When 17-year-old Woody is orphaned during the Dust Bowl, he rides the rails to New York City, where he happens upon two giraffes rescued from a hurricane.
He persuades the older man transporting the animals to take him on as a driver – even though he barely knows how to drive. He learns on the job, and off they go across the country to a zoo in San Diego.
West With Giraffes is poignant and funny, but most of all, the four main characters (including the two giraffes!) are so endearing. All of them form life-long bonds despite a bumpy start. I loved this novel, which is based on a true story.
An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America.
"Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes..."
Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave.
It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day…
This is the
most delightful and unique novel I have read in a while. Pick this up if you
need something funny and heart-warming.
Don Tillman, an
Australian scientist, is a naïve yet cultured man who suffers from what
appears to be Asperger’s. He tries so hard to understand and fit in the world,
but is baffled as to why people are so irrational, unorganized and emotional.
His tendency is to over-analyze and categorize everything. Don is on a hilarious
quest to find a wife through a methodical questionnaire that grows to 16 pages. Of course he falls in love with someone, who is a total mismatch!
The international bestselling romantic comedy “bursting with warmth, emotional depth, and…humor,” (Entertainment Weekly) featuring the oddly charming, socially challenged genetics professor, Don, as he seeks true love.
The art of love is never a science: Meet Don Tillman, a brilliant yet socially inept professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs the Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a sixteen-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers.
Rosie Jarman possesses all these qualities. Don easily disqualifies her…
The setting is
Ireland in the late 1970s. Our honest protagonist
is a coal merchant trying to make a living for his family. He is faced with a personal moral dilemma when
he learns the shocking rumors of the Magdalen Laundry are true.
Keegan portrays
Ireland with Irish sayings, dialect, and foods like soda bread, Ribena, and
Marmite. I loved her imagery: “she
keeled over on the cobblestones” and a river “as dark as stout.” This beautiful book is packed with
psychological subtleties, and her writing just flows.
"A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time." —Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers
Small Things Like These is award-winning author Claire Keegan's landmark new novel, a tale of one man's courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him…
Set in an emerald cloud forest in the final decades of the 1900s, this passionate novel reads like a South American version of Out of Africa. A Place in the World is the romantic-adventure story of a young biologist and a multicultural cast of characters.
When her Colombian husband leaves her on his family's coffee farm high in the Andes Mountains, Alicia struggles to make a life there for herself and her son even as guerrilla uprisings begin to threaten the area and a nearby volcano rumbles to life.
