View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Great Catch, A: A Novel (Lake Manawa Summers)

by Lorna Seilstad

Published: 2011-05-01

Kindle Edition: 385 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

It is the beginning of a new century at Lake Manawa Resort in Iowa, but some things never change. When 22-year-old Emily Graham's meddlesome aunts and grandmother take it upon themselves to find her a husband among the resort guests, the spunky suffragist is determined to politely decline ...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Great Catherine: The Life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia

by Carolly Erickson

Published: 1995-08-15

Paperback: 400 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

From the moment the fourteen-year-old Princess Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst agreed to marry the heir to the Russian throne, she was mired in a quicksand of intrigue. Precociously intelligent, self-confident, and attractive but with a stubborn, wayward streak, Sophia withstood a degree of emotio...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

The Great Christmas Bowl

by Susan May Warren

Published: 2009-08-31

Paperback: 176 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

Marianne Wallace is focused on two things this holiday season: planning the greatest family Christmas ever and cheering on her youngest son's team in their bid for the state championship. Disaster strikes when the team loses their mascot?the Trout. Is it going too far to ask her to don the costume? So...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

The Great Crash 1929

by John Kenneth Galbraith

Published: 2009-09-10

Paperback: 224 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

The classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, with an introduction by economist James K. Galbraith   Of John Kenneth Galbraith's The Great Crash 1929, the Atlantic Monthly said: "Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value, but this book is. Galbraith's pr...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

The Great Days

by Eli Brown

Published: 2008-11-01

Paperback: 288 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

Told through the eyes and experience of Brother August, this disturbing tale of megalomania and submission takes place as a spiritual community in the sparse Arizona desert prepares for the Great Days, a period of enlightenment, to arrive. When Papa, the cult leader, takes a ten-year-old g...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Great Deliverance

by Elizabeth George

Published: 2004-06-07

Hardcover: 320 pages

1 member reading this now
4 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Great Detective Stories: The Purloined Letter, the Crooked Man, the Man in the Passage [With Earbuds] (Playaway Adult Fiction)

by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton

Published: 2008-11

Preloaded Digital Audio Player: 0 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Click on the ORANGE Amazon Button for Book Description & Pricing Info

View Reading GUide

* * * * * Life Changing,
Inspiring,
Adventurous

Be the first to rate this book!

The Great Divorce

Hardcover: 160 pages

2 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

What if anyone in Hell could take a bus trip to Heaven and stay there forever if they wanted to? In The Great Divorce C. S. Lewis again employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory. The writer finds himself in Hell boarding a bus bound for Heaven. The amazing opportunity is th...

View Reading GUide

* * * * * Inspiring,
Epic,
Life Changing

1 club review

Review This book

The Great Divorce

by C. S. Lewis

Published: 2001-02

Paperback: 160 pages

5 members reading this now
16 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christian allegorical tale about a bus ride from hell to heaven. An extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment, Lewis’s revolutionary idea in the The Great Divorce is that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside. Usin...

View Reading GUide

* * * * Brilliant,
Interesting,
Informative

1 club review

Review This book

The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times

by Ilyon Woo

Published: 2010-08-10

Hardcover: 416 pages

0 members reading this now
2 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Recommended to book clubs by 1 of 1 members

Ilyon Woo's The Great Divorce is the dramatic, richly textured story of one of nineteenth-century America's most infamous divorce cases, in which a young mother single-handedly challenged her country's notions of women's rights, family, and marriage itself.In 1814, Eunice Chapman came home...