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Marie-Helene Bertino
(6,780)
Summary: On the streets of Philadelphia, on the night before Christmas Eve, three people will discover the potential for their hopes and happiness.
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Call #: BK CLUB F BERTINO
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 20
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Cami Walker
(2,955)
Summary: "At age thirty-five, Cami Walker was burdened by an intensified struggle with multiple sclerosis, a chronic neurological disease that left her debilitated and depressed. Then she received an uncommon...
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Call #: BK CLUB 155.232 WAL
copies in: 0 of 15
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by
Karen Thompson Walker
(89,803)
Summary: "Spellbinding, haunting, The Age of Miracles is a beautiful novel of catastrophe and survival, growth and change, the story of Julia and her family as they struggle to live in an extraordinary time....
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Call #: BK CLUB F WALKER
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Paulo Coelho
(13)
Summary: Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different -- and far more satisfying -- than he ever imagined. Santiago's...
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Call #: F COELHO
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by
Paulo Coelho
(2,240,754)
Summary: Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different -- and far more satisfying -- than he ever imagined. Santiago's...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F COELHO LP
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Lauren Wilkinson
(21,435)
Summary: What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love? It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant and talented, but...
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Call #: BK CLUB F WILKINSON
copies in: 0 of 18
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Lauren Wilkinson
(20,881)
Summary: What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love? It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant and talented, but...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F WILKINSON LP
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
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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by
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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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F ADICHIE LP
Locations: Book Club Sets, Large Print Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
David Vann
(4,129)
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 school,...
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Call #: BK CLUB F VANN
copies in: 10 of 20
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by
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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by
Garth Stein
Summary: Nearing the end of his life, Enzo, a dog with a philosopher's soul, tries to bring together the family, pulled apart by a three year custody battle between daughter Zoe's maternal grandparents and her father Denny, a race car driver.
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Call #: BK CLUB F STEIN
copies in: 20 of 20
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by
Jan Karon
Series:
Mitford Series - #1
(59,440)
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.
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Call #: BK CLUB F KARON
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Lucy Grealy
(24,960)
Summary: At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly...
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Call #: BK CLUB 155.916 GRE
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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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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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
Barbara Kingsolver
(137,429)
Summary: "Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she...
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Call #: BK CLUB F KINGSOLVER
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Jess Walter
(159,757)
Summary: A novel that spans fifty years. The Italian housekeeper and his long-lost American starlet; the producer who once brought them together, and his assistant. A glittering world filled with unforgettable characters.
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Call #: BK CLUB F WALTER
copies in: 0 of 17
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by
Barbara Robinson
Summary: The six horrible Herdmans, the worst children in the history of the world, take over the annual Christmas pageant.
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Call #: BK CLUB J F ROBINSON
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
Kim Michele Richardson
(92,413)
Summary: "Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library...
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Call #: BK CLUB F RICHARDSON
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 19
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by
Kim Michele Richardson
(94,524)
Summary: "Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F RICHARDSON LP
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
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 #: BK CLUB B NOAH
Locations: Adult Biographies, Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 22
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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
Daniel Brown
(236,808)
Summary: "Out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times - the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class...
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Call #: 797.123 BRO
Locations: Adult Nonfiction, Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 16
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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
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
Masha Hamilton
(2,235)
Summary: "Evocative, seamless, and haunting, The Camel Bookmobile is a powerful saga that challenges our fears of the unknown. It is a story that captures the riddles and calamities that often occur when two...
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Call #: F HAMILTON
copies in: 1 of 16
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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
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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Note: The Lunchtime Lit Book Club is meeting to discuss this book on 04/15/2021. Ask for a copy at the Circulation Desk.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F BENEDICT LP
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
David Baldacci
(23,756)
Summary: Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any...
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Call #: BK CLUB F BALDACCI
copies in: 0 of 15
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by
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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by
Dave Eggers
(187,784)
Summary: When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California...
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Call #: BK CLUB F EGGERS
copies in: 0 of 17
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by
Anthony Marra
(51,382)
Summary: In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, a failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and...
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Call #: BK CLUB F MARRA
copies in: 14 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
Kevin Kwan
Series:
Crazy Rich Asians Series - #1
(360,148)
Summary: Envisioning a summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that strongly opposes their son's relationship with an American girl.
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Call #: BK CLUB F KWAN
copies in: 0 of 22
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by
Leonard S. Goldberg
Summary: 1914. Joanna Blalock’s keen mind and incredible insight lead her to become a highly-skilled nurse, one of the few professions that allow her to use her finely-tuned brain. But when she and her...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F GOLDBERG LP
copies in: 0 of 1
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