Still Life: A GMA Book Club Pick

Still Life: A GMA Book Club PickBy: Sarah Winman A Good Morning America Book Club Pick A Veranda Magazine Book Club Pick A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man. Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a

Monica Gomez-Hira

His outrageous scheme to gain entry is either brilliant or suicidal

finds himself living in a conflated world of past and present where casino owners are Byzantine Emperors

she wonders if she’s going crazy

Look at the sparkly red tractor

George's best friend Annie needs help

with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media—from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs—it has taken on even greater significance

The trail takes Bond to Paris and then Persia - where the beautiful and enigmatic twins Scarlett and Poppy lead him to Gorner's secret desert headquarters

and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more

Mara and Julian begin an investigation of their own that leads them to uncover a trail of murder spanning many decades

The two-year-old son of a Saudi prince has been kidnapped

But can she right some wrongs first