#BookFace– the woman, the myth, the legend!
“For a thousand years her existence has been denied. She is the legend that will not die–Pope Joan, the ninth-century woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to become the only female ever to sit on the throne of St. Peter…in this riveting novel, Donna Woolfolk Cross paints a sweeping portrait of an unforgettable heroine who struggles against restrictions her soul cannot accept.”
“
Pope Joan” by Donna Woolfolk Cross (Ballentine Books, 2009) is this week’s
#BookFaceFriday selection. Based on the legend of the only women to hold the papal throne, it is the “
dramatic story of a woman whose strength of vision led her to defy the social restrictions of her day”. This novel a part of our
NLC Book Club Kit collection, and it’s the perfect choice for book clubs that like historical fiction.
“Pope Joan has all the elements one wants in a historical drama–love, sex, violence, duplicity, and long-buried secrets. Cross has written an engaging book.”–Los Angeles Times Book Review
This week’s
#BookFaceFriday model is our interim director of the Western Library System, Kathy Terrell!
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#BookFace & reading? We suggest checking out all the titles available for book clubs at
http://nlc.nebraska.gov/ref/bookclub. Check out our past
#BookFaceFriday photos on the
Nebraska Library Commission’s Facebook page!
“For a thousand years her existence has been denied. She is the legend that will not die–Pope Joan, the ninth-century woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to become the only female ever to sit on the throne of St. Peter…in this riveting novel, Donna Woolfolk Cross paints a sweeping portrait of an unforgettable heroine who struggles against restrictions her soul cannot accept.”
“Pope Joan” by Donna Woolfolk Cross (Ballentine Books, 2009) is this week’s #BookFaceFriday selection. Based on the legend of the only women to hold the papal throne, it is the “dramatic story of a woman whose strength of vision led her to defy the social restrictions of her day”. This novel a part of our NLC Book Club Kit collection, and it’s the perfect choice for book clubs that like historical fiction.
