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seaglass

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Tue Jun 3, 2014, 11:44 AM Jun 2014

Outlander - coming to Starz in August - a good summer read [View all]

I am not saying that this is great literature but it WAS a great love story. .

There are I think 8 books in this series and I could only get through 3.5, so no expert here - but if you enjoy a love story with some time travel (1945 back to 1743 Scotland) and history - this is it.

Author Diana Gabaldon
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/outlander-diana-gabaldon/1100171677?ean=9780440212560
Overview
Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another...

In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach--an "outlander"--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord...1743.

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