Readers’ Guides
The questions that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading and discussion of PROOF OF HEAVEN by Mary Curran Hackett Proof of Heaven is as much a story a mother and child and their quest for healing and love, as it is a story that resembles all of our [...]
An introduction to RASPUTIN'S DAUGHTER In St. Petersburg, Russia, in mid-December, the sun does not rise until ten, and it sets barely five hours later. In the waning days of 1916, all of Russia finds itself on the brink of a still more appalling darkness. The casualties of a disastrous [...]
The questions that follow are intended to enhance your group’s reading and discussion of Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight What is Amelia’s relationship like with her mother? Why doesn’t she share more with Kate? Why are adolescents often so reluctant to talk to their parents about the events in their [...]
Reading notes for Deborah Rodriguez’s Return to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul. In the spellbinding sequel to the international bestseller The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul, Deborah Rodriguez reunites readers with many of the compelling characters. The incredible stories of six women, on opposite sides of the earth, yet [...]
About this Guide The following author biography and list of questions about Saints at the River are intended as resources to aid individual readers and book groups who would like to learn more about the author and this novel. We hope that this guide will provide you a starting place [...]
The questions that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading and discussion of STALKING THE DIVINE by Kristin Ohlson Questions 1. Kristin Ohlson discovers the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration’s church on Christmas Day, a day she says is “always ribboned with loneliness and impossible yearning and melancholy.” Why [...]
The questions that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading and discussion of THE ATLAS OF FORGOTTEN PLACES by Jenny Williams Questions Warning: spoiler alert! To preserve enjoyment of the novel, please review this section after you’ve finished the book. 1. How much did you know about northern Uganda before you [...]
The questions that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading and discussion of THE BOOKSHOP AT WATER'S END by Patti Callahan Henry Questions 1. The river is a prominent presence in The Bookshop at Water’s End. What does it mean to you and what does it represent? To the characters? [...]
How I Came To Write The Canterbury Papers The politics and arts of the era of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II Plantagenet have long captured me. These were the times in which the Grail stories were written, stories which many believe fictional. Yet the times, the 12th Century, were [...]
The questions that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading and discussion of THE CURE FOR MODERN LIFE by Lisa Tucker Questions 1. 1. Though Danny is only ten years old, he's clearly wise beyond his years. His mother, Kim, says he's "closer to forty in his harsh judgments [...]
