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Gene Weingarten
(2,246)
Summary: On New Year's Day 2013, author Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional...
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Call #: BK CLUB 973.927 WEI
copies in: 1 of 18
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Peter Hessler
(1,535)
Summary: Drawn by an abiding fascination with Egypt's rich history and civilization, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo to explore a place that had a powerful hold over his...
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Call #: BK CLUB 962 HES
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Denise Mina
(33,449)
Summary: A breathtaking thriller about a wealthy housewife who successfully conceals her dark past until a true-crime podcast and a photo posted on social media send her running across Europe, with a faded...
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Note: The Lunchtime Lit Book Club is meeting to discuss this book on 05/20/2021. Ask for a copy at the Circulation Desk.
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Call #: BK CLUB F MINA
copies in: 7 of 18
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by
Margaret Atwood
(12,400)
Summary: Margaret Atwood's best-loved novel has taken the world by storm again. Riding high on bestseller lists for months and the basis for Hulu's Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning smash hit series, The...
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Call #: BK CLUB 741.59 ATW
Locations: Adult Nonfiction, Book Club Sets
copies in: 16 of 16
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by
Tommy Orange
(128,927)
Summary: Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxedrene is...
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Call #: BK CLUB F ORANGE
copies in: 18 of 18
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by
Michelle McNamara
(176,721)
Summary: A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer-- the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade-- from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who...
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Call #: BK CLUB 364.1532 MCN
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
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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by
Barbara O'Neal
(134,859)
Summary: From the author of The Art of Inheriting Secrets comes an emotional new tale of two sisters, an ocean of lies, and a search for the truth. Her sister has been dead for fifteen years when she sees her...
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Call #: F O'NEAL
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 19
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by
Sigrid Nunez
(27,722)
Summary: A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog. When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened...
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Call #: BK CLUB F NUNEZ
copies in: 18 of 18
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by
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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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: 16 of 18
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by
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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by
Tommy Orange
(126,639)
Summary: Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxedrene is...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F ORANGE
Locations: Book Club Sets, Large Print Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
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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by
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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by
Susannah Cahalan
(177,393)
Summary: One day in 2009, twenty-four-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a "flight risk,"...
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Call #: BK CLUB 616.832 CAH
copies in: 18 of 18
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by
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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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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by
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: 8 of 18
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by
David Grann
(142,426)
Summary: In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built...
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Call #: BK CLUB 364.1523 GRA
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 18 of 18
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by
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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by
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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by
Angie Thomas
(564,461)
Summary: After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
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Call #: YA F THOMAS
Locations: Book Club Sets, YA Fiction
copies in: 8 of 17
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by
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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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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by
Jess Kidd
(9,276)
Summary: "Having been abandoned on the steps of an orphanage as an infant, lovable car thief and Dublin charmer Mahony assumed all his life that his mother had simply given him up. But when he receives an...
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Call #: BK CLUB F KIDD
copies in: 18 of 18
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by
Kamila Shamsie
(46,938)
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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Call #: BK CLUB F SHAMSIE
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 17 of 17
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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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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F ESKENS LP
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Graham Swift
(11,190)
Summary: "From the Booker Award winner: a luminous, profoundly moving work of fiction that begins with an afternoon tryst in 1924 between a servant girl and the young man of the neighboring house, but then...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F SWIFT
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Joshua Hammer
(8,858)
Summary: In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 025.82 HAM
Locations: Book Club Sets, Large Print Nonfiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
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: 10 of 16
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by
Michelle Hoover
(1,067)
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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by
Elizabeth Strout
(117,045)
Summary: "Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's...
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Call #: BK CLUB F STROUT
copies in: 20 of 20
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Fredrik Backman
(168,195)
Summary: "From the author of the internationally bestselling A Man Called Ove, a charming, warmhearted novel about a young girl whose grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters, sending her on a...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F BACKMAN
copies in: 1 of 2
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by
Joshua Hammer
(8,948)
Summary: In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of...
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Call #: BK CLUB 025.82 HAM
copies in: 20 of 20
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by
Paul Kalanithi
(451,273)
Summary: "For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer...
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Call #: BK CLUB 616.9942 KAL
copies in: 20 of 21
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by
Graham Swift
(11,247)
Summary: "From the Booker Award winner: a luminous, profoundly moving work of fiction that begins with an afternoon tryst in 1924 between a servant girl and the young man of the neighboring house, but then...
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Call #: BK CLUB F SWIFT
copies in: 21 of 21
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by
Amor Towles
(336,474)
Summary: "A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is...
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Call #: BK CLUB F TOWLES
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 19 of 19
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by
Kelly Link
(9,882)
Summary: A collection of short stories features tales of a young girl who plays caretaker to mysterious guests at the cottage behind her house and a former teen idol who becomes involved in a bizarre reality show.
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Call #: BK CLUB F LINK
copies in: 20 of 20
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