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Susan Orlean
(108,608)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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William Kent Krueger
(133,729)
Summary: New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were at the ready at Halderson's Drug Store soda counter, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on...
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Call #: BK CLUB F KRUEGER LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 2
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Sara Nisha Adams
Summary: Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Ealing after losing his beloved wife. He worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching...
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Call #: BK CLUB F ADAMS LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 2
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by
Susan Orlean
(108,608)
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: 2 of 2
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by
Fiona Davis
Summary: It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life -- her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within...
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Call #: BK CLUB F DAVIS LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 2
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by
Kim Michele Richardson
(181,143)
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 LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
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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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F ZEVIN LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 2
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by
Margaret Atwood
Series:
Handmaid's Tale
(1,891,195)
Summary: This look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F ATWOOD
Locations: Book Club Sets, Large Print Fiction
copies in: 1 of 3
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by
Christina Baker Kline
(425,044)
Summary: Nearly eighteen, Molly Ayer knows she has one last chance. Just months from "aging out" of the child welfare system, and close to being kicked out of her foster home, a community service position...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F KLINE LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Stephanie Land
(80,546)
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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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB 305.569 LAN LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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Tembi Locke
(37,113)
Summary: A poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story set against the lush backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food and family in her darkest hour....
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB B LOCKE LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 2
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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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by
Angie Thomas
(800,150)
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.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB YA F THOMAS LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 2
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by
Thanhha Lai
(57,486)
Summary: For all the ten years of her life, H̉ has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, and the warmth of her friends close by. But now the Vietnam War has reached her...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB YA F LAI LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Melanie Hudson
(6,677)
Summary: "This is a note to yourself, Juliet. You must keep the memories alive, because once upon a time you told a man called Edward Nancarrow that you would, and it's important to keep that promise." A...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F HUDSON LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 2
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by
Linda Holmes
(126,898)
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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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F HOLMES LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Caitlin Doughty
(35,829)
Summary: Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die?...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB 338.4 DOU LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
David Baldacci
(29,256)
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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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F BALDACCI LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 2
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by
Lauren Groff
(28,230)
Summary: Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F GROFF LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Andrew Sean Greer
(184,952)
Summary: You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F GREER LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Tommy Orange
(159,907)
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: 1 of 3
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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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by
Jennifer Egan
(83,351)
Summary: Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the...
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Call #: BK CLUB F EGAN LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Hope Jahren
(64,568)
Summary: Scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also so much more. This is...
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Call #: BK CLUB B JAHREN LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Paulo Coelho
(2,791,262)
Summary: Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different -- and far more satisfying -- than he ever imagined. Santiago's...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F COELHO LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Jean Hanff Korelitz
(100,909)
Summary: Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his...
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Call #: BK CLUB F KORELITZ LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 1
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Hope Jahren
(64,568)
Summary: Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged...
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Call #: BK CLUB B JAHREN LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Julia Phillips
(49,527)
Summary: One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the north-eastern edge of Russia, two sisters are abducted. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the...
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Call #: BK CLUB F PHILLIPS LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 2
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by
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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Call #: BK CLUB F WILKERSON LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 2
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by
Therese Fowler
(51,176)
Summary: In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who's headed to college...
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Call #: BK CLUB F FOWLER LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 2
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by
Liz Moore
Summary: In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks...
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Call #: BK CLUB F MOORE LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Susannah Cahalan
(205,553)
Summary: When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she|d gotten there. Days earlier, she had been...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB 616.832 CAH LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Lisa Genova
(40,217)
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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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F GENOVA LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Lucy Foley
(351,823)
Summary: Jess needs a fresh start. She's broke and alone, and she's just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn't sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F FOLEY LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
William Kent Krueger
(145,909)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Alka Joshi
Series:
Henna Artist - #1
(146,264)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 2
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by
Marie Benedict
(59,830)
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
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Marjorie Hart
(9,038)
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
Jodi Picoult
(340,556)
Summary: Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. White supremacist parents don't want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F PICOULT LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sue Monk Kidd
(303,582)
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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