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As the months pass, Yung Ling finds herself intimately drawn to the gardener and his art, while all around them a communist guerrilla war rages. But the Garden of Evening Mists remains a place of mystery. Who is Aritomo and how did he come to leave Japan? And is the real story of how Yun Ling managed to survive the war perhaps the darkest secret of all?]]> 335 Tan Twan Eng 1602861803 Beth 3 reading-list-2014, 2023 4.12 2011
author: Tan Twan Eng
name: Beth
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2011
rating: 3
read at: 2014/07/22
date added: 2023/01/23
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Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well. And the Azkaban guards heard Black muttering in his sleep, "He's at Hogwarts...he's at Hogwarts."

Harry Potter isn't safe, not even within the walls of his magical school, surrounded by his friends. because on top of it all, there may well be a traitor in their midst.

(front flap)]]> 435 J.K. Rowling Beth 5 reading-list-2014, 2021 4.57 1999
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Beth
average rating: 4.57
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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]]> 6588662 Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step . . .

Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, raising her seventeenth white child. She's always taken orders quietly, but lately it leaves her with a bitterness she can no longer bite back. Her friend Minny has certainly never held her tongue, or held on to a job for very long, but now she's working for a newcomer with secrets that leave her speechless. And white socialite Skeeter has just returned from college with ambition and a degree but, to her mother's lament, no husband. Normally Skeeter would find solace in Constantine, the beloved maid who raised her, but Constantine has inexplicably disappeared.

Together, these seemingly different women join to work on a project that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town—to write, in secret, a tell-all book about what it's really like to work as a black maid in the white homes of the South. Despite the terrible risks they will have to take, and the sometimes humorous boundaries they will have to cross, these three women unite with one intention: hope for a better day.

Includes an essay by Katherine Stockett and a Reading Group Guide]]> 534 Kathryn Stockett 0425232204 Beth 5 reading-list-2014, 2018 4.47 2009
author: Kathryn Stockett
name: Beth
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2009
rating: 5
read at: 2014/07/27
date added: 2018/11/22
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Following A Voice in the Wind and An Echo in the Darkness, As Sure as the Dawn continues the chronicles of Hadassah, a Christian slave woman living during the height of the Roman Empire. She has saved the life of the scorned child of a disreputable Roman woman and the Germanic gladiator, Atretes. For her faith, Hadassah now languishes in condemnation, awaiting death in a dungeon beneath the arena. Atretes, who holds fast to his dreams of revenge for the slaughter of his people, wants his son back. So he seeks out John the Beloved, who is the key to finding the custodian of his son, and brings his war-weary soul closer to redemption.]]> 520 Francine Rivers Beth 4 reading-list-2014, 2016 4.40 1995
author: Francine Rivers
name: Beth
average rating: 4.40
book published: 1995
rating: 4
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]]> 46601 The political intrigue of the imperial city provides a dramatic backdrop for Marcus' spiritual quest. This rich and unforgettable work achieves even greater impact through Richard Ferrone's dramatic narration.]]> 461 Francine Rivers Beth 5 reading-list-2014, 2015 4.63 1994
author: Francine Rivers
name: Beth
average rating: 4.63
book published: 1994
rating: 5
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author: Francine Rivers
name: Beth
average rating: 4.57
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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author: Francine Rivers
name: Beth
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2001
rating: 4
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]]> 1406581 304 Linda Dillow 1576833909 Beth 0 reading-list-2014 4.19 2007
author: Linda Dillow
name: Beth
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2007
rating: 0
read at: 2014/11/30
date added: 2014/11/30
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]]> 2625511 304 Davis Bunn 0849944856 Beth 4 reading-list-2014 3.72 2005
author: Davis Bunn
name: Beth
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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]]> 1212780 385 Ami McKay 0061135879 Beth 3 reading-list-2014 3.96 2006
author: Ami McKay
name: Beth
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2006
rating: 3
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]]> 2709531 From the villages of eighteenth-century Scotland to the colonies of America, Christine Blevins takes us on a richly imagined, perilous adventure, as one woman seeks the life she deserves...

They called her Dark Maggie for her thick black hair, but the name also had a more sinister connotation. As the lone survivor of an attack on her village, she was thought to be cursed—and unfit for marriage.

Maggie is not cursed but gifted with quick wits, skilled in medicine, and trained as a midwife. Venturing to the colonies as an indentured servant, she hopes to escape the superstitions of the old country, help women bring new life into the world, even in the most primitive and isolated corners of an unsettled land—and find a home of her own.

What she discovers is a New World fraught with new dangers—and, having given up her own freedom to join a people that yearn to be free, she must rely on her talent for survival now more than ever...]]> 417 Christine Blevins 0425221687 Beth 2 reading-list-2014 3.50 2008
author: Christine Blevins
name: Beth
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2008
rating: 2
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]]> 2657 "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

"To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film.]]> 323 Harper Lee 0060935464 Beth 5 4.25 1960
author: Harper Lee
name: Beth
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1960
rating: 5
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]]> 3851380 Let me tell you all I know for sure. My name. Shauna.

