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May Readers Club May 5 - May 11, 2025 |
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The lost city of Z : a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon
by David Grann
Interweaves the story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who vanished during a 1925 expedition into the Amazon, with the author's own quest to uncover the mysteries surrounding Fawcett's final journey and the secrets of what lies deep in the Amazon jungle, in the book that inspired the forthcoming film. Reprint. A #1 New York Times best-seller. Movie tie-in.
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The recovery agent
by Janet Evanovich
Recovery agent Gabriela Rose must come up with a large sum of money in order to keep her family's home from being wiped off the map
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Temple of swoon
by Jo Segura
Dr. Miriam Jacobs embarks on an expedition to find the mythical Lost City of the Moon, determined to prove herself, while journalist Rafael Monfils secretly aims to thwart the team's progress to protect his mother's legacy, but their growing connection complicates their mission amid dangers in the Amazon. Original.
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The Wager : a tale of shipwreck, mutiny, and murder
by David Grann
"On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes--they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death--for whomever the court found guilty could hang"
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The great divide : a novel
by Cristina Henrâiquez
"A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and glory for themselves"
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Romancing Miss Stone
by M. C. Vaughan
Securing tour guide Alexandra Stone to lead him into an unmapped jungle in Belize to win back his fiancée, uptight computer nerd Bo Ferguson has the most exciting time of his life, which forces him to confront his past and decide if he wants this adventure to end. Original.
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Clive Cussler fire strike
by Mike Maden
"When Cabrillo is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. A Saudi Prince seeks to spark a new war in the Middle East, and ultimately destroy Israel. Cabrillo's crew of the Oregon have met their most fearsome adversaries yet: a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable appetite for violence. The Oregon team must journey from the Amazon rainforest to an abandoned monastery in Eritrea before a final showdown in the mountains of Yemen to disable a ship-killer missile before the Arabian Sea becomes a mass grave"
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State of wonder
by Ann Patchett
A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh must step out of her comfort zone when she is sent into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years--a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past. Reprint. A best-selling novel. 250,000 first printing.
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Wild dark shore
by Charlotte McConaghy
On a remote island near Antarctica, the Salt family's fragile existence is upended by the arrival of Rowan, a mysterious woman who washes ashore during a storm, forcing them to confront rising dangers and the hope of rebuilding trust amidst isolation and loss.
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Livingston Parish Library
202390 Iowa Street
Livingston, Louisiana 70754
(225) 686-2489www.mylpl.info |
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