Novel Ideas Book Group

on Friday, March 15th at 9:00 PM EST. This book is available on Bookshare and BARD, and the DB number is 67037, with a reading time of 5 hours and 47 minutes.
Here is a brief synopsis of the novel from Bookshare.

Winner of the 2007 book browse Diamond Award for most popular book, Water For Elephants is an atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons.

Presented by our guest host Joshua Hendricksen
(This book is available on Bookshare).

We thank Alan Lemly for recommending this fine book and for writing the newswire.

The Novel Ideas group will be discussing Defending Jacob by William Landay. DB74312 This book is also available on bookshare. This book is categorized as a mystery on BARD, but it is more than a tale of suspense.

The Novel Ideas group will be discussing Light A Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy. The BARD book number is 43536. This book is also available on bookshare.

We will be discussing Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen DB65395. This short, whimsical novel combines various genres, and is the perfect end-of-the-summer read.
Here is the synopsis from Bookshare.

This novel by Leila Meacham has been likened to such novels as Gone with the Wind and The Thorn Birds. It is a novel that spans the 20th century and three generations of the Toliver and Warwick families.

We will be discussing a novel by Dorothea Benton Frank entitled The Land of Mango Sunsets.
Here is the NLS Synopsis:

Our group chose the book: LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH,” by Emily Giffin, db 66946.
Let me present the NLS Synopsis here.