I woke up in a hospital bed missing six months of my memory. In the room was my loving boyfriend—how could I have forgotten him?—my uncle and my abusive stepmother. Everyone blames me for the tragicĚýcar accident that left me near death and my dear brother brain damaged. But what they say can't be true—can it?

I believe the medicine is doing strange things to my memory. I'm unsure who I can trust and who I should run from. And I'm starting to remember things I've never known. Things not about me. I think I'm going crazy.

And even worse, I think they want to kill me.

But who? And for what? Is dying for the truth really better than living with a lie?]]> 322 Ted Dekker 1595544704 Beth 4 3.78 2009
author: Ted Dekker
name: Beth
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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When bizarre things start happening in the rooms of the home, Micah suspects they have some connection to his enigmatic new friend, Rick, the town mechanic. But Rick will only say the house is spiritual. This unnerves Micah because his faith slipped away like the tide years ago, and he wants to keep it that way. But as he slowly discovers, the home isn’t just spiritual, it’s a physical manifestation of his soul, which God uses to heal Micah’s darkest wounds and lead him into an astonishing new destiny.
]]> 385 James L. Rubart 0805448888 Beth 4 reading-list-2014 3.85 2010
author: James L. Rubart
name: Beth
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2010
rating: 4
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]]> 84119 The Horse and his Boy is a stirring and dramatic fantasy story that finds a young boy named Shasta on the run from his homeland with the talking horse, Bree. When the pair discover a deadly plot by the Calormen people to conquer the land of Narnia, the race is on to warn the inhabitants of the impending danger and to rescue them all from certain death.]]> 224 C.S. Lewis 0439861365 Beth 0 reading-list-2014 3.92 1954
author: C.S. Lewis
name: Beth
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1954
rating: 0
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Lucy is the first to find the secret of the wardrobe in the professor's mysterious old house. At first her brothers and sister don't believe her when she tells of her visit to the land of Narnia. But soon Edmund, then Peter and Susan step through the wardrobe themselves. In Narnia they find a country buried under the evil enchantment of the White Witch. When they meet the Lion Aslan, they realize they've been called to a great adventure and bravely join the battle to free Narnia from the Witch's sinister spell.]]> 206 C.S. Lewis Beth 5 reading-list-2014 4.24 1950
author: C.S. Lewis
name: Beth
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1950
rating: 5
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]]> 567795 Falling in love is easy. Staying in love—that's the challenge. How can you keep your relationship fresh and growing amid the demands, conflicts, and just plain boredom of everyday life?

In the #1 New York Times international bestseller The 5 Love Languages, you'll discover the secret that has transformed millions of relationships worldwide. Whether your relationship is flourishing or failing, Dr. Gary Chapman's proven approach to showing and receiving love will help you experience deeper and richer levels of intimacy with your partner—starting today.

The 5 Love Languages is as practical as it is insightful. Updated to reflect the complexities of relationships today, this new edition reveals intrinsic truths and applies relevant, actionable wisdom in ways that work.]]> 204 Gary Chapman 1881273156 Beth 3 reading-list-2014 4.21 1990
author: Gary Chapman
name: Beth
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1990
rating: 3
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date added: 2014/09/22
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Narnia... a land where the woods are thick and cold, where Talking Beasts come to life—an entirely new world where adventure begins.

One cold, wet summer in London, Digory and Polly meet and become fast friends. Their lives take a sudden turn when Digory’s Uncle Andrew, who fancies himself a magician, sends them hurtling to... somewhere else. They arrive in Narnia, just as it is born from the song of the great Lion, Aslan. Along the way, they encounter the evil sorceress Jadis, whose dark magic threatens everything. After a whirlwind adventure, they finally find their way back home.]]> 221 C.S. Lewis 0060764902 Beth 5 reading-list-2014 4.06 1955
author: C.S. Lewis
name: Beth
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1955
rating: 5
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In this final, seventh installment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectacular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited.]]> 759 J.K. Rowling Beth 0 reading-list-2014 4.61 2007
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Beth
average rating: 4.61
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> 56480 Passion and Purity covers dating issues such as:
•how to know which person is the right one to marry
•loving passionately while remaining sexually pure
•the man's and woman's role in relationships
•putting God's desires ahead of personal desires
•how far is too far, physically

This best-selling book now has a new cover, an updated interior design, and a foreword from popular author Joshua Harris. Quest for Love will be redesigned in a similar manner to help readers identify the books as a pair. While Passion and Purity shares the love story of Elisabeth and Jim, Quest for Love is a compilation of stories on how other men and women discovered love through God's direction. Together, these two remarkable books accentuate our need to commit daily to Christ all matters of the heart and to wait on his timing.]]> 192 Elisabeth Elliot 0800758188 Beth 5 reading-list-2014 4.13 1984
author: Elisabeth Elliot
name: Beth
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1984
rating: 5
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And yet …

As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate, and lose a few eyebrows in the process. The Weasley twins expand their business. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Classes are never straightforward, though Harry receives some extraordinary help from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince.

