, she packs up their yellow convertible -- and with her brother Will, and his mut Siberian Husky named Trusty, and a road atlas, she sets off for the Alaskan Territory. |
|  | Stedman, M. L. | | A Light Between Oceans | | Seeking constancy after the horrors of WWI, Tom returns to Australia to become a lighthouse keeper on an isolated island -- he marries a sweet girl named Isabel, a young woman he met on his travels, and they become desperate fora child that she is unable to bear -- one day, a baby is found in a boat that has washed ashore. |
|  | Wallis, Velma | | Two Old Women: an Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival | | Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, and ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribes during a brutal winter famine. |
|  | Weisgarber, Ann | | The Personal History of Rachel DuPree | | When Rachel, hired to help in a Chicago boardinghouse, falls in love with Isaac, the boardinghouse owner’s son, he makes her a bargain: he’ll marry her, but only if she gives up her 160 acres from the Homestead Act so he can double his share. She agrees, and together they stake their claim in the forebodingly beautiful South Dakota Badlands. |
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