The Bookman's Tale: A Novel of Obsession by Charlie Lovett
Retired antiquarian bookseller Peter
Byerly has withdrawn from his life and has fled to England after the death of
his beloved wife. One day he wanders
into a bookstore and discovers, in the pages of an eighteenth-century study of
Shakespeare forgeries, a Victorian watercolor portrait of a woman who strongly
resembles his dead wife. Searching for
the origins of this painting he stumbles upon a rare manuscript and soon finds
himself in danger. On the run, he tries
to authenticate the work that may answer the age old question –did Shakespeare
write the plays credited to him?
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer
After her twin brother dies from
AIDS and her lover leaves her for another woman, Greta Wells is depressed. Undergoing electroshock therapy she finds the
procedure has a shocking side effect. After each treatment she awakes in a
different time period- 1918, 1941 and the present - and in each time period she
lives a different life with different struggles, losses and joys. As she becomes more involved in these alternate
lives, she tries to make changes and starts to wonder - which life should she
choose for her own?
The Curiosity by Stephen P. Kiernan
In the Artic, Kate Philo makes an
extraordinary find -a man who has been frozen since the early 1900s. Erastus
Carthage who has had success in reanimating small sea creatures brings the man
back to life despite being unable to keep his previous subjects alive for
longer than twelve days. This amazing event causes a media frenzy and has wide
ranging implications in the political, religious and scientific
communities. Meanwhile the frozen man
wakes and learns about his new world, protected by Dr. Philo who sees him as a
human being not a scientific specimen. As
the clock ticks downs, as protests increase, as relationships develop and as accusations
of fraud begin to fly - what will happen to this man from the past?
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