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by
Agatha Christie
Series:
Hercule Poirot Series
(119,605)
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: 0 of 15
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by
Karen Thompson Walker
(84,802)
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
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by
Eli Brown
(6,130)
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: 0 of 15
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by
Helen Macdonald
(56,425)
Summary: "As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which...
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Call #: BK CLUB 598.944 MAC
Locations: Adult Nonfiction, Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 21
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by
Sue Monk Kidd
(259,648)
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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Call #: BK CLUB F KIDD
copies in: 0 of 15
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by
Dave Eggers
(181,834)
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 20
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by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
(253,605)
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: 0 of 15
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by
Lisa Gardner
Series:
D. D. Warren Series - #8
(39,335)
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: 0 of 15
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by
Ann Hood
(13,380)
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: 0 of 20
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by
Barbara Kingsolver
(134,213)
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: 0 of 15
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by
Marjorie Hart
(7,984)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 5
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by
Jennifer Egan
(71,792)
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: 0 of 18
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by
Susannah Cahalan
(159,277)
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: 0 of 18
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by
Mark Helprin
(3,405)
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: 0 of 18
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by
Tommy Orange
(104,271)
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: 0 of 18
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by
Jodi Picoult
(222,126)
Summary: "This stunning new novel is Jodi Picoult at her finest--complete with unflinching insights, richly layered characters, and a page-turning plot with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart. Ruth...
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Call #: BK CLUB F PICOULT
copies in: 0 of 15
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by
Francesca Hornak
(11,065)
Summary: "A warm, wry, sharply observed debut novel about what happens when a family is forced to spend a week together in quarantine over the holidays ... It's Christmas, and for the first time in years the...
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Call #: BK CLUB F HORNAK
copies in: 0 of 15
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by
Gail Caldwell
(10,714)
Summary: Traces the author's close friendship with the late fellow writer Caroline Knapp, describing their shared experiences with sobriety, a love of dogs, and Caroline's battle with cancer.
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Call #: BK CLUB 302.34 CAL
copies in: 0 of 15
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by
Cea Sunrise Person
(7,081)
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: 0 of 15
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by
Marjorie Hart
(7,984)
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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Call #: BK CLUB 381.141 HAR
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 10
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Gail Honeyman
(485,447)
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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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F HONEYMAN LP
copies in: 0 of 3
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by
David Baldacci
(19,261)
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
Gail Honeyman
(676,797)
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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Call #: BK CLUB F HONEYMAN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 11
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by
Kim Michele Richardson
(16,175)
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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Note: The Lunchtime Lit is meeting to discuss this book on 3/19/20. Ask for a copy at the Circulation Desk.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F RICHARDSON LP
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Susan Orlean
(75,574)
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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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB 027.4 ORL LP
copies in: 0 of 2
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Linda Holmes
(76,968)
Summary: In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn't...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F HOLMES LP
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Rebecca Solnit
(49,589)
Summary: In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things...
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Call #: BK CLUB 305.42 SOL
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by
Leonard S. Goldberg
Summary: The year is 1914. Joanna Blalock is a highly-skilled nurse. But when she and her ten-year-old son witness a man fall to his death, apparently by suicide, they are visited by the elderly Dr. John...
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Note: The Well Red Book Club is meeting to discuss this book on 10/27/2020. Ask for a copy at the Circulation Desk.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F GOLDBERG LP
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Allen Eskens
Series:
Max Rupert Novels
(81,182)
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: 0 of 1
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by
Oyinkan Braithwaite
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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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F BRAITHWAITE LP
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Tembi Locke
(15,636)
Summary: A poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story set against the lush backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food and family in her darkest hour....
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Call #: BK CLUB B LOCKE
copies in: 0 of 18
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by
Tembi Locke
(16,211)
Summary: A poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story set against the lush backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food and family in her darkest hour....
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB B LOCKE LP
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Lauren Wilkinson
(15,833)
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 ON ORDER
copies in: 0 of 19
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by
Lauren Wilkinson
(15,860)
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
Alka Joshi
(27,994)
Summary: Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist -- and confidante...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F JOSHI LP
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Gene Weingarten
(1,692)
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: 0 of 18
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by
Susan Orlean
(73,811)
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...
more »
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Call #: 027.4 ORL
Locations: Adult Nonfiction, Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 21
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by
Cheryl Strayed
(62,813)
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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by
Stacey O'Brien
(9,570)
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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by
Trevor Noah
(375,737)
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
copies in: 2 of 22
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