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.
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Reading Level: very good
Demon Copperhead: a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Demon befriends us on this, his journey through the modern perils of foster care, child labor, d ...Show more
How the World Works by Noam Chomsky
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
The essential introduction to Chomsky's political ideasWith exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. Divided into four sections and originally published in the US as individual short books which have collectively sold ...Show more
All The Broken Places by John Boyne
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Series: The Sequel to The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas | Reading Level: very good
All the Broken Places is John Boyne's masterful sequel to his classic bestseller, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, taking a character from that novel on a journey to a place she never goes - the past. Through her story, Boyne explores the aftermath of the war and the effects of a lifetime of guilt. 1946. ...Show more
Where the Crawdads Sing (FTI) by Delia Owens
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
OVER 12 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Painfully beautiful' New York Times 'Unforgettable . . . as engrossing as it is moving' Daily Mail 'A rare achievement' The Times 'I can't even express how much I love this book!' Reese WitherspoonFor ...Show more
Ordinary Monsters (#1 The Talents Series) by J M Miro
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Series: The Talents Series
1882. North of Edinburgh, on the edge of an isolated loch, lies an institution of crumbling stone, where a strange doctor collects orphans with unusual abilities. In London, two children with such powers are hunted by a figure of darkness - a man made of smoke. Charlie Ovid discovers a gift for healing ...Show more
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Reading Level: very good
'He tilted his desk lamp so that the light fell on the image. The head of a bright bay colt gazed out of the canvas, the expression in the eyes unusual and haunting.' A discarded painting in a roadside clean-up, forgotten bones in a research archive, and Lexington, the greatest racehorse in US history. ...Show more
Cry of the Kalahari by Delia Owens, Mark Owens
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
'A remarkable story beautifully told... Among such classics as Goodall's In the Shadow of Man and Fossey's Gorillas in the Mist' Chicago Tribune Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa, bought a thirdhan ...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. This propulsive thriller with a heart is perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste N ...Show more
Honeybee by Craig Silvey
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Reading Level: very good
The highly anticipated new novel by the bestselling author of Jasper Jones. 'Find out who you are, and live that life.' Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, ...Show more
Talking to my Daughter About the Economy - A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE | Reading Level: very good
Yanis Varoufakis, the bestselling author of Adults in the Room, uses personal stories and famous myths to explain what economics is and why it has the power to change our world. Why is there so much inequality?In this intimate and accessible book, world famous economist Yanis Varoufakis sets out to answ ...Show more
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
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Category: BOOKS WE LOVE
Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one - Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, No ...Show more