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Susan Orlean
(89,053)
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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Call #: 027.4 ORL
Locations: Adult Nonfiction, Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 20
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Cheryl Strayed
(69,408)
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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Call #: 170.44 STR
Locations: Adult Nonfiction, Book Club Sets
copies in: 16 of 16
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Stacey O'Brien
(10,566)
Summary: Written with the same heartwarming sentiment that made the memoir "Marley & Me" a runaway bestseller, biologist and owl expert O'Brien chronicles her rescue of an adorable, abandoned baby barn...
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Call #: 598.97 O'BR
copies in: 16 of 16
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Trevor Noah
(442,876)
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.
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Call #: B NOAH
Locations: Adult Biographies, Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 22
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Maya Angelou
(430,969)
Summary: Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local...
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Call #: BK CLUB B ANGELOU
copies in: 15 of 15
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Kelly Corrigan
(15,882)
Summary: A memoir that examines the bond -- sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divine -- between mothers and daughters. When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly...
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Call #: BK CLUB B CORRIGAN
copies in: 15 of 15
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Lauren Redniss
(5,162)
Summary: Through words and her crafted illustrations, artist and journalist Lauren Redniss tells the story of Marie Curie, nee Marya Sklodowska, and her working and romantic relationship with Pierre Curie,...
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Note: The Thursday Night Book Club is meeting to discuss this book on 05/13/2021. Ask for a copy at the Circulation Desk.
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Call #: BK CLUB B CURIE
copies in: 6 of 18
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Hope Jahren
(56,735)
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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Call #: BK CLUB B JAHREN
copies in: 20 of 20
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Cea Sunrise Person
(10,189)
Summary: Growing up off the grid amid multiple generations of dysfunction, former model Person chronicles her journey to reclaim her life on her own terms. Determined to abandon civilization for a...
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Call #: BK CLUB B PERSON
copies in: 15 of 15
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Julia Sweeney
(467)
Summary: Actress Julia Sweeney, best known as "Pat" on Saturday Night Live, shares the year in her life when her younger brother Mike, their parents, and siblings moved into Julia's new home to be near Mike...
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Call #: BK CLUB B SWEENEY
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(290,031)
Summary: "Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to...
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Call #: BK CLUB F ADICHIE
copies in: 6 of 16
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(289,212)
Summary: "Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to...
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Call #: BK CLUB F ADICHIE LP
Locations: Book Club Sets, Large Print Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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Margaret Atwood
Series:
Handmaid's Tale
(1,550,974)
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.
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Call #: BK CLUB F ATWOOD LP
copies in: 2 of 2
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Fredrik Backman
(628,872)
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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Call #: BK CLUB F BACKMAN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 20 of 20
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Aimee Bender
(62,020)
Summary: On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. She...
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Call #: BK CLUB F BENDER
copies in: 18 of 18
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Marie Benedict
(28,383)
Summary: Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and...
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Call #: BK CLUB F BENEDICT
copies in: 6 of 18
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Oyinkan Braithwaite
(182,302)
Summary: "Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you...
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Note: The Silent Book Club is meeting to discuss this book on April. Ask for a copy at the Circulation Desk.
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Call #: BK CLUB F BRAITHWAITE
copies in: 14 of 18
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Oyinkan Braithwaite
(180,229)
Summary: "Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you...
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Note: The Silent Book Club is meeting to discuss this book on April. Ask for a copy at the Circulation Desk.
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Call #: BK CLUB F BRAITHWAITE LP
copies in: 1 of 1
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Eli Brown
(6,421)
Summary: In 1819, kidnapped chef Owen Wedgwood transforms meager shipboard supplies into sumptuous meals at the behest of his kidnapper, pirate queen Mad Hannah Mabbot, while she pushes her exhausted crew to track down a deadly privateer.
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Call #: BK CLUB F BROWN
copies in: 15 of 15
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Mike Carey
(196,249)
Summary: Not every gift is a blessing. Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap...
