I love the beautiful writing style, the pacing of the story, and the overall emotional connection I felt to the characters' obstacles and lives. I especially love how they overcame such tragic obstacles - it spoke to me.
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret
“One of the best books I’ve read in my entire life. It’s epic. It’s transportive . . . It was unputdownable!”—Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.com
The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of…
I love how it delves readers into the world of the deepest parts of the Vatican, and how the entire world works. It was written by an author with strong ties to the Vatican and it rang true. I learned a lot and was immersed in the story. Be ready for a lot of details and characters, but if you like this subject and want to learn how the world really works, this book is for you!
A young Chicago-born priest is called to serve in Rome and is soon drawn into an international intrique involving bishops, bankers, and the highest levels of the Catholic Church
This book completely immersed me into the tragedy of WWII. I loved the sisters' stories and loved how they each had their own way of dealing with life's horrific events. I did learn a lot of history, but mostly, I learned how people faced pure evil - it's a sobering but important lesson. I loved how Kristin Hannah paced the story as well...it was riveting and well-written. I cried at the end, which is rare, but it was a hopeful cry! This is a book that has stayed with me long after I turned the last page and I highly recommend it, along with all Kristin Hannah books. She is an excellent writer, with very well-written, immersive stories!!
Soon to be a major motion picture, The Nightingale is a multi-million copy bestseller across the world. It is a heart-breakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the endurance of women.
This story is about what it was like to be a woman during World War II when women's stories were all too often forgotten or overlooked . . . Vianne and Isabelle Mauriac are two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals and passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path towards survival, love and freedom in war-torn France.
1859 - Walker Valley, now known as Tremont, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, is just beginning its intricately woven community; a tapestry of freedom, unity, connection, and unconventional relationships.
Founded by one man, as comfortable in the mountains as if he were part of the peaks themselves, William Marion "Black Bill" Walker was a jovial, hard-working, savagely independent type, whose life centered around a unique interpretation of the Bible: married to three women. At the same time.
Surrounded by deeply religious folk, some tried in vain to teach him the errors of his ways. But he wouldn't have any of it, following Bible stories that he was sure God wanted him to follow.
Through exhaustive research, the author delves deep into this tapestry of unconventional relationships. Though a work of fiction, the people described are real, as are all major events. Within these pages are historical facts and exact quotes taken from some of the best sources, some from the very memoirs of the people themselves.
Join Bill Walker and Walker Valley as they face joys and tragedies, acceptance and doubts, and then, challenges to their very way of life; forced to adapt to the coming of the logging industry and, eventually, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
