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Charmaine Wilkerson
(100,192)
Summary: In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with a...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F WILKERSON LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 2
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Staff Pick
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Eley Williams
(8,403)
Summary: Peter Winceworth, a disaffected Victorian lexicographer, inserts false entries into a dictionary -- violating and subverting the dictionary's authority -- in an attempt to assert some sense of...
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Call #: BK CLUB F WILLIAMS
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 5 of 19
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Lauren Wilkinson
(27,398)
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: 16 of 18
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Gene Weingarten
(2,992)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 18 of 18
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![American spy [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/226914@2x.jpg)
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by
Lauren Wilkinson
(27,275)
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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Glendy Vanderah
(169,846)
Summary: After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships...
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Call #: F VANDERAH
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 9 of 19
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Helene Tursten
(20,596)
Summary: Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and no qualms about a little murder. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has...
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Call #: BK CLUB F TURSTEN
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 9 of 19
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J. D. Vance
(392,635)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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![Hillbilly elegy [large print] : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/207507@2x.jpg)
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J. D. Vance
(392,689)
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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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB 305.562 VAN LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 3 of 3
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David Vann
(4,576)
Summary: Twelve-year-old Caitlin lives alone with her mother -- a docker at the local container port -- in subsidized housing next to an airport in Seattle. Each day, while she waits to be picked up after...
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Call #: BK CLUB F VANN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 20 of 20
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![The storied life of A.J. Fikry [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/238703@2x.jpg)
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Gabrielle Zevin
(254,211)
Summary: A. J. Fikry's life is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died; his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history; and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe...
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Call #: BK CLUB F ZEVIN LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 2
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Gabrielle Zevin
(257,859)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 3 of 18
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Cheryl Strayed
(89,355)
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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by
Markus Zusak
(151,863)
Summary: Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the...
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Call #: BK CLUB YA F ZUSAK
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 18 of 18
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Walter S. Tevis
(101,018)
Summary: Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given...
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Call #: BK CLUB F TEVIS
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 10 of 19
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