BOOKS WE LOVE
This is a selection of books one, many or all of us at VIVA have read and absolutely love. We change this list often as we will read a new book and simply have to have it on our list.
Light at Lavelle by Paullina Simons
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
TORN BETWEEN WHAT THEY CANNOT HAVE AND WHAT THEY CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT. It is 1929. The world is about to change. Finn Evans is a successful Boston banker harboring a secret that threatens to unravel his carefully constructed idyllic life. Isabelle Lazar, a young Ukrainian farmer, endures unspeakable ha ...Show more
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
With its breakneck pacing, dazzling plot twists and unforgettable characters, The Last Thing He Told Me is bestselling author Laura Dave's finest novel yet, certain to shock you with its final, heartbreaking turn. *SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING JENNIFER GARNER, FROM THE MAKERS OF BIG LITTLE LIES ...Show more
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
What is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who work in the bindery at Oxford University Press in Jericho. Peggy is intelligent, ambit ...Show more
The Binding by Bridget Collins
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
Imagine you could erase grief. Imagine you could remove pain. Imagine you could hide the darkest, most horrifying secret. Forever. Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a strange letter arrives summoning him away from his family. He is to begin an apprenticeship as a Bookbinder -- a vocation ...Show more
The Stranger in the Woods: 'A meditation on solitude, wildness and survival' Wall Street Journal by Michael Finkel
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*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Could you leave behind all that you know and live in solitude for three decades? This is the extraordinary story of the last true hermit - Christopher Knight. 'This was a breath-taking book to read and many weeks later I am still thinking about the implications for our soc ...Show more
Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
'Why is there so much inequality?' Xenia asks her father, the world famous economist Yanis Varoufakis. Drawing on memories of childhood and a variety of well-known tales - from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein and The Matrix - Varoufakis explains everything you need to know in order to understand why ...Show more
When Things Are Alive They Hum by Hannah Bent
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
Marlowe and Harper share a bond deeper than most sisters, shaped by the loss of their mother in childhood. For Harper, living with what she calls the Up syndrome and gifted with an endless capacity for wonder, Marlowe and she are connected by an invisible thread, like the hum that connects all things. F ...Show more
Go as a River by Shelley Read
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
For fans of WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, GREAT CIRCLE and THE PAPER PALACE- lush, immersive, soaring tale of a young woman's journey to becoming, of love and loss, home and resilience, and finding those where least expected, and a breathtaking exploration of our connection to nature. On a cool autumn mornin ...Show more
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Reading Level: near fine
Are you lost or are you exploring? When Zachary Rawlins stumbles across a strange book hidden in his university library it leads him on a quest unlike any other. Its pages entrance him with their tales of lovelorn prisoners, lost cities and nameless acolytes, but they also contain something impossible: ...Show more
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
From the bestselling author of Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who investigates a shocking murder that unhinges her small community.Maine, 1789: When a man is found entombed in the frozen Kennebec Rive ...Show more
The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
A new Japanese bestseller- seven fabulous warm, wise and sarcastic cats support the complicated lives of their humans BY THE AUTHOR OF THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES A PERFECT READ FOR CAT-LOVERS Against changing seasons in Japan, seven cats weave their way through their o ...Show more
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
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From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged si ...Show more