Study Guide for Book Clubs: A Gentleman in Moscow (Study Guides for Book Clubs) <h4>Looking to improve your book club discussions? Wish you had time to prepare for your reading group meetings more thoroughly? Then try this essential book club companion.</h4><p>Study Guides for Book Clubs provide all the information you need for your book club meeting. Each easy-to-follow guide gives an accessible, comprehensive overview of a recommended book club read.</p><p>This useful resource will help you to:</p><ul><li>Recap on finer plot points</li><li>Understand themes, characters & literary context</li><li>Analyse the text in a more effective way</li><li>Stimulate a lively, dynamic discussion</li></ul><p>Inside this informative guide to <b><i>A Gentleman in Moscow</i> by Amor Towles </b>you’ll find:</p><ol><li>A full plot summary</li><li>Author biography</li><li>Discussion of genre & style</li><li>Discussion of themes & symbols</li><li>Detailed character notes</li><li>Useful literary & historical context</li><li>Thought-provoking discussion questions</li><li>A quick quiz</li><li>Further reading recommendations</li></ol><p>Study Guides for Book Clubs are the ideal resource for reading group members or book club discussion leaders. They keep your book group meetings interesting by enhancing understanding and enjoyment of your chosen novel. Armed with these guides, your discussions will be more in-depth, focussed and rewarding.</p><p><b>Order your copy today!</b></p><p>⚠ PLEASE NOTE: This is an unofficial and independent companion guide to <i>A Gentleman in Moscow</i> by Amor Towles. It does not contain the original text of <i>A Gentleman in Moscow</i> and is meant to be read in conjunction with this novel. Please read the original novel first as this guide contains spoilers.</p><p><b>About the Author</b></p><p>Kathryn Cope is a lifelong book lover and book club enthusiast. She has a BA in English Literature and an MA in Contemporary Fiction. Kathryn is the author of Study Guides for Book Clubs and the HarperCollins Official Book Club Guides.</p>
Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens The Winter Soldier <b>The epic story of war and medicine from the award-winning author of <i>The Piano Tuner </i>is "a dream of a novel...part mystery, part war story, part romance" (Anthony Doerr, author of <i>All the Light We Cannot See</i>). </b><br /><br />Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives, at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains, he finds a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single, mysterious nurse named Sister Margarete remains.<br /><br />But Lucius has never lifted a surgeon&apos;s scalpel. And as the war rages across the winter landscape, he finds himself falling in love with the woman from whom he must learn a brutal, makeshift medicine. Then one day, an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed with strange drawings. He seems beyond rescue, until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the lives of doctor, patient, and nurse forever.<br /><br />From the gilded ballrooms of Imperial Vienna to the frozen forests of the Eastern Front; from hardscrabble operating rooms to battlefields thundering with Cossack cavalry, <i>The Winter Soldier</i> is the story of war and medicine, of family, of finding love in the sweeping tides of history, and finally, of the mistakes we make, and the precious opportunities to atone.<br /><br />"<i>The Winter Soldier</i> brims with improbable narrative pleasures...These pages crackle with excitement... A spectacular success." —Anthony Marra, <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Where the Crawdads Sing <b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLING PHENOMENON<br />More than 6 million copies sold<br />A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick<br />A<i> Business Insider</i> Defining Book of the Decade <br /><br />"I can&apos;t even express how much I love this book! I didn&apos;t want this story to end!"--Reese Witherspoon<br /><br />"Painfully beautiful."--<i>The New York Times Book Review<br /></i></b><br />For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life--until the unthinkable happens.<br /><br /><i>Where the Crawdads Sing</i> is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps. The Alice Network: A Novel <p><strong>Featuring an exclusive excerpt from Kate Quinn&apos;s next incredible historical novel, THE HUNTRESS</strong></p><p><strong></strong> </p><p><strong>NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLER</strong></p><p><strong>#1 GLOBE AND MAIL HISTORICAL FICTION BESTSELLER</strong></p><p><strong>One of NPR&apos;s Best Books of the Year!</strong></p><p><strong>One of Bookbub&apos;s Biggest Historical Fiction Books of the Year!</strong></p><p><strong>Reese Witherspoon Book Club Summer Reading Pick!</strong></p><p><strong>The Girly Book Club Book of the Year!</strong></p><p><strong><strong>A Summer Book Pick from Good Housekeeping, Parade, Library Journal, Goodreads, Liz and Lisa, and BookBub</strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong> </p><p><strong>In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption. </strong></p><p><em>1947.</em> In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She&apos;s also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. So when Charlie&apos;s parents banish her to Europe to have her "little problem" taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister.</p><p><em>1915</em>. A year into the Great War, Eve Gardiner burns to join the fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets her chance when she&apos;s recruited to work as a spy. Sent into enemy-occupied France, she&apos;s trained by the mesmerizing Lili, the "Queen of Spies", who manages a vast network of secret agents right under the enemy&apos;s nose. </p><p>Thirty years later, haunted by the betrayal that ultimately tore apart the Alice Network, Eve spends her days drunk and secluded in her crumbling London house. Until a young American barges in uttering a name Eve hasn&apos;t heard in decades, and launches them both on a mission to find the truth...no matter where it leads.</p><p><strong>“Both funny and heartbreaking, this epic journey of two courageous women is an unforgettable tale of little-known wartime glory and sacrifice. Quinn knocks it out of the park with this spectacular book!”—Stephanie Dray, New York Times bestselling author of <em>America&apos;s First Daughter</em></strong></p> The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane: A Novel <b>From #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Lisa See, “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>), a moving novel about tradition, tea farming, and the bonds between mothers and daughters.