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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 #: BK CLUB 027.4 ORL
Locations: Adult Nonfiction, Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 20
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Susan Orlean
(88,376)
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 #: BK CLUB 027.4 ORL LP
copies in: 0 of 2
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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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Gail Honeyman
(811,906)
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
Charles Dickens
Series:
Classic Starts Series
(679,603)
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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Sue Monk Kidd
(275,327)
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: 15 of 15
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Marilynne Robinson
Series:
Gilead Series - #2021
(28,075)
Summary: Abandoning her homeless existence to become a minister's wife, Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband's gentle Christian worldview.
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Call #: BK CLUB F ROBINSON
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 20 of 20
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Sue Monk Kidd
(275,273)
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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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F KIDD LP
copies in: 1 of 2
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Gail Honeyman
(813,851)
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
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 22
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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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Call #: BK CLUB F JOSHI LP
copies in: 0 of 2
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Alka Joshi
(66,192)
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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Call #: BK CLUB F JOSHI
copies in: 0 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
Audrey Niffenegger
(1,613,057)
Summary: A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an...
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Call #: BK CLUB F NIFFENEGGER
copies in: 0 of 15
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P. C Cast
Series:
House Of Night Series - #1
(447,180)
Summary: The House of Night series is set in a world very much like our own, except in 16-year-old Zoey Redbird's world, vampires have always existed. In this first book in the series, Zoey enters the House...
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Call #: YA F CAST
copies in: 1 of 1
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Trevor Noah
(456,206)
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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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 2
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Barbara O'Neal
(148,390)
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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Tea Obreht
(95,716)
Summary: "In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather's recent death. Searching for clues, she turns...
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Call #: BK CLUB F OBREHT
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Ann Patchett
(36,460)
Summary: The author describes her twenty-year friendship with Lucy Grealy, tracing their introduction at a writer's workshop, the integral part their friendship played in their writing careers, and her witness to Grealy's medical deterioration.
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Call #: BK CLUB 155.916 PAT
copies in: 16 of 16
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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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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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Note: The Well Red Book Club is meeting to discuss this book on 5/25/21. Ask for a copy at the Circulation Desk.
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Call #: BK CLUB F THOMPSON
copies in: 7 of 15
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Christina Baker Kline
(385,650)
Summary: "Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of...
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Call #: BK CLUB F KLINE
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 20 of 21
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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
copies in: 0 of 15
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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
Maria Semple
(504,677)
Summary: When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the earth to find her.
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Call #: BK CLUB F SEMPLE
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 14 of 16
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Jess Walter
(163,016)
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
Charlotte Brontë
Series:
Jane Eyre Series
(1,688,063)
Summary: Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her melancholy employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret.
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Call #: BK CLUB F BRONTE
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 15
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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: 15 of 15
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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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Brian Kimberling
(2,071)
Summary: Working as a birdwatching guide to scrape together enough money to survive, Nathan Lochmueller performs nature research in backwater Indiana, where he falls in love with a heartbreaking free spirit...
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Call #: F KIMBERLING
copies in: 16 of 16
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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
Kevin Kwan
Series:
Crazy Rich Asians Series - #1
(366,954)
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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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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Tarashea Nesbit
(6,542)
Summary: "Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London, Chicago--and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to...
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Call #: BK CLUB F NESBIT
copies in: 15 of 15
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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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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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by
Diane Ackerman
(82,507)
Summary: The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most...
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Call #: BK CLUB 940.5318 ACK
copies in: 15 of 15
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