View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

The Constant Gardener: A Novel

by John le Carre

Published: 2004-02-03

Paperback: 496 pages

0 members reading this now
3 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time.The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle -- young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. When Justin set...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

The Constant Princess (Boleyn)

by Philippa Gregory

Published: 2006-08-28

Paperback: 393 pages

1 member reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

"I am Catalina, Princess of Spain, daughter of the two greatest monarchs the world has ever known...and I will be Queen of England." Thus, bestselling author Philippa Gregory introduces one of her most unforgettable heroines: Katherine of Aragon. Known to history as the Queen who was p...

View Reading GUide

* * * * Dramatic,
Insightful,
Informative

3 club reviews

Review This book

The Constant Princess

by Philippa Gregory

Published: 2005-12-06

Hardcover: 393 pages

2 members reading this now
11 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Recommended to book clubs by 3 of 3 members

I am Catalina, Princess of Spain, daughter of the two greatest monarchs the world has ever known...and I will be Queen of England."Thus, bestselling author Philippa Gregory introduces one of her most unforgettable heroines: Katherine of Aragon. Daughter of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews--A History

by James Carroll

Published: 2002

Paperback: 756 pages

1 member reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

In this "rare book that combines searing passion . . . with a subject that has affected all of our lives" ("Chicago Tribune"), novelist and cultural critic James Carroll maps the 2,000-year course of the Church's battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has sparked...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Constantinople : The Last Great Siege 1453

by Roger Crowley

Published: 2006-01-01

Paperback: 320 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Consuelo & Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Mother and Daughter in the Gilded Age

by Amanda MacKenzie Stuart

Published: 2006-09-04

Paperback: 608 pages

1 member reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

A fabulously wealthy New York beauty marries a cold-hearted British aristocrat at the behest of her Machiavellian mother -- then leaves him to become a prominent Suffragette. Consuelo Vanderbilt was one of the greatest heiresses of the late 19th-century, a glittering prize for suitors on both sides...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age (P.S.)

by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart

Published: 2007-01-09

Paperback: 640 pages

0 members reading this now
2 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

When Consuelo Vanderbilt's grandfather died, he was the richest man in America. Her father soon started to spend the family fortune, enthusiastically supported by Consuelo's mother, Alva, who was determined to take the family to the top of New York society—forcing a heartbroken Consuelo ...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

The Consulting Room and Beyond: Psychoanalytic Work and Its Reverberations in the Analyst's Life (Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series)

by Therese Ragen

Published: 2008-09-10

Paperback: 168 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

by Benjamin R. Barber

Published: 2007-03-19

Hardcover: 320 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

A piercing and vital look at how capitalism is consuming U.S. society.An apt sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a wrenching portrait of how adult consumers are infantilized in a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consu...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Consuming Passions: A Food-Obsessed Life

by Michael Lee West

Published: 2000-04

Paperback: 288 pages

1 member reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Laced with delicious secret recipes passed from generation to generation, Consuming Passions is Michael Lee West's delightfully quirky memoir of an adventurous food-obsessed life.By watching a multitude of relatives cook, squabble, and carry on tradition, West went from a noncooking sytude...