So it's the home front that takes center stage in the multilayered sixth installment of the story of Harry Potter. Here at Hogwarts, Harry will search for the full and complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort - and thereby find what may be his only vulnerability.]]> 652 J.K. Rowling 0439784549 Beth 5 reading-list-2014 4.64 2005
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Beth
average rating: 4.64
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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]]> 425068 There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.
And so begins a story that you will never forget...

THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY
...is the story of Robert Kincaid, a world-class photographer, and Francesca Johnson, an Iowa farm wife. Kincaid, fifty-two, is a photographer for National Geographic. A strange, almost mystical traveler of Asian deserts, distant rivers, and ancient cities, he is a man who feels out of harmony with time. Francesca Johnson, forty-five and once a young war bride from Italy, lives in the hills of south Iowa with flickering memories of her girlhood dreams. Each of them is content, yet when Robert Kincaid drives through the heat and dust of an Iowa summer and turns into her farm lane looking for directions, their illusions fall away, and they are joined in an experience that will haunt them forever.

As the photographer Kincaid uses light to reveal not objects, but rather his own kind of truth, what occurs by the old bridges of Madison County becomes a prism transforming the ordinary emotions we think we understand into something rare and brilliant. The result is a passionate, deeply moving experience in lyrical prose, an achievement that puts Robert James Waller in the forefront of this country's new fiction writers.]]> 171 Robert James Waller 044651652X Beth 1 reading-list-2014 3.66 1992
author: Robert James Waller
name: Beth
average rating: 3.66
book published: 1992
rating: 1
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date added: 2014/07/28
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]]> 9605382 Ěý
In her first, highly praised memoir, The Blue Cotton Gown, Patricia Harman recounted the stories that patients brought into her exam room, and her own story of struggling to help women as a nurse-midwife. In Arms Wide Open, a prequel to that acclaimed book, Patsy tells the story of growing up during one of the most turbulent times in America and becoming an idealistic home-birth midwife.
Ěý
Drawing heavily on her journals, Patsy reaches back to tell us how she first learned to deliver babies, and digs even deeper down to tell us of her youthful experiments in living a fully sustainable and natural life. In the 1960s and ’70s, she spent over a decade with her first partner living in rural areas in Minnesota and Ohio before eventually purchasing a farm with Tom Harman in West Virginia.
Ěý
Patsy recounts the hardships and the freedom of living in the wilds of Minnesota in a log cabin she and her lover built with their own hands, the only running water hauled from nearby streams. She describes long treks in the snow with her infant son strapped to her chest, setting up beehives for honey, and giving chase to a thieving bear. Eventually, yearning for more connection, Patsy moves into communal life, forming alliances with the eco-minded and antiwar counterculture that was both loved and reviled in those days.
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As a young mother on the commune, Patsy offers her personal experience and assistance to other women who, like her, wish to have safe, natural births. In time, she becomes a self-taught midwife, delivering babies in cabins and on farms, sometimes in harrowing circumstances. But her passion for the work drives her to want to help more, to do more. And so she begins the professional training that will fully accredit her to assist in childbirth. In a final section, Patsy takes us into the present day, facing the challenges of running a women’s health clinic with her husband, mothering adult sons, and holding true to their principles and passions in the twenty-first century
Ěý
More than a personal memoir, Arms Wide Open paints a portrait of a generation’s desperate struggle to realize their ideals as they battled against the elements and against the conservative society that labeled them “hippies” and belittled their ecological and pacifist beliefs. Her memoir is a beautiful recollection of the convictions of the baby boom generation, a riveting account of surviving in the wild, and a triumphant story of living responsibly in our over-consuming society.
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Ěý]]> 287 Patricia Harman 0807001384 Beth 3 reading-list-2014 3.83 2011
author: Patricia Harman
name: Beth
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2011
rating: 3
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Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.]]> 313 John Green Beth 4 reading-list-2014 4.13 2012
author: John Green
name: Beth
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haiti's women--with a vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's suffering and courage.]]> 234 Edwidge Danticat 037570504X Beth 0 reading-list-2014 3.90 1994
author: Edwidge Danticat
name: Beth
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1994
rating: 0
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Beautifully written, Water for Elephants is illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and place. It tells a story of a love between two people that overcomes incredible odds in a world in which even love is a luxury that few can afford.]]> 368 Sara Gruen 1565125606 Beth 3 reading-list-2014 4.11 2006
author: Sara Gruen
name: Beth
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at: 2014/06/16
date added: 2014/06/16
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