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by
Lisa Gardner
Series:
D. D. Warren Series - #8
(44,577)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Lisa Gardner
Series:
Detective D. D. Warren Novels - #8
Summary: Seven years ago, college student Flora Danes was kidnapped while on spring break. Miraculously alive after her 472-day ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F GARDNER LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Trevor Noah
(512,569)
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.
BOOK
Call #: B NOAH
Locations: Adult Biographies, Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 22
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by
Maria Semple
(522,131)
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.
BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F SEMPLE
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 16 of 16
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by
Marjorie Hart
(8,527)
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 LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 5 of 5
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by
Marjorie Hart
(8,566)
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
Jostein Gaarder
(227,376)
Summary: One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, each with a question: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From this irresistible...
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Call #: BK CLUB F GAARDER
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 18 of 18
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by
Ann Hood
(14,599)
Summary: Ava's twenty-five-year marriage has fallen apart, and her two grown children are pursuing their own lives outside of the country. Ava joins a book group, not only for her love of reading but also out...
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Call #: BK CLUB F HOOD
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 20
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by
Gail Honeyman
(932,596)
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: 0 of 22
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by
Gail Honeyman
(876,984)
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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Staff Pick
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by
Gail Honeyman
(910,801)
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
Tana French
Series:
Dublin Murder Squad Novels - #1
(355,085)
Summary: As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When...
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Call #: BK CLUB F FRENCH
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 15
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by
Chad Harbach
(114,137)
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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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F HARBACH LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Christina Baker Kline
(403,839)
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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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F KLINE
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 21 of 21
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by
Terese Marie Mailhot
(21,195)
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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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB 362.196 MAI
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 18 of 18
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by
Allen Eskens
Series:
Max Rupert Novels - #1
(93,675)
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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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F ESKENS
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 16
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by
Allen Eskens
Series:
Max Rupert Novels
(93,952)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 2
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by
Alice Munro
(22,019)
Summary: "In Alice Munro's new collection, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of this incomparable writer." "The runaway of the...
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Call #: BK CLUB F MUNRO
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 18 of 18
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by
Mark Helprin
(3,994)
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...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F HELPRIN LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Tommy Orange
(144,724)
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: 0 of 18
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by
Linda Holmes
(104,028)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 18
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by
Linda Holmes
(106,775)
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...
more »
LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F HOLMES LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 2
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by
Mark Helprin
(3,977)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 18 of 18
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by
Michelle McNamara
(201,582)
Summary: A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer-- the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade-- from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who...
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Note: Silent Book Club selection for January. Please ask for a copy at the circulation desk.
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Call #: BK CLUB 364.1532 MCN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 11 of 15
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by
Celeste Ng
(420,599)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 18 of 18
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by
Jess Kidd
(10,503)
Summary: "Having been abandoned on the steps of an orphanage as an infant, lovable car thief and Dublin charmer Mahony assumed all his life that his mother had simply given him up. But when he receives an...
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Call #: BK CLUB F KIDD
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 18 of 18
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by
Stephanie Land
(55,194)
Summary: At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer, were cut short when a...
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Note: The Thursday Night book club will be discussing this title 1/11/22. Please ask for a copy at the circulation desk.
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Call #: BK CLUB 305.569 LAN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 8 of 18
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by
Stephanie Land
(55,194)
Summary: At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer, were cut short when a...
more »
Note: The Thursday Night book club will be discussing this title on 1/11/22. Please ask for a copy at the circulation desk.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB 305.569 LAN LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Stassi Schroeder
(9,044)
Summary: Fans of the Bravo TV show Vanderpump Rules and podcast listeners know Stassi Schroeder not only for her no-holds-barred comments but also as a major defender of Basic Bitch rights. She knows that...
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BOOK
Call #: B SCHROEDER
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Billie Jean King
(1,404)
Summary: Billie Jean King was only seven years old when she told her mother, I'm going to do something great with my life someday. But the world she wanted did not exist yet, so she set out to create it. In...
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Call #: B KING
Location: New Adult Biographies
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Erin French
(4,916)
Summary: Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every seating filled the day the reservation book opens each spring, Erin French was a girl roaming barefoot on a 25-acre farm, a...
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Call #: B FRENCH
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Brandi Carlile
(13,144)
Summary: Brandi Carlile was born into a musically gifted, impoverished family on the outskirts of Seattle and grew up in a constant state of change, moving from house to house, trailer to trailer, fourteen...
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BOOK
Call #: B CARLILE
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Lynsey Addario , photographer
(10,982)
Summary: Lynsey Addario was just finding her way as a young photographer when September 11 changed the world. One of the few photojournalists with experience in Afghanistan, she gets the call to return and...
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BOOK
Call #: B ADDARIO
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Adrienne Brodeur
(23,389)
Summary: A daughter's tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity. On a hot July night on Cape Cod when Adrienne was 14, her mother,...
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Call #: B BRODEUR
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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