If you liked The Tiger’s Wife, by Tea Obreht, you might like:
Spokane Valley Library Book Club selection for Wednesday, February 20 at 2pm. Read the book, then join the discussion. Everyone is welcome! |
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 | Diffenbaugh, Vanessa | | The Language of Flowers | | After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, Victoria Jones is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings -- her gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others, even as she’s forced to confront a painful secret from her past. |
|  | Grissom, Kathleen | | The Kitchen House | | Seven-year-old Irish orphan with no memory of her past, arrives on a tobacco plantation where she is put to work as an indentured servant -- Lavinia is slowly accepted into the world of the big house, and when she marries the master’s troubled son, she finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds. |
|  | Hart, John | | Iron House | | Michael, an oddly moral hit man who’s on the run from his former mob associates, is searching for his frail brother, Julian, whom he has not seen since their childhood which was spent in the grim Iron House orphanage in the mountains of North Carolina, when he uncovers the corpses of other orphans in a compound belonging to Julian’s foster parents. |
|  | Johnson, Adam | | The Orphan Master’s Son | | Pak Jun Do lives with his father at a North Korean work camp for orphans, in which every citizen serves the state -- he works first as a tunnel soldier, and is then assigned as a kidnapper, snatching Japanese citizens with special skills, such as a particular opera singer or sushi chef, where failure could lead directly to the prison mines. |
|  | Morgenstern, Erin | | The Night Circus | | The circus arrives without warning -- it is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Behind the scenes, a duel is underway between two young magicians who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose -- unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. |
|  | Mueenuddin, Daniyal | | In Other Rooms, Other Wonders | | Passing from the mannered drawing rooms of Pakistan’s cities to the harsh mud villages beyond, Mueenuddin’s linked stories describe the interwoven lives of an aging feudal landownwer, his servants, members of parliament and farm workers, Islamabad society girls, and industrialists who have lost touch with th eland. |
|  | Ondaatje, Michael | | The Cat’s Table | | In the early 1950s, and 11-year-old boy in Colombo boards a chip bound for England -- as the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the narrative moves between the decks and holds of the ship, and toward the boy’s adult years, spinning a spellbinding story of a lifelong journey. |
|  | Otsuka, Julie | | The Buddha in the Attic | | Stories of a group of young women brought over from Japan to California as picture brides, nearly a century ago -- from their arduous journey by boat, their arrival in San Francisco, the back-breaking work, their struggles to master a new language and culture, and the arrival of a war that pulls them up by the roots again. |
|  | Pratchett, Ann | | State of Wonder | | As Dr. Marina Singh embarks upon an uncertain odyssey into the insect-infested Amazon, charged with finding her former mentor, a researcher who has disappeared while working on a valuable new drug, she will have to confront her own memories of tragedy and sacrifice, and journey into her own unforgiving heart of darkness. |
|  | Riggs, Ransom | | Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children | | A horrific family tragedy sets 16-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of the Home, and it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar, they may have been dangerous -- and, they may still be alive. |
|  | Russell, Karen | | Swamplandia! | | It’s a shabby tourist attraction deep in the Everglades, owned by the Bigtree clan of alligator wrestlers -- when Hilola, their star performer, dies, her husband and children lose their moorings, and Swamplandia! goes out of business, sending the abandoned siblings on individual perilous journeys away from home. |
|  | Stedman, M. L. | | The 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 journeys, and they become desperate for a child that she is unable to bear -- one day, a baby is found in a boat that washes ashore. |
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