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The 2015 Delicious Reads
Golden Book Award
WINNERS ARE:
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| Unbroken:A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand |
Click below to see what we thought of Unbroken & get ideas for your next book club:
2. .jpg "Shadow on the Crown by Patricia Bracewell") |
| Shadow on the Crown by Patricia Bracewell |
Book Summary: In 1002, fifteen-year-old Emma of Normandy crosses the Narrow Sea to wed the much older King Athelred of England, whom she meets for the first time at the church door. Thrust into an unfamiliar and treacherous court, with a husband who mistrusts her, stepsons who resent her and a bewitching rival who covets her crown, Emma must defend herself against her enemies and secure her status as queen by bearing a son.
Determined to outmaneuver her adversaries, Emma forges alliances with influential men at court and wins the affection of the English people. But her growing love for a man who is not her husband and the imminent threat of a Viking invasion jeopardize both her crown and her life.
Based on real events recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Shadow on the Crown introduces readers to a fascinating, overlooked period of history and an unforgettable heroine whose quest to find her place in the world will resonate with modern readers.
Click below to see what we thought of Shadow on the Crown & get ideas for your next book club:
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| Me Before You by Jojo Moyes |
Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that.
What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time.
**We haven't yet done a book club on this book. Send some of your ideas our way!**
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| The Book Thief by Markus Zusak |
Book Summary: It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery.
So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.
But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jewish fist-fighter in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.
Click below to see what we thought of The Book Thief & get ideas for your next book club:
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| Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo |
Book Summary: The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne. Now the nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army.
Deep in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns, a weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Yet her plans lie elsewhere, with the hunt for the elusive firebird and the hope that an outlaw prince still survives.
Alina will have to forge new alliances and put aside old rivalries as she and Mal race to find the last of Morozova's amplifiers. But as she begins to unravel the Darkling's secrets, she reveals a past that will forever alter her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields. The firebird is the one thing that stands between Ravka and destruction—and claiming it could cost Alina the very future she’s fighting for.
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| Remembrandt by Robin King |
Book Summary: Alexandra Stewart doesn't just walk down memory lane, she
lives on it. Her eidetic memory records and plays back her memories, DVD
style. It's great when she aces a test, but not so great when she topples
over a cute boy and the experience plays back on an endless loop of
humiliation.
When her Russian
professor gives her an impossible puzzle, Alex discovers he has a secret—one
that will catapult her into a life of cryptic codes and covert
missions. Of course, running secret ops would be easier if she weren’t
trying to impress her handsome new running partner. As if love weren’t hard
enough already, now she’s trying to find it while dodging bullets and going
undercover.
Two worlds vie for her
attention and Alex is caught in a battle of the heart and mind. If you think
keeping secrets is easy - forget it.
**We just did this teen spy novel last week for book club . . . stay tuned for fun ideas and our official review!**
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| All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr |
In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure.
**We haven't yet done a book club on this book. Send some of your ideas our way!**
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| The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern |
But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway--a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love - a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.
True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.
Click below to see what we thought of The Night Circus & get ideas for your next book club:
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| Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck |
Book Summary: Passion. Fate. Loyalty. Would you risk it all to change your destiny?
The last thing Kelsey Hayes thought she’d be doing this summer was trying to break a 300-year-old Indian curse. With a mysterious white tiger named Ren. Halfway around the world. But that’s exactly what happened. Face-to-face with dark forces, spellbinding magic, and mystical worlds where nothing is what it seems, Kelsey risks everything to piece together an ancient prophecy that could break the curse forever.
**We haven't yet done a book club on this book. Send some of your ideas our way!**
Thank you for taking part in the Delicious Reads Golden Book Awards. Keep track of your favorite books over the next year because we will be asking for your nominations in a year!
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