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GREAT CIRCLE - MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD KARTONIERT (TB)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • The unforgettable
story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life  at any cost: an
epic trip—through Prohibition and World War II  from Montana to London to present-day
Hollywood—and you’ll relish every minute” (People). After being rescued as infants from a
sinking ocean liner in 1914  Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in
Missoula  Montana. There--after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town
in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she
drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger who
provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons  an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of
her life  even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe by flying
over the North and South Poles. A century later  Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film
that centers on Marian's disappearance in Antarctica. Vibrant  canny  disgusted with the
claustrophobia of Hollywood  Hadley is eager to redefine herself after a romantic film
franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of
Marian unfolds  thrillingly  alongside Marian's own story  as the two women's fates--and their
hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times--collide. Epic and
emotional  meticulously researched and gloriously told  Great Circle is a monumental work of
art  and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead.

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