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Susan Orlean
(101,321)
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: 0 of 20
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Susan Orlean
(93,784)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 1
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Susan Orlean
(101,815)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 2
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Sue Monk Kidd
(293,885)
Summary: Hetty "Handful" Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke's...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F KIDD LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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Gail Honeyman
(981,172)
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 #: F HONEYMAN
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 11 of 22
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Sue Monk Kidd
(293,903)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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Marilynne Robinson
Series:
Gilead Series - #2021
(30,593)
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: 5 of 20
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Gail Honeyman
(956,125)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 3
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Gail Honeyman
(977,437)
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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Charles Dickens
Series:
Classic Starts Series
(725,637)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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Alka Joshi
(125,946)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 18
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Alka Joshi
Series:
Henna Artist
(119,986)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 2
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Theodora Goss
(20,837)
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
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 19 of 19
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Audrey Niffenegger
(1,687,097)
Summary: This is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course....
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Note: The Well Red book club is meeting to discuss this book on 6/29/21. Ask for a copy at the Circulation Desk.
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Call #: BK CLUB F NIFFENEGGER
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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P. C Cast
Series:
House Of Night Series - #1
(466,138)
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
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Trevor Noah
(547,838)
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 Sets
copies in: 16 of 22
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by
Lauren Wilkinson
(25,660)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 11 of 18
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Lauren Wilkinson
(25,660)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Barbara O'Neal
(191,412)
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 #: BK CLUB F O'NEAL
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 18 of 19
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Jessica Francis Kane
(9,874)
Summary: A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year. At forty, May Attaway is...
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Call #: F KANE
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 19
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Tea Obreht
(97,442)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Kent Haruf
Series:
Holt CO Series - #1
(68,923)
Summary: Ambitious, but never seeming so, Kent Haruf reveals a whole community as he interweaves the stories of a pregnant high school girl, a lonely teacher, a pair of boys abandoned by their mother, and a...
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Call #: BK CLUB F HARUF
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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Thanhha Lai
(54,627)
Summary: Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
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Call #: BK CLUB YA F LAI
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 20 of 20
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Terese Marie Mailhot
(21,801)
Summary: Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to...
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Call #: BK CLUB 362.196 MAI
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 18
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Tommy Orange
(147,896)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 18 of 18
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Tommy Orange
(148,261)
Summary: A multigenerational story about violence and recovery, memory and identity, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. It tells the story of twelve characters, each...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F ORANGE LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 3
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J. D. Vance
(373,067)
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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Note: The Well Red book club will be discussing this title on 7/26/22. Please ask for a copy at the circulation desk.
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Call #: BK CLUB 305.562 VAN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 5 of 15
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Karen Kondazian
(6,738)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 18
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David Baldacci
(26,799)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 15
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Mike Carey
(207,406)
Summary: Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be taken to class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they...
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Call #: BK CLUB F CAREY
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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Lisa Genova
(40,059)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 15
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Francesca Hornak
(18,999)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 15
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Gail Caldwell
(11,353)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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Cea Sunrise Person
(11,985)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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Jan Karon
(62,046)
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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Marjorie Hart
(8,695)
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: 10 of 10
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by
Jan Karon
Series:
Mitford Series - #1
(62,019)
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
Barbara Kingsolver
(143,123)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Angie Thomas
(723,410)
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 #: BK CLUB YA F THOMAS
Locations: Book Club Sets, YA Fiction
copies in: 14 of 17
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by
Cheryl Strayed
(77,813)
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 #: BK CLUB 170.44 STR
Locations: Adult Nonfiction, Book Club Sets
copies in: 16 of 16
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