Carol's Recommendations...
The
Notebook
Nicholas
Sparks
Back in
North Carolina after the war, Noah Calhoun cannot stop thinking about the girl
he had lost a decade ago, and even though she is on the verge of marriage,
she cannot stop thinking about him.
Fortune's
Rocks
Anita Shreve
In a summer
community on the coast of New Hampshire at the turn of the last century, a
girl is drawn into a passionate affair with a man nearly three times her age.
Fortune's Rocks is the story of Olympia Biddeford, priveledged, well-educated,
and mature beyond her years, and her affair with John Haskell, who not only
is a physician, essayist, and champion of mill workers, but also a married
man with children. Drawn inexorably together on the night of the summer solstice,
the pair set in motion a series of events with far-reaching consequences for
all involved.
Thorn
Birds
Colleen McCullough
In the rugged
Australian Outback, three extraordinary generations of Cleary's live through
joy and sadness, bitter defeat and magnificent triumph--driven by their dreams,
sustained by remarkable strength of character...and torn by dark passions,
violence and a scandalous family legacy of forbidden love.
Gone
With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
Spoiled
Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara never stops loving the married Ashley Wilkes
even as she faces the hardships of life during the Civil War and the changes
brought about by Reconstruction.
---->And
if you liked the book, don't forget about the movie!
The
Red Tent
Anita Diamant
Her name
is Dinah. In the Bible her life is only hinted at during a brief and violent
detour within the more familiar chapters about her father, Jacob, and his
dozens of sons in the Book of Genesis. Told through Dinah's eloquent voice,
this sweeping novel reveals the traditions and turmoil of ancient womanhood.
Dinah's tale begins with the story of her mothers: Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and
Bilhaha, the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that
are to sustain her through a hard-working youth, a calling to midwifery, and
a new home in a foreign land.