</b><br /><br />In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people, ensconced in ritual and routine, life goes on as it has for generations—until a stranger appears at the village gate in a jeep, the first automobile any of the villagers has ever seen.<br /> <br /> The stranger’s arrival marks the first entrance of the modern world in the lives of the Akha people. Slowly, Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, begins to reject the customs that shaped her early life. When she has a baby out of wedlock—conceived with a man her parents consider a poor choice—she rejects the tradition that would compel her to give the child over to be killed, and instead leaves her, wrapped in a blanket with a tea cake tucked in its folds, near an orphanage in a nearby city.<br /> <br /> As Li-yan comes into herself, leaving her insular village for an education, a business, and city life, her daughter, Haley, is raised in California by loving adoptive parents. Despite her privileged childhood, Haley wonders about her origins. Across the ocean Li-yan longs for her lost daughter. Over the course of years, each searches for meaning in the study of Pu’er, the tea that has shaped their family’s destiny for centuries.<br /> <br />A powerful story about circumstances, culture, and distance, <i>The </i><i>Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane</i> paints an unforgettable portrait of a little known region and its people and celebrates the bond of family. Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist) <b>A <i>New York Times</i> Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, <i>Pachinko</i> is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>).<br /><br /><i> NEW YORK TIMES</i> NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A <i>USA TODAY</i> TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE <i>PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES </i>BOOK CLUB <i>NOW READ THIS </i>* FINALIST FOR THE 2018<u></u>DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE* WINNER OF THE MEDICI BOOK CLUB PRIZE<br /><br /> Roxane Gay&apos;s Favorite Book of 2017, <i>Washington Post</i><br /><br /><i> NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER * #1 <i>BOSTON GLOBE</i> BESTSELLER * <i>USA TODAY</i> BESTSELLER * <i>WALL STREET JOURNAL </i>BESTSELLER * <i>WASHINGTON POST </i>BESTSELLER</b><br /><br /><i> "There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones."</i><br /><br /> In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son&apos;s powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations.<br /><br /> Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan&apos;s finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee&apos;s complex and passionate characters--strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis--survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.<br /><br /><i>*Includes reading group guide*</i><br /> News of the World: A Novel <p><strong>Soon to be a Major Motion Picture</strong></p><p><strong>National Book Award Finalist—Fiction</strong></p><p>In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of <em>Enemy Women</em> that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.</p><p>In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence.</p><p>In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows.</p><p>Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act “civilized.” Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.</p><p>Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember—strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become—in the eyes of the law—a kidnapper himself.</p> Rules of Civility: A Novel <p><b>From the #1</b> <i><b>New York Times</b></i><b>-bestselling author of</b> <i><b>The Lincoln Highway and</b> <b>A Gentleman in Moscow</b></i><b>, a “sharply stylish” (</b><i><b>Boston Globe</b></i><b>) book about a young woman in post-Depression era New York who suddenly finds herself thrust into high society—now with over one million readers worldwide</b><br /><br />On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society—where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve.<br /><br />With its sparkling depiction of New York’s social strata, its intricate imagery and themes, and its immensely appealing characters, <i>Rules of Civility</i> won the hearts of readers and critics alike.</p> A Russian Gentleman All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel Simon & Schuster Audio The Dining Car (The Horace Button Series) Huckleberry House Washington Black Vintage Cream Before We Were Yours: A Novel Ballantine Books Tan The Modern Library Collection Essential Russian Novels 4-Book Bundle The enduring genius of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky shines through in this special eBook collection that includes four classic Russian novels—each one recognized as a masterpiece of world literature. <br />  <br /> <b>ANNA KARENINA</b><br /> <b> </b><br /> <b>“One of the greatest love stories in world literature.”—Vladimir Nabokov</b><br /> <b> </b><br /> <i>Anna Karenina</i> is Tolstoy’s classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. The rich and complex story charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer.<br />  <br /> <b>CRIME AND PUNISHMENT</b><br /> <b> </b><br /> <b>“<i>Crime and Punishment</i> has upon most readers an impact as immediate and obvious and full as the news of murder next door.”—R. P. Blackmur</b><br /> <b> </b><br /> The story of the murder committed by Raskolnikov and his guilt and atonement, Dostoevsky’s brilliant novel is without doubt the most gripping and illuminating account ever written of a crime of repugnance and despair and the consequences that inevitably arise from it.<br />  <br /> <b>THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV</b><br /> <b> </b><br /> <b>“<i>The Brothers Karamazov</i> stands as the culmination of Dostoevsky’s art.”—<i>The Washington Post Book World</i></b><br /> <b><i> </i></b><br /> Dostoevsky’s crowning achievement is a tale of patricide and family rivalry that embodies the moral and spiritual dissolution of an entire society. To Dostoevsky, it captured the quintessence of Russian character in all its exaltation, compassion, and profligacy.<br />  <br /> <b>WAR AND PEACE</b><br /> <b> </b><br /> <b>“There remains the greatest of all novelists—for what else can we call the author of <i>War and Peace</i>?”—Virginia Woolf</b><br /> <b> </b><br /> Often called the greatest novel ever written, <i>War and Peace</i> is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy’s genius is seen clearly in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicle—all of them fully realized and equally memorable.