The Sara Gruen Collection

FROM INTERNATIONALLY-BESTSELLING AUTHOR SARA GRUEN, A COLLECTION OF HER MOST BELOVED NOVELS

ONE OF AMERICAS MOST COMPELLING STORYTELLERSKathryn Stockett, author of The Help

1 - WATER FOR ELEPHANTS
The international phenomenon - with over 10 million copies sold, made into a film with Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson.
I loved Water for ElephantsStephen King
You are so immersed in circus life that you are blinded by the thrilling, fatal dazzle of sequins and sawdustThe Telegraph
An imaginative modern fairy story, teeming with eccentric charactersThe Times

The Great Depression 1929 - when Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits in the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth a second-rate travelling circus struggling to survive making one-night stands in town after endless town. He meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the equestrian act, married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her...

2 - AT THE WATERS EDGE
A gripping and poignant love story set in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands at the end of the Second World War.
The only fault I can find with this book is that Ive already finished it Jodi Picoult
Truly enthrallingScotsman
BreathtakingHarpers Bazaar

1945. After disgracing themselves at a high society party, spoilt young Philadelphia socialites Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off from the family without a penny. Ellis decides their salvation will be to hunt down the Loch Ness Monster, a venture his father very publicly failed at. So, oblivious to WW2 raging around them, they make their way to the Scottish Highlands, where Maddie has to face reality and decide just who the real monsters are.

3 - APE HOUSE
The New York Times bestseller.
If you love animals like I do, its a must readEllen DeGeneres
Had me instantly enrapturedDallas Morning News
Wildly entertainingBooklist (starred review)

These bonobos are no ordinary apes. Like others of their species, they are capable of reason and carrying on deep relationships - but, unlike most bonobos, they also know American Sign Language.
Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesnt understand people, but animals she gets, especially the bonobos. Isabel feels more comfortable in their world than shes ever felt among humans . . . until she meets John Thigpen, a very married reporter who braves the ever-present animal rights protesters outside the lab to see whats really going on inside.
When an explosion tears apart the lab, severly injuring Isabel and liberating the apes to an unknown destination, Johns human interest piece turns into the story of a lifetime.