The Broadneck Library will be closed Monday, April 1 - Tuesday, April 16 for branch improvements. Please plan to pickup your holds at another location

The Riviera Beach Library is currently closed. For more information on the new location, please visit the Riviera Beach Library

Circling the sun: a novel

Book Cover
Average Rating
5 star
 
(5)
4 star
 
(3)
3 star
 
(2)
2 star
 
(0)
1 star
 
(1)
Publisher:
Varies, see individual formats and editions
Pub. Date:
Varies, see individual formats and editions
Language:
English
Description
"Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman--Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of the classic memoir Out of Africa. Brought to Kenya from England as a child and then abandoned by her mother, Beryl is raised by both her father and the native Kipsigis tribe who share his estate. Her unconventional upbringing transforms Beryl into a bold young woman with a fierce love of all things wild and an inherent understanding of nature's delicate balance. But even the wild child must grow up, and when everything Beryl knows and trusts dissolves, she is catapulted into a string of disastrous relationships. Beryl forges her own path as a horse trainer, and her uncommon style attracts the eye of the Happy Valley set, a decadent, bohemian community of European expats who also live and love by their own set of rules. But it's the ruggedly charismatic Denys Finch Hatton who ultimately helps Beryl navigate the uncharted territory of her own heart. The intensity of their love reveals Beryl's truest self and her fate: to fly. Set against the majestic landscape of early-twentieth-century Africa, McLain's powerful tale reveals the extraordinary adventures of a woman before her time, the exhilaration of freedom and its cost, and the tenacity of the human spirit. Praise for Paula McLain and The Paris Wife"McLain has brought Hadley [Hemingway] to life in a novel that begins in a rush of early love. A moving portrait of a woman slighted by history, a woman whose. story needed to be told."--The Boston Globe"The Paris Wife creates the kind of out-of-body reading experience that dedicated book lovers yearn for, nearly as good as reading Hemingway for the first time--and it doesn't get much better than that."--Minneapolis Star Tribune"Exquisitely evocative. This absorbing, illuminating book gives us an intimate view of a sympathetic and perceptive woman, the striving writer she married, the glittering and wounding Paris circle they were part of. McLain reinvents the story of Hadley and Ernest's romance with the lucid grace of a practiced poet."--The Seattle Times"A novel that's impossible to resist. It's all here, and it all feels real."--People"Powerful and devastating. McLain pulls off a delicate balancing act, making the macho Hemingway of myth a complex and sympathetic figure."--USA Today"A sweet love story with surprising emotional impact."--Chicago Sun-Times"--
Also in This Series
More Like This
More Details
ISBN:
9780345534200
9780345534194
9781467603591
9780307989932
9780345534187
9780307989901
Staff View

Grouping Information

Grouped Work ID81cd7f9f-faf7-64f8-76d8-cf888dc942a1
Grouping Titlecircling the sun
Grouping Authorpaula mclain
Grouping Categorybook
Grouping LanguageEnglish (eng)
Last Grouping Update2024-03-28 04:19:15AM
Last Indexed2024-03-28 04:32:14AM

