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by
Jean Kwok
(54,143)
Summary: Caught between the pressure to succeed in America, her duty to their family, and her own personal desires, Kimberly Chang, an immigrant girl from Hong Kong, learns to constantly translate not just...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F KWOK
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 4 of 16
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by
Agatha Christie
Series:
Hercule Poirot Series
(238,342)
Summary: Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F CHRISTIE
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Christina Baker Kline
(426,563)
Summary: "Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F KLINE
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 20 of 21
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by
Daniel James Brown
(275,308)
Summary: The University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the nine boys, in the...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB 797.123 BRO
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Gabrielle Zevin
(257,859)
Summary: When his most prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, is stolen, bookstore owner A. J. Fikry begins isolating himself from his friends, family and associates before receiving a mysterious...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F ZEVIN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 3 of 18
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by
Sue Monk Kidd
(303,605)
Summary: "The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F KIDD
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Lily King
(87,441)
Summary: English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in 1930s New Guinea. Haunted by the memory of his brothers' deaths and increasingly...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F KING
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 20 of 20
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by
Fredrik Backman
(218,067)
Summary: When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa's greatest adventure begins. Her grandmother's instructions lead her to an apartment...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F BACKMAN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 7 of 20
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![The invention of wings [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/156306@2x.jpg)
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by
Sue Monk Kidd
(303,582)
Summary: Hetty "Handful" Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke's...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F KIDD LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Fredrik Backman
(894,839)
Summary: Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse....
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F BACKMAN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 20 of 20
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by
Trevor Noah
(617,091)
Summary: "The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed." -- Amazon.com.
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB B NOAH
Locations: Adult Displays - Near New Arrivals, Book Club Sets
copies in: 20 of 21
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![A man called Ove [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/158625@2x.jpg)
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by
Fredrik Backman
(897,698)
Summary: Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him the bitter neighbor from hell, but must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F BACKMAN LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 3 of 3
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by
Rachel Joyce
(170,652)
Summary: Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F JOYCE
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 19 of 19
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by
Colleen Hoover
(2,343,341)
Summary: Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up -- she graduated from...
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BOOK
Call #: HOT PICK F HOOVER
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction, Hot Picks
copies in: 1 of 22
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by
Hope Jahren
(64,539)
Summary: Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB B JAHREN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 4 of 19
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![My grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/165027@2x.jpg)
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by
Fredrik Backman
(214,816)
Summary: Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F BACKMAN LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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![Euphoria [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/165713@2x.jpg)
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by
Lily King
(86,259)
Summary: Inspired by the true story of a woman who changed the way we understand our world. In 1933 three young, gifted anthropologists are thrown together in the jungle of New Guinea. They are Nell Stone,...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F KING LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Gail Honeyman
(1,095,955)
Summary: Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F HONEYMAN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 20 of 21
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by
Margaret Atwood
Series:
Handmaid's Tale
(1,891,195)
Summary: This look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F ATWOOD
Locations: Book Club Sets, Large Print Fiction
copies in: 1 of 3
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by
Jodi Picoult
(340,556)
Summary: Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. White supremacist parents don't want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F PICOULT LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ann Hood
(15,524)
Summary: Ava's twenty-five-year marriage has fallen apart, and her two grown children are pursuing their own lives outside of the country. Ava joins a book group, not only for her love of reading but also out...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F HOOD
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 20
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by
David Vann
(4,576)
Summary: Twelve-year-old Caitlin lives alone with her mother -- a docker at the local container port -- in subsidized housing next to an airport in Seattle. Each day, while she waits to be picked up after...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F VANN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 20 of 20
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![Everything I never told you [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/183169@2x.jpg)
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by
Celeste Ng
(497,550)
Summary: Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, Chinese-Americans living in small-town Ohio in the 1970s. Lydia's parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F NG LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Erik Larson
(58,692)
Summary: Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that a hurricane could damage the city...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB 976.4 LAR
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 18 of 18
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by
Jan Karon
Series:
Mitford Series - #1
(63,618)
Summary: A portrait of the mysteries and miracles of everyday life introduces the small North Carolina town of Mitford and its colorful inhabitants, including Tim, a bachelor rector, who is falling in love with his neighbor.
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F KARON
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Kent Haruf
Series:
Holt CO Series - #1
(70,872)
Summary: Ambitious, but never seeming so, Kent Haruf reveals a whole community as he interweaves the stories of a pregnant high school girl, a lonely teacher, a pair of boys abandoned by their mother, and a...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F HARUF
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 17 of 17
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by
Marjorie Hart
(9,038)
Summary: New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson (a native of Story City, Iowa) and Marty Garrett arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shop girls....
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB 381.141 HAR LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 5 of 5
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by
Jennifer Egan
(83,481)
Summary: "The long-awaited, daring, and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan,...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F EGAN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 5 of 18
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by
Jennifer Egan
(83,351)
Summary: Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F EGAN LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Andrew Sean Greer
(184,952)
Summary: Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F GREER
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 5 of 17
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by
Rae Meadows
(2,642)
Summary: "Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F MEADOWS
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 3 of 18
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by
Andrew Sean Greer
(184,952)
Summary: You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F GREER LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Susan Orlean
(108,284)
Summary: On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB 027.4 ORL
Locations: Adult Nonfiction, Book Club Sets
copies in: 20 of 20
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by
Cheryl Strayed
(89,355)
Summary: Brings the best of Cheryl Strayed's published and never-before-published online columns in one place and includes a new introduction by Steve Almond. Life can be hard, life can be great. For years,...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB 170.44 STR
Locations: Adult Nonfiction, Book Club Sets
copies in: 16 of 16
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by
Kamila Shamsie
(62,345)
Summary: "From an internationally acclaimed novelist, the suspenseful and heartbreaking story of a family ripped apart by secrets and driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences. Isma is...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F SHAMSIE
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 17 of 17
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by
Kamila Shamsie
(62,257)
Summary: After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, Isma has accepted an invitation from a mentor in America to resume a dream long deferred. But she can't stop...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F SHAMSIE LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Mark Helprin
(4,418)
Summary: Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour -- a maitre at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust -- must find a balance between his strong obligations to...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F HELPRIN LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Alice Munro
(23,506)
Summary: "In Alice Munro's new collection, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of this incomparable writer." "The runaway of the...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F MUNRO
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 18 of 18
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by
Helene Tursten
(20,596)
Summary: Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and no qualms about a little murder. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F TURSTEN
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 9 of 19
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