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Call #: BK CLUB F CAREY
copies in: 15 of 15
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Wiley Cash
(23,832)
Summary: Growing up in a small North Carolina town, Jess Halle is plunged into an adulthood for which he is not prepared when his autistic older brother, Stump, sneaks a look at something he is not supposed to see, which has catastrophic repercussions.
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Call #: BK CLUB F CASH
copies in: 18 of 18
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Agatha Christie
Series:
Hercule Poirot Series
(169,102)
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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Call #: BK CLUB F CHRISTIE
copies in: 15 of 15
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Charles Dickens
Series:
Classic Starts Series
(673,964)
Summary: Great Expectations is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable characters come to play their...
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Call #: BK CLUB F DICKENS
copies in: 15 of 15
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Jennifer Egan
(75,084)
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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Call #: BK CLUB F EGAN
copies in: 18 of 18
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Allen Eskens
Series:
Max Rupert Novels - #1
(89,579)
Summary: "College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines...
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Call #: BK CLUB F ESKENS
copies in: 16 of 16
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Allen Eskens
Series:
Max Rupert Novels
(89,863)
Summary: "College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines...
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Call #: BK CLUB F ESKENS LP
copies in: 1 of 1
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Laura Esquivel
(331,005)
Summary: "Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. A...
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Call #: BK CLUB F ESQUIVEL
copies in: 15 of 15
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Tana French
Series:
Dublin Murder Squad Novels - #1
(325,787)
Summary: Detective Rob Ryan and his partner, Cassie Maddox, investigate the murder of a 12-year-old girl near a Dublin suburb. The case resonates with similarities to a murder committed twenty years before that involved two children and the young Ryan.
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Call #: BK CLUB F FRENCH
copies in: 15 of 15
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Lisa Gardner
Series:
D. D. Warren Series - #8
(42,102)
Summary: "Flora Dane is a victim. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure. Flora Dane is a...
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Call #: BK CLUB F GARDNER
copies in: 15 of 15
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Lisa Genova
(36,977)
Summary: A once accomplished concert pianist, Richard now has ALS. As he becomes increasingly paralyzed and is no longer able to live on his own, Karina becomes his reluctant caretaker. As Richard's muscles,...
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Call #: BK CLUB F GENOVA
copies in: 15 of 15
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Theodora Goss
(16,199)
Summary: Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents' death, is curious about the secrets of her father's mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father's former friend...
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Call #: BK CLUB F GOSS
copies in: 19 of 19
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Andrew Sean Greer
(138,005)
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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Call #: BK CLUB F GREER
copies in: 17 of 17
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Chad Harbach
(110,126)
Summary: "At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big-league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the...
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Call #: BK CLUB F HARBACH
copies in: 15 of 15
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Kent Haruf
Series:
Holt CO Series - #1
(66,421)
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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Call #: BK CLUB F HARUF
copies in: 15 of 15
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Mark Helprin
(3,674)
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 the...
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Call #: BK CLUB F HELPRIN
copies in: 18 of 18
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Ann Hood
(13,861)
Summary: "An enthralling novel about love, loss, secrets, friendship, and the healing power of literature, by the bestselling author of The Knitting Circle. Ava's twenty-five-year marriage has fallen apart,...
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Call #: BK CLUB F HOOD
copies in: 9 of 20
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Colleen Hoover
(254,805)
Summary: "The newest, highly anticipated novel from beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author, Colleen Hoover. Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most. Lily hasn't always had it easy,...
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Call #: BK CLUB F HOOVER
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 11 of 16
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Michelle Hoover
(1,064)
Summary: At once intimate and sweeping, Bottomland-the anticipated second novel from Michelle Hoover-follows the Hess family in the years after World War I as they attempt to rid themselves of the anti-German...
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Call #: BK CLUB F HOOVER
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 21 of 21
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Nancy Horan
(93,729)
Summary: This fictionalization of the life of Mamah Borthwick Cheney, best known as the woman who wrecked Frank Lloyd Wright's first marriage, is a portrayal of an independent, educated woman at odds with the...
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Call #: BK CLUB F HORAN
copies in: 15 of 15
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Rachel Joyce
(154,686)
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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Call #: BK CLUB F JOYCE
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 18 of 18
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