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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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Sue Monk Kidd
(272,430)
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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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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Sue Monk Kidd
(272,397)
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: 2 of 2
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Jennifer Egan
(74,278)
Summary: "The long-awaited, daring, and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan,...
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Call #: BK CLUB F EGAN
copies in: 18 of 18
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Charles Dickens
Series:
Classic Starts Series
(667,618)
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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Lily King
(74,965)
Summary: English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in 1930s New Guinea. Haunted by the memory of his brothers' deaths and increasingly...
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Call #: BK CLUB F KING
copies in: 19 of 19
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Amor Towles
(325,644)
Summary: "A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is...
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Call #: BK CLUB F TOWLES
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 19 of 19
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
(81,995)
Summary: "It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be...
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Call #: BK CLUB F NGUYEN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 19 of 19
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
(81,441)
Summary: "It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F NGUYEN LP
copies in: 2 of 2
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Sarah Waters
(75,361)
Summary: It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now...
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Call #: BK CLUB F WATERS
copies in: 20 of 20
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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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Call #: BK CLUB F THOMPSON
copies in: 0 of 15
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Charlotte Brontë
Series:
Jane Eyre Series
(1,669,558)
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: 15 of 15
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Graham Swift
(11,078)
Summary: "From the Booker Award winner: a luminous, profoundly moving work of fiction that begins with an afternoon tryst in 1924 between a servant girl and the young man of the neighboring house, but then...
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Call #: BK CLUB F SWIFT
copies in: 21 of 21
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Graham Swift
(11,008)
Summary: "From the Booker Award winner: a luminous, profoundly moving work of fiction that begins with an afternoon tryst in 1924 between a servant girl and the young man of the neighboring house, but then...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F SWIFT
copies in: 2 of 2
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Tarashea Nesbit
(6,513)
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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Thanhha Lai
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 #: PLAYAWAY YA F LAI
copies in: 2 of 2
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Thanhha Lai
(47,128)
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 #: YA CD BOOK F LAI
copies in: 3 of 3
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Thanhha Lai
(47,236)
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
copies in: 20 of 20
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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
copies in: 0 of 18
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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
copies in: 0 of 19
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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
copies in: 0 of 15
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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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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F RICHARDSON LP
copies in: 0 of 1
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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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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F GOLDBERG LP
copies in: 0 of 1
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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
copies in: 0 of 18
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William Kent Krueger
(58,203)
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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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F KRUEGER LP
copies in: 0 of 1
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Lauren Wilkinson
(20,739)
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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Note: The Lunchtime Lit Book Club is meeting to discuss this book on 3/18/21. Ask for a copy at the Circulation Desk.
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Call #: BK CLUB F WILKINSON
copies in: 8 of 18
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Lauren Wilkinson
(20,622)
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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Note: The Lunchtime Lit Book Club is meeting to discuss this book on 3/18/21. Ask for a copy at the Circulation Desk.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F WILKINSON LP
copies in: 1 of 1
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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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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F JOSHI LP
copies in: 0 of 1
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Marie Benedict
(27,508)
Summary: Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F BENEDICT LP
copies in: 0 of 1
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Marie Benedict
(27,508)
Summary: Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and...
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Call #: BK CLUB F BENEDICT
copies in: 0 of 18
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Robin Oliveira
(22,816)
Summary: In this stunning historical novel, which opens on the eve of the Civil War, Mary Sutter is a brilliant, headstrong midwife from Albany, New York, who dreams of becoming a surgeon. Determined to...
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Call #: BK CLUB F OLIVEIRA
copies in: 16 of 16
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