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Nancy Horan
(93,123)
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
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Ann Patchett
(37,342)
Summary: Pregnant and alone, Rose seeks sanctuary at St. Elizabeth's, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, where she at last finds a place to put down the roots she has never felt she had.
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Call #: BK CLUB F PATCHETT
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 15
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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
Jean Thompson
Summary: "In this mesmerizing saga of one ordinary American family's proud, flawed, hopeful navigating the tumultuous final decades of the American century, Jean Thompson delivers a sweeping, powerful novel...
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Call #: BK CLUB F THOMPSON
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by
Julia Glass
(10,789)
Summary: Enjoying an active but lonely rural life, seventy-year-old Percy allows a progressive preschool to move into his barn and transform his quiet home into a lively, youthful community that compels him...
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Call #: BK CLUB F GLASS
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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
Kevin Kwan
Series:
Crazy Rich Asians Series - #1
(354,234)
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 23
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by
Gabrielle Zevin
(206,933)
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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Call #: BK CLUB F ZEVIN
copies in: 0 of 18
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by
Marie-Helene Bertino
(6,722)
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 #: F BERTINO
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 21
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by
Ruth L Ozeki
(83,021)
Summary: In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her...
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Call #: BK CLUB F OZEKI
copies in: 0 of 20
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by
Fredrik Backman
(165,102)
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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Call #: BK CLUB F BACKMAN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 20
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by
Tessa Hadley
(6,814)
Summary: Over five novels and two collections of stories Tessa Hadley has earned a reputation as a fiction writer of remarkable gifts, and been compared with Elizabeth Bowen and Alice Munro. In her new novel...
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Call #: BK CLUB F HADLEY
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by
Trevor Noah
(427,084)
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
Ann Hood
(13,692)
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
Graeme Macrae Burnet
(28,346)
Summary: "A brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae. There is no question that Macrae committed this terrible act. What...
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Call #: BK CLUB F BURNET
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 20
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by
Celeste Ng
(362,280)
Summary: "Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of...
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Call #: BK CLUB F NG
copies in: 0 of 18
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by
David Grann
(139,356)
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: 0 of 18
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by
Steve Kluger
(4,453)
Summary: Joey Margolis, a young boy whose father has deserted the family, begins writing baseball player Charlie Banks and forms a relationship with the third baseman that changes both their lives for the better.
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Call #: BK CLUB F KLUGER
copies in: 0 of 15
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by
Doreen Orion
(1,615)
Summary: A pampered Long Island princess hits the road in a converted bus with her wilderness-loving husband, travels the country for one year, and brings it all hilariously to life in this offbeat and romantic memoir.
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Call #: BK CLUB 917.304 ORI
copies in: 0 of 15
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by
Rae Meadows
(2,403)
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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Call #: BK CLUB F MEADOWS
copies in: 0 of 18
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by
Tommy Orange
(122,426)
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
J. D. Vance
(331,351)
Summary: Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the...
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Call #: BK CLUB 305.562 VAN
copies in: 0 of 15
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by
Jodi Picoult
(278,344)
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
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by
Karen Kondazian
(6,179)
Summary: The Whip is inspired by the true story of a woman, Charlotte "Charley" Parkhurst (1812-1879) who lived most of her extraordinary life as a man in the old west. As a young woman in Rhode Island, she...
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Call #: BK CLUB F KONDAZIAN
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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
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Gail Honeyman
(790,872)
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 LP
copies in: 0 of 3
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J. D. Vance
(311,736)
Summary: Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the...
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Call #: BK CLUB 305.562 VAN LP
copies in: 0 of 3
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by
Gail Honeyman
(790,888)
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
Barbara O'Neal
(119,078)
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: 0 of 19
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by
Kim Michele Richardson
(84,834)
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
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by
Kristin Hannah
(384,514)
Summary: Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future...
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Call #: BK CLUB F HANNAH
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by
Francesca Hornak
(16,360)
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
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Oyinkan Braithwaite
(168,152)
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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Call #: BK CLUB F BRAITHWAITE LP
copies in: 0 of 1
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Oyinkan Braithwaite
(175,371)
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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Call #: BK CLUB F BRAITHWAITE
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Linda Holmes
(88,646)
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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Call #: BK CLUB F HOLMES LP
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by
Kim Michele Richardson
(87,525)
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 LP
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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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Call #: BK CLUB F GOLDBERG LP
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by
William Kent Krueger
(70,323)
Summary: Minnesota, 1932. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named...
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Call #: BK CLUB F KRUEGER
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