The interplay of science, spirituality, history and romance will satisfy. After a trip to England, the sisters find themselves on the Titanic-the author uses a touch of the fantastic to provide a (mostly) happy conclusion.
The story's pace is slow, but it picks up as the years pass, and Jane falls in love with Tesla's assistant, Thad. Title, Distant Waves: A Novel of the Titanic Author, Suzanne Weyn Edition, reprint Publisher, Scholastic Inc., 2011 ISBN, 0545085845, 9780545085847. Editions for Distant Waves: 0545085721 (Hardcover published in 2009), 0545200458 (Paperback published in 2009), 0545085845 (Paperback published in 2011).
2008 Other Books in This Series Wildwood Stables 2: Playing for Keeps. 2010 The Bar Code Rebellion (The Bar Code Trilogy, Book 2) 2012 Distant Waves: A Novel of the Titanic. Science has an equally important role, as Jane becomes obsessed with Tesla, following his career in the paper and then seeking him out. More Books by Suzanne Weyn The Bar Code Tattoo (The Bar Code Trilogy, Book 1) 2004. Four sisters and their mother make their way from a spiritualist town. The beginning of the novel centers on the girls' mother's spiritual work, with Jane unsure of her mother's clairvoyance. Science, spiritualism, history and romance intertwine in Suzanne Weyns newest novel. That same life-changing day, on their way to a spiritualist community outside Buffalo, N.Y., the newly-fatherless family is caught in an artificial earthquake caused by real-life scientist Nikola Tesla. Weyn's historical novel climaxes with the sinking of the Titanic, but it begins in 1898 when narrator Jane, the second of five sisters, is four years old and observing her mother, a medium, contact the spirit world for the first time.
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