{"id":47432,"date":"2023-06-01T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=47432"},"modified":"2023-05-10T14:55:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T19:55:59","slug":"online-reading-challenge-june-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/online-reading-challenge-june-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Reading Challenge – June"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Welcome Readers!<\/p>\n

This month the Online Reading Challenge travels to Australia, the smallest continent, yet one of the largest countries on Earth! Australia has jungle-coated islands, outback plains, vast wilderness frontiers, the world’s oldest living ecosystems, remote islands, and high peaks. Our Main title for June is The Light Between Oceans<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by M.L. Stedman. We are in Australia for this book, though Janus Rock is a fictional island(fun fact: there is a Janus Island located near Antarctica). Here\u2019s a quick summary of The Light Between Oceans<\/em> from the publisher.<\/p>\n

After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day\u2019s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby\u2019s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tom, who keeps meticulous records and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel insists the baby is a \u201cgift from God,\u201d and against Tom\u2019s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.<\/em><\/p>\n

This title is also available in large print, as a CD audiobook, a Libby eBook, and single book club books. You can also watch the movie version, which was released in 2016 starring Michael Fassbender as Tom and Alicia Vikander as Isabel.<\/p>\n

As always, check each of our locations for displays with lots more titles to choose from!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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