Solr Fields

accelerated_reader_point_value
0
accelerated_reader_reading_level
0
auth_author2
McEwan, Katharine
author
McLain, Paula
author2-role
Findaway World, LLC
McEwan, Katharinenarrator
Playaway Digital Audio
Random House Audio Publishing
Recorded Books, LLC
author_display
McLain, Paula
available_at_aacpl
Busch Annapolis Library
Eastport-Annapolis Neck Library
Glen Burnie Library
Maryland City at Russett Library
Online OverDrive Collection
collection_aacpl
ADULT
detailed_location_aacpl
Broadneck Library - Adult Fiction
Busch Annapolis Library - Audiobooks
Eastport-Annapolis Neck Library - Audiobooks
Edgewater Library - Adult Fiction
Glen Burnie Library - Audiobooks
Maryland City at Russett Library - Audiobooks
Online OverDrive Collection
display_description
"Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman--Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of the classic memoir Out of Africa. Brought to Kenya from England as a child and then abandoned by her mother, Beryl is raised by both her father and the native Kipsigis tribe who share his estate. Her unconventional upbringing transforms Beryl into a bold young woman with a fierce love of all things wild and an inherent understanding of nature's delicate balance. But even the wild child must grow up, and when everything Beryl knows and trusts dissolves, she is catapulted into a string of disastrous relationships. Beryl forges her own path as a horse trainer, and her uncommon style attracts the eye of the Happy Valley set, a decadent, bohemian community of European expats who also live and love by their own set of rules. But it's the ruggedly charismatic Denys Finch Hatton who ultimately helps Beryl navigate the uncharted territory of her own heart. The intensity of their love reveals Beryl's truest self and her fate: to fly. Set against the majestic landscape of early-twentieth-century Africa, McLain's powerful tale reveals the extraordinary adventures of a woman before her time, the exhilaration of freedom and its cost, and the tenacity of the human spirit. Praise for Paula McLain and The Paris Wife"McLain has brought Hadley [Hemingway] to life in a novel that begins in a rush of early love. A moving portrait of a woman slighted by history, a woman whose. story needed to be told."--The Boston Globe"The Paris Wife creates the kind of out-of-body reading experience that dedicated book lovers yearn for, nearly as good as reading Hemingway for the first time--and it doesn't get much better than that."--Minneapolis Star Tribune"Exquisitely evocative. This absorbing, illuminating book gives us an intimate view of a sympathetic and perceptive woman, the striving writer she married, the glittering and wounding Paris circle they were part of. McLain reinvents the story of Hadley and Ernest's romance with the lucid grace of a practiced poet."--The Seattle Times"A novel that's impossible to resist. It's all here, and it all feels real."--People"Powerful and devastating. McLain pulls off a delicate balancing act, making the macho Hemingway of myth a complex and sympathetic figure."--USA Today"A sweet love story with surprising emotional impact."--Chicago Sun-Times"--
format_aacpl
Audio CD
Book
Playaway
eAudiobook
eBook
format_category_aacpl
Audio Books
Books
eBook
id
81cd7f9f-faf7-64f8-76d8-cf888dc942a1
isbn
9780307989901
9780307989932
9780345534187
9780345534194
9780345534200
9781467603591
itype_aacpl
Adult Audiobook on CD
Adult General Fiction
Adult Playaway
last_indexed
2024-03-28T08:32:14.488Z
lexile_score
-1
literary_form
Fiction
literary_form_full
Fiction
local_callnumber_aacpl
CD FICTION (M)
FICTION (M)
Online OverDrive
PLAYAWAY FICTION (M)
owning_library_aacpl
Anne Arundel County Public Library
Anne Arundel County Public Library Online
owning_location_aacpl
Broadneck Library
Busch Annapolis Library
Eastport-Annapolis Neck Library
Edgewater Library
Glen Burnie Library
Maryland City at Russett Library
Online OverDrive Collection
primary_isbn
9780345534200
publishDate
2015
publisher
Ballantine Books
Books on Tape
Distributed by Recorded Books
Random House Audio
Random House Publishing Group
recordtype
grouped_work
subject_facet
Audiobooks
Audiobooks (CD)
Biographical fiction
Biographical fiction. -- Audiobooks (CD)
Historical fiction
Historical fiction. -- Audiobooks (CD)
Kenya -- Fiction
Kenya -- Fiction -- Audiobooks (CD)
Markham, Beryl -- Fiction
Markham, Beryl -- Fiction -- Audiobooks (CD)
Romance fiction
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction -- Audiobooks (CD)
Women air pilots -- Africa -- Fiction
Women air pilots -- Africa -- Fiction -- Audiobooks (CD)
title_display
Circling the sun : a novel
title_full
Circling the Sun A Novel
Circling the sun : a novel / Paula McLain
Circling the sun [playaway] : a novel / Paula McLain
Circling the sun [sound recording] : a novel / Paula McLain
title_short
Circling the sun
title_sub
a novel
topic_facet
Audiobooks (CD)
Fiction
Historical Fiction
Literature
Markham, Beryl
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Women air pilots

