{"id":38406,"date":"2024-04-26T11:40:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T09:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/?p=38406"},"modified":"2024-04-19T13:29:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:29:28","slug":"book-club-interesting-women-natural-history-mysteries-and-a-look-into-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/blog\/2024\/04\/26\/book-club-interesting-women-natural-history-mysteries-and-a-look-into-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Club: Interesting women, natural history mysteries &#8230; and a look into the future!\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s 1954 on far-flung Verona Island, a tropical paradise with a fragile economy and a rising crime rate. Prostitution is legal and Lila Gulliver is proud of her business &#8211; a high-end brothel where her clients are guaranteed privacy and discretion. When Carit\u00e0 Bercy, a young, destitute, and beautiful blind woman arrives at her door seeking employment, Lila decides to give her a chance. Carit\u00e0 proves a valuable asset to the house, as well as a psychological puzzle to her employer. One hot night, Ian Drohan, a handsome son of a wealthy judge, visits Lila\u2019s house for the first time, and falls madly in love with Carit\u00e0.\u00a0 Lila doubts his sincerity and fears for Carit\u00e0\u2018s future. But Carit\u00e0 has no such fears. In fact, she is a reckless force of nature, determined to succeed in ways Lila hasn\u2019t even contemplated. Valerie Martin\u2019s <strong>Mrs Gulliver<\/strong> &#8230; a steamy tale of passionate love, found and lost, and found again! <em>Doubleday<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38435\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Mrs-Gulliver-002-249x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Mrs-Gulliver-002-249x400.jpg 249w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Mrs-Gulliver-002-637x1024.jpg 637w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Mrs-Gulliver-002-261x420.jpg 261w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Mrs-Gulliver-002.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38428\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/9780857529817-Water-002-248x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/9780857529817-Water-002-248x400.jpg 248w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/9780857529817-Water-002-635x1024.jpg 635w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/9780857529817-Water-002-261x420.jpg 261w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/9780857529817-Water-002.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the small island off the coast of Ireland is change her name. To the locals, she will be Willow Hale. The second is to shave her head &#8230; no longer shoulder length blonde, it\u2019s now cropped and grey, more in keeping with a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, and not a notorious woman trying to get away from the media after her husband committed a crime &#8211; one they think she is guilty of, too. Escaping her old life might seem like a good idea but the choices she has made throughout her marriage have consequences. Here, on the island, Vanessa must reflect on what she did, and did not, do. Only then can she discover whether she is worthy of finding peace at all. <strong>Water<\/strong> by John Boyne &#8230; a story of a woman coming to terms with the demons of her past and finding a new path forward. <em>Penguin<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38430\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38430\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-38430 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Attachment1-010-e1713526063832-400x332.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Attachment1-010-e1713526063832-400x332.jpg 400w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Attachment1-010-e1713526063832-768x637.jpg 768w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Attachment1-010-e1713526063832-506x420.jpg 506w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Attachment1-010-e1713526063832-696x577.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Attachment1-010-e1713526063832.jpg 809w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keep your place with Book Darts, R425 from pezulainteriors.co.za<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s 2050. A climate-changed world, where humans and digital devices are closely entwined. It\u2019s a world filled with natural disasters, drought, famine and floods. People are displaced as new immigration laws are put into effect, and the gap between the haves and have nots widens. <strong>Future Imperfect<\/strong> by Babette Gallard is the story of a family determined to be together &#8230; despite the horrific obstacles in their way &#8230; exhaustion, terror, the xenophobia of people struggling to protect their increasingly scarce resources. Thought-provoking, this novel raises the question of what may happen to our world in the not-too-distant future. <em>LightEye <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38437\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/s-zoom-002-309x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/s-zoom-002-309x400.jpg 309w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/s-zoom-002-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/s-zoom-002-768x995.jpg 768w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/s-zoom-002-324x420.jpg 324w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/s-zoom-002-696x901.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/s-zoom-002.jpg 834w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38433\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Hippos-A-Mongoose-and-me-cover-002-262x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Hippos-A-Mongoose-and-me-cover-002-262x400.jpg 262w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Hippos-A-Mongoose-and-me-cover-002-670x1024.jpg 670w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Hippos-A-Mongoose-and-me-cover-002-275x420.jpg 275w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Hippos-A-Mongoose-and-me-cover-002-696x1063.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Hippos-A-Mongoose-and-me-cover-002.jpg 707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hippos, a Mongoose and Me<\/strong>, sequel to the popular <em>A Hippo Love Story<\/em>, is a collection of vivid stories reflecting the decades that author Karen Paolillo has lived and worked in the wilds of southeast Zimbabwe. The book kicks off with the rescue of two leopard cubs from a water tank, with an anxious mum waiting in a fig tree nearby, and continues with tales encompass a wide variety of animals and experiences \u2026 Karen\u2019s extraordinary affinity with hippos, life with her beloved mongoose, characterful baboons and rescued birds, close encounters with lions and an injured buffalo, and her heart-stopping flight from an enraged elephant. To add to the drama, Karen and her husband Jean-Roger must face off against the drumbeat of political subterfuge and poaching of wildlife, sometimes at great personal risk. Such a great read \u2026 massively recommended. <em>Penguin Books<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38457 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Book1-320x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Book1-320x400.jpg 320w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Book1-820x1024.jpg 820w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Book1-768x959.jpg 768w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Book1-336x420.jpg 336w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Book1-696x869.jpg 696w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Book1.jpg 865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Extraordinarily similar woodpeckers in South America and Africa. Quintessentially African trees native across South America, from Ecuador to Paraguay. How could this be? This question nagged Nick Norman, an exploration geologist by profession and keen birder by hobby. He\u2019d been surprised to see a woodpecker in Brazil, where he was working at the time, which was strikingly similar to those he knew in the land of his birth, South Africa. In subsequent work engagements in South America, he saw other birds there, as well as trees, which represented families he knew well in Africa. That was the mystery \u2026 how the same families of flora and fauna had distributed themselves in continents astride a major world ocean, the South Atlantic. The obvious answer \u2013 continental drift \u2013 turned out to be a blind alley. Sherlock Holmes said \u2018When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.\u2019 In solving the mystery, the truth of Holmes\u2019s axiom became more and more evident to Nick as he discovered extraordinary travelogues of trees and birds for which, given enough time, a wide ocean was no barrier. This, Nick Norman\u2019s <strong>The Woodpecker Mystery<\/strong> \u2013 The inevitability of the Improbable, is a story of astonishing epiphanies, full of fact that will fascinate lovers of natural history. <em>The Franschhoek Press<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38432 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Ghost-145x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Ghost-145x400.jpg 145w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Ghost-371x1024.jpg 371w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Ghost-152x420.jpg 152w, https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/highway-berea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2024\/04\/Ghost.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 145px) 100vw, 145px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bruce Jack\u2019s Ghost In The Machine<\/strong> <strong>Sauvignon Blanc<\/strong> is all clean and fresh tropical fruit flavours &#8211; papaya and spanspek, with hints of litchi, and is brilliant paired with fried zucchini, asparagus, risotto and a Greek pasta salad. Order online for R208 from orders@thedrift.co.za or find at your local bottlestore.<\/p>\n<p><em> All books available at Exclusive Books and exclusivebooks.co.za<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s 1954 on far-flung Verona Island, a tropical paradise with a fragile economy and a rising crime rate. Prostitution is legal and Lila Gulliver is proud of her business &#8211; a high-end brothel where her clients are guaranteed privacy and discretion. 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