Book Club 2016 Voting by Carrie Reckling https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g #IssyBookClub en-us 2016-12-15 03:29:02 UTC 2016-12-15 05:01:55 UTC hello@padlet.com A Thousand Splendid Suns carrie_reckling https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143762595 Splendid Suns follows the lives of two Afghani women, Mariam and Laila, as they move from children to adults. The book spans 30 years, beginning with the Soviet invasion and ending with the overthrow of the Taliban. It's difficult to explain more of the story without spoiling the plot, but these two women go from being enemies to unlikely friends. A Thousand Suns is a moving story about the power of love, the bonds of friendship, the love of country, and the struggle to survive. I hated to see it end.]]> 2016-12-15 03:48:37 UTC https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143762595 Hamilton carrie_reckling https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143762661 Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton provides what may be the most comprehensive modern examination of the often overlooked Founding Father. From the start, Chernow argues that Hamilton’s premature death at age 49 left his record to be reinterpreted and even re-written by his more long-lived enemies, among them: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Monroe]]> 2016-12-15 03:50:10 UTC https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143762661 The Grand Sophy https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143763593 When Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on Diplomatic Business he parks his only daughter, Sophy, with his sister in Berkeley Square. Forward, bold, and out-spoken, Sophy sweeps in and immediately takes ton by storm. 

Upon her arrival, Sophy can see that her cousins are in a sad tangle: Ceclia is in love with a poet, Charles is engaged to a dour bluestocking, her uncle is of no use at all, and the younger children are in desperate need of some fun and freedom. They all need her help and it's providential that Sophy arrives when she does.

Utterly hilarious and completely endearing, The Grand Sophy is a fan favorite from The Queen of Regency Romance. Fans of Jane Austen, Julia Quinn, and Eloisa James will be delighted by Sophy, the outrageous lengths she goes to solve everyone else's problems, and the surprises in store for everyone!

]]> 2016-12-15 04:10:35 UTC https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143763593 We are all completely beside ourselves https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143763665 2016-12-15 04:12:08 UTC https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143763665 Orphan Keeper https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143763936 2016-12-15 04:18:24 UTC https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143763936 Seabiscuit https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143763963 2016-12-15 04:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143763963 Quiet https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764017 2016-12-15 04:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764017 Born a Crime https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764025 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •
Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.

Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. ]]> 2016-12-15 04:20:48 UTC https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764025 The Three Year Swim Club https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764085 2016-12-15 04:21:57 UTC https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764085 A Man Called Ove https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764185 2016-12-15 04:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764185 Freak the Mighty https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764240 2016-12-15 04:25:29 UTC https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764240 The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764267 2016-12-15 04:26:12 UTC https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764267 Britt-Marie was Here https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764336 2016-12-15 04:27:52 UTC https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764336 Nothing to Envy https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764482 2016-12-15 04:31:28 UTC https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764482 And the mountains echoed https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764485 2016-12-15 04:31:31 UTC https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764485 The Nightengale https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764489 story of two sisters in war torn France ]]> 2016-12-15 04:31:39 UTC https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764489 A Kim Jong Il Production https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764499 There was a time when the duo of Shin Sang-Ok and Choi Eun-Hee seemed unassailable. Shin was the extraordinarily successful South Korean movie director and producer; his beautiful wife Choi was his top star and muse, a woman who had elevated herself from a difficult early life to become the envy of men and women alike. From the late 50s until the early 70s, the duo ruled—but divorce, scandal, and diminishing star power brought them back to earth. Little did they know, it was about to get much, much worse. Paul Fischer’s A Kim Jong-Il Production is the bizarre and fascinating true story of Shin and Choi’s kidnapping by Kim Jong-Il, future Supreme Leader of North Korea (at the time he was son to the then-Supreme Leader). Shin and Choi, who were kidnapped in 1978, went on to make a number of films in North Korea (as the “guest” of Kim Jong-Il) before escaping to the U.S. in 1986. There’s a Through the Looking Glass feel to this book, despite it being extremely well-researched and believable, that makes it highly entertaining reading. I had a difficult time putting this book down until I was finished. – ]]> 2016-12-15 04:31:58 UTC https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764499 The Snow Child https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764520 1920's Alaska based family ]]> 2016-12-15 04:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764520 The Little Paris Book Shop https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764783 2016-12-15 04:36:39 UTC https://padlet.com/carrie_reckling/17lqlih72k0g/wish/143764783