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From the author of Where the River Ends, comes this page-turning story of love and survival.On a stormy winter night, two strangers wait for a flight at the Salt Lake City airport. Ashley Knox is an attractive, successful writer, who is flying East for her much anticipated wedding. Dr. Ben Payne has just wrapped up a medical conference and is also eager to get back East for a slate of surgeries he has scheduled for the following day. When the last outgoing flight is cancelled due to a broken de-icer and a forthcoming storm, Ben finds a charter plane that can take him around the storm and drop him in Denver to catch a connection. And when the pilot says the single engine prop plane can fit one more, if barely, Ben offers the seat to Ashley knowing that she needs to get back just as urgently. And then the unthinkable happens. The pilot has a heart attack mid-flight and the plane crashes into the High Uintas Wilderness-- one of the largest stretches of harsh and remote land in the United States.

Ben, who has broken ribs and Ashley, who suffers a terrible leg fracture, along with the pilot's dog, are faced with an incredibly harrowing battle to survive. Fortunately, Ben is a medical professional and avid climber (and in a lucky break, has his gear from a climb earlier in the week). With little hope for rescue, he must nurse Ashley back to health and figure out how they are going to get off the mountain, where the temperature hovers in the teens. Meanwhile, Ashley soon realizes that the very private Ben has some serious emotional wounds to heal as well. He explains to Ashley that he is separated from his beloved wife, but in a long standing tradition, he faithfully records messages for her on his voice recorder reflecting on their love affair. As Ashley eavesdrops on Ben's tender words to his estranged wife she comes to fear that when it comes to her own love story, she's just settling. And what's more: she begins to realize that the man she is really attracted to, the man she may love, is Ben.

As the days on the mountains become weeks, their survival become increasingly perilous. How will they make it out of the wilderness and if they do, how will this experience change them forever? Both a tender and page-turning read, The Mountain Between Us will reaffirm your belief in the power of love to sustain us.

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From Publishers Weekly:

With its spotlight on elephants, Gruen's romantic page-turner hinges on the human-animal bonds that drove her debut and its sequel (Riding Lessons and Flying Changes)—but without the mass appeal that horses hold. The novel, told in flashback by nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski, recounts the wild and wonderful period he spent with the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, a traveling circus he joined during the Great Depression. When 23-year-old Jankowski learns that his parents have been killed in a car crash, leaving him penniless, he drops out of Cornell veterinary school and parlays his expertise with animals into a job with the circus, where he cares for a menagerie of exotic creatures[...] He also falls in love with Marlena, one of the show's star performers—a romance complicated by Marlena's husband, the unbalanced, sadistic circus boss who beats both his wife and the animals Jankowski cares for. Despite her often clichéd prose and the predictability of the story's ending, Gruen skillfully humanizes the midgets, drunks, rubes and freaks who populate her book. (May 26) ***WWW.AMAZON.COM***

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As We Continue On Our Nicholas Sparks Journey....

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From Publishers Weekly:

U.S. Marine Logan Thibault carries a picture of a woman he'snever met because it brings him good luck. But when he sets out to find the woman, he is met with unexpected circumstances surrounding his new love and his shrouded past. Though not Sparkss most original tale, the story flows well and narrator John Bedford Lloyd delivers a solid performance. Lloyds deep bass tone is perfectly suited for Thibault, a manly man if ever there was one. Lloyds supporting characters are rich and interesting in their own right, some speaking in comical Southern drawls, others with a raw reality. The final result is quite touching without much over-the-top sentimentality on Lloyds part. A Grand Central hardcover. (Sept.)

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"Nights in Rodanthe"

Nicholas Sparks does it again with yet another beautifully written romantic story of family, love and support. We have read quite a few of his books, and even though they all seem to be a story of romance, each one has been very different. It just seems like you are there on the outside looking in, watching the story unfold and gives you that warm fuzzy feeling we all love to feel.

I thought about posting my feelings of the story, but realistically I don't want to give anything away...this is a quick read with less than 225 pages, but definitely worth the time and would recommend this book to everyone who loves to read!

Not sure where our next reading adventure will fall, but I can say that I will continue reading all of Sparks books until my list is complete!

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From Publishers Weekly:

Sparks (A Bend in the Road, etc.) logs more miles on the winding high road of romance with the story of two middle-aged people who meet by chance in the small North Carolina coastal town of Rodanthe. The impassioned but doomed romance seems to owe much to Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County. Once again, a housewife who has focused on everyone but herself indulges in a brief, intense, secret affair with a stranger who changes her life forever. As the story begins, Adrienne Willis is 60, the divorced mother of three grown children. To help her troubled daughter cope with the untimely recent death of her husband, Adrienne tells her the tale of her love affair, which took place 15 years before. At the time, Adrienne was an uptight matron whose ex-husband had just left her for a younger woman. This rejection colors her entire life, and Sparks realistically portrays a vulnerable and isolated woman who throws herself into raising her children to escape her despair. Paul Flanner, her paramour, is a surgeon and an obsessive workaholic with no genuine connection to his wife or son, whose world completely falls apart when one of his patients inexplicably dies. Sparks builds a taut, plausible relationship between his protagonists, but even fans may be irked by the obviousness of their story and the inevitability of their fate. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"The Wedding"

This was a great story, a story I would definitely recommend!!!! I don't want to give anything away for those who read the story but I was blown away by the ending!!!

I hope that if you are looking for a good book to read this is definitely one I would recommend!!!

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"The Wedding"

I am so glad to be back, so glad to be reading with Adriane again...so glad to be blogging again about our books....can you feel my excitement all the way in Korea, Adriane??!?!?

So back to the important stuff, the BOOK! This has been an awesome book so far and has inspired me to think outside the box and really think about the relationships in my life and how much I take for granted. The story starts out by Wilson forgetting his 29 year Anniversary with Jane, and even with subtle reminders she gives all evening. Then it happens, she tells him he forgot and he is crushed wondering what went wrong......what is inspiring instead of just trying to fluff it off like most men I know would, he decides to take a look of what happened to the last 29 years and how they got to this point. He makes changes to himself and wants to be a better man and husband, not only for her but for himself.

He has an awesome father-in-law, Noah who has given him the inspiration to want to change and treat people the way they should be treated. So he sets out to get his wife to fall in love with him all over again. We are not sure exactly what he is up too, but his daughter announces she is getting married the exact day that would of been Wilson and Jane's 30th Anniversary. So the plans begin for the wedding that is only a few weeks away, and Wilson's plans...whatever they may be continue on.....

The story continues and so do the plans for "The Wedding"...we have continued on and I can't wait to see the rest of what is going to be the best 30th Anniversary ever, that I am sure, along with the best wedding a father could give his daughter.

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