Summer reading counts for WV Reads 150
Suggested Reading
Start a New Series
Whether it is fiction or nonfiction, start a new series that will take you through the end of the year as you strive to reach your WV Reads 150 goal.
Love Finds You in Charm, Ohio
You can find love in a variety of places throughout the U.S. in this series. How about in Bridal Veil, Oregon? Or Sunset Beach, Hawaii? Or Charm, Ohio?
Murder 101
This is the first in a series of seven novels featuring English professor and amateur detective Alison Bergeron.
search Novelist® PlusThe Shoes of the Fisherman
The Vatican Trilogy follows the Roman Catholic Church and its leaders in the last decades of the 20th century as they deal with religion and power in a rapidly changing political climate. The last two titles are: The Clowns of God (1981) and Lazarus (1990).
search Novelist® PlusShoofly Pie
This Bug Man series features eccentric amateur sleuth Nick Polchak (aka Bug Man) who solves crimes using his savant- like knowledge of forensic entomology.
search Novelist® PlusA Single Thread
In this, the first of the Cobbled Court novels, Evelyn Dixon moves from Fort Worth, Texas, to New Bern, Conn., to open a quilt shop.
search Novelist® PlusSong of the River
Harrison's Storyteller Trilogy begins with a historical novel on the Aleut people, who inhabited prehistoric Alaska. The hero is Chakliux, a trader of hunting dogs who becomes embroiled in tribal intrigues, leading to murder and the massacre of dogs. Lots of detail on the Aleut way of life.
search Novelist® PlusAfrica in my Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early Years
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The woman who devoted her life to studying chimps in Africa looks back on her life, from her early love of animals to her years in the bush observing primates, often sacrificing life's more stable pleasures. Followed by Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters: The Later Years, which covers the years of her greatest triumphs and her deepest tragedies.
search Novelist® PlusAn Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
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The first book in Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy is the Pulitzer Prize winning account of the battle for North Africa in World War II. The other two books in the series are The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily And Italy, 1943-1944 and The Guns at Last Light : The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945.
search Novelist® PlusThe Cat Who Went to Paris
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A publisher, screenwriter and author shares the contagious affection he has for his gray Scottish Fold cat who has become his inseparable companion, whether traversing subways in Manhattan or traveling the Concorde to Paris. Followed by two more titles.
search Novelist® PlusMaus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
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The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel. Maus: A Survivor's Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began is the second installment of Spiegelman's profoundly moving family memento of his parents' survival of the Holocaust.
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963
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America in the King Years is a three-volume history of the civil rights movement. The titles of the three volumes were all drawn from aspects of the Old Testament book of Exodus. They are Parting the Waters; Pillar of Fire; and At Canaan's Edge.
search Novelist® PlusA Year in Provence
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In this witty and warm-hearted account, Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. Mayle also shares his observations on the people and culture of Provence in subsequent volumes, including: Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France; Provence and the South of France: True Stories; and Provence A-Z. Mayle has also written a series of mysteries set in Provence.
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