Here are our next selections for bookclub:
Seventh Son (Tales of Alvin Maker #1) by Orson Scott Card
From the author of Ender’s Game, an unforgettable story about young Alvin Maker: the seventh son of a seventh son. Born
into an alternative frontier America where life is hard and folk magic
is real, Alvin is gifted with the power. He must learn to use his gift
wisely. But dark forces are arrayed against Alvin, and only a young girl
with second sight can protect him.
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
North
and South tells the story of Margaret Hale, a southerner newly settled
in the northern industrial town of Milton, whose ready sympathy with the
discontented millworkers sits uneasily with her growing attraction to
the charismatic mill owner, John Thornton. The novel poses fundamental
questions about the nature of social authority and obedience, ranging
from religious crises of conscience to the ethics of naval mutiny and
industrial action.
Austenland by Shannon Hale
Jane
is a young New York woman who can never seem to find the right
man—perhaps because of her secret obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by
Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. When a
wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to
Austen-obsessed women, however, Jane’s fantasies of meeting the perfect
Regency-era gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have
imagined.
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