https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub en-us 2018-05-01 16:39:31 UTC 2018-09-17 14:09:52 UTC hello@padlet.com tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256939165 An unforgettable memoir in the tradition of The Glass Castleabout a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University

]]> 2018-05-01 16:49:28 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256939165 tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256941559 An intellectual and emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel for readers of A. S. Byatt’s Possession and Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book.

]]> 2018-05-01 16:55:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256941559 tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256943255 The bestselling author of A Man Called Ove returns with a dazzling, profound novel about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to make it come true.

]]> 2018-05-01 16:58:38 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256943255 tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256949605 For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living?]]> 2018-05-01 17:10:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256949605 tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256967160 Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate—the first automobile any of them have seen—and a stranger arrives.]]> 2018-05-01 17:42:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256967160 tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256971722  For 91 days,  Immaculee and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding killers hunted for them. ]]> 2018-05-01 17:51:14 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256971722 tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256973954 Just 16 percent of female students, Black girls make up more than one-third of all girls with a school-related arrest. The first trade book to tell these untold stories, Pushout exposes a world of confined potential and supports the growing movement to address the policies, practices, and cultural illiteracy that push countless students out of school and into unhealthy, unstable, and often unsafe futures.]]> 2018-05-01 17:55:38 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256973954 tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256979332 In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. ]]> 2018-05-01 18:06:51 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256979332 tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256979983 Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from the late 19th century to the late 20th, from young love to last love. The Swan Thieves is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve human hope.]]> 2018-05-01 18:08:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256979983 tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256981234 A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.]]> 2018-05-01 18:10:42 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256981234 tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256985858 A young woman bearing an uncanny resemblance to Anastasia Romanov is pulled shivering and senseless from a canal in Berlin. Refusing to explain her presence in the freezing water, she is taken to the hospital where an examination reveals that her body is riddled with countless, horrific scars. When she finally does speak, this frightened, mysterious woman claims to be the Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia.]]> 2018-05-01 18:20:14 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256985858 tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256987223 For readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a "sensuous, captivating account of a forbidden affair between two women" (People)--Eleanor Roosevelt and "first friend" Lorena Hickok.

]]> 2018-05-01 18:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256987223 tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256987736 Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit. ]]> 2018-05-01 18:23:58 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256987736 tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256988791 Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier. ]]> 2018-05-01 18:26:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256988791 tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256990361 Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women's movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greer--madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can't quite place--feels her inner world light up. Then, astonishingly, Faith invites Greer to make something out of that sense of purpose, leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life as it winds toward and away from her meant-to-be love story with Cory and the future she'd always imagined. ]]> 2018-05-01 18:29:36 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256990361 tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256995297 Elfrida Phipps loves her new life in the pretty Hampshire village. She has a tiny cottage, her faithful dog Horace and the friendship of the neighbouring Blundells - particularly Oscar - to ensure that her days include companionship as well as independence. But an unforeseen tragedy upsets Elfrida's tranquillity: Oscar's wife and daughter are killed in a terrible car crash and he finds himself homeless when his stepchildren claim their dead mother's inheritance.]]> 2018-05-01 18:40:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/256995297 tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/257003342 Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking...
But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. ]]> 2018-05-01 18:56:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/257003342 tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/257004856 In a stunning work of insight and hope, New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb once again reveals his unmatched talent for finding humanity in the lost and lonely and celebrates the transforming power of the written word.]]> 2018-05-01 19:00:08 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/257004856 tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/257008084 A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.]]> 2018-05-01 19:07:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/257008084 tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/257212983 Two sisters: Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister's protector; Lucia, the vibrant, headstrong, unconventional one, whose impulses are huge and, often, life changing. When their mother dies and Lucia starts to hear voices, it's Miranda who must fight for the help her sister needs — even as Lucia refuses to be defined by any doctor's diagnosis. ]]> 2018-05-02 12:49:20 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/257212983 tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/257214188 When debut novelist Eliza Fontaine is found at the bottom of a hotel pool, her family at first assumes that it’s just another failed suicide attempt. But Eliza swears she was pushed, and her rescuer is the only witness.]]> 2018-05-02 12:52:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/257214188 tlinbladhensley https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/280798506 2018-09-13 13:00:05 UTC https://padlet.com/tlinbladhensley/facultybookclub/wish/280798506