Solr Details Tables

item_details

Bib IdItem IdShelf LocCall NumFormatFormat CategoryNum CopiesIs Order ItemIs eContenteContent SourceeContent URLDetailed StatusLast CheckinLocation
overdrive:e2409ee0-3d92-4355-be49-6f07a8eee5ba1Online OverDrive CollectionOnline OverDriveeBookeBook4falsetrueOverDriveAvailable Online
overdrive:e2409ee0-3d92-4355-be49-6f07a8eee5ba-1Online OverDrive CollectionOnline OverDriveeBookeBook22falsetrueOverDriveAvailable Online
ils:a121508031997302895842Broadneck Library - Adult FictionFICTION (M)1falsefalseChecked OutMar 20, 2024BDN
ils:a121508031997302895826Edgewater Library - Adult FictionFICTION (M)1falsefalseChecked OutMar 26, 2024EDG
ils:a123575931997098089121Eastport-Annapolis Neck Library - AudiobooksCD FICTION (M)1falsefalseOn ShelfMar 28, 2023EAN
overdrive:62a39998-4782-4129-9ac7-90f0ab6ce2d0-1Online OverDrive CollectionOnline OverDriveeAudiobookAudio Books6falsetrueOverDriveAvailable Online
overdrive:62a39998-4782-4129-9ac7-90f0ab6ce2d01Online OverDrive CollectionOnline OverDriveeAudiobookAudio Books2falsetrueOverDriveAvailable Online
ils:a122691131997077542652Maryland City at Russett Library - AudiobooksPLAYAWAY FICTION (M)1falsefalseOn ShelfJul 25, 2022MDC
ils:a122691131997077542660Glen Burnie Library - AudiobooksPLAYAWAY FICTION (M)1falsefalseOn ShelfJul 17, 2023NCO
ils:a122691131997089475834Busch Annapolis Library - AudiobooksPLAYAWAY FICTION (M)1falsefalseOn ShelfFeb 22, 2024ANN

record_details

Bib IdFormatFormat CategoryEditionLanguagePublisherPublication DatePhysical DescriptionAbridged
overdrive:e2409ee0-3d92-4355-be49-6f07a8eee5baeBookeBookEnglishRandom House Publishing Group2015
ils:a1215080BookBooksFirst editionEnglishBallantine Books[2015]366 pages ; 25 cm
ils:a1235759Audio CDAudio BooksUnabridgedEnglishDistributed by Recorded Booksp201510 audio discs (12 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
overdrive:62a39998-4782-4129-9ac7-90f0ab6ce2d0eAudiobookAudio BooksEnglishBooks on Tape2015
ils:a1226911PlayawayAudio BooksUnabridgedEnglish20151 audio media player (12 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.

scoping_details_aacpl

Bib IdItem IdGrouped StatusStatusLocally OwnedAvailableHoldableBookableIn Library Use OnlyLibrary OwnedHoldable PTypesBookable PTypesLocal Url
overdrive:e2409ee0-3d92-4355-be49-6f07a8eee5ba1Available OnlineAvailable Onlinefalsetruetruefalsefalsetrue
overdrive:e2409ee0-3d92-4355-be49-6f07a8eee5ba-1Available OnlineAvailable Onlinefalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse
ils:a121508031997302895842Checked OutChecked Outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetrue
ils:a121508031997302895826Checked OutChecked Outfalsefalsetruefalsefalsetrue
ils:a123575931997098089121On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsetrue
overdrive:62a39998-4782-4129-9ac7-90f0ab6ce2d0-1Available OnlineAvailable Onlinefalsetruetruefalsefalsefalse
overdrive:62a39998-4782-4129-9ac7-90f0ab6ce2d01Available OnlineAvailable Onlinefalsetruetruefalsefalsetrue
ils:a122691131997077542652On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsetrue
ils:a122691131997077542660On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsetrue
ils:a122691131997089475834On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsetrue