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Laura Esquivel
(327,629)
Summary: "Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. A...
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Call #: BK CLUB F ESQUIVEL
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Suzanne Collins
Series:
Underland Chronicles - #1
(95,409)
Summary: When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.
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Call #: BK CLUB YA F COLLINS
Locations: Book Club Sets, YA Fiction
copies in: 16 of 16
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by
Audrey Niffenegger
(1,583,422)
Summary: A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an...
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Call #: BK CLUB F NIFFENEGGER
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Nancy Horan
(92,138)
Summary: This fictionalization of the life of Mamah Borthwick Cheney, best known as the woman who wrecked Frank Lloyd Wright's first marriage, is a portrayal of an independent, educated woman at odds with the...
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Call #: BK CLUB F HORAN
copies in: 0 of 15
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by
Diane Ackerman
(79,291)
Summary: The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most...
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Call #: BK CLUB 940.5318 ACK
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
David Rhodes
(3,643)
Summary: Words, Wisconsin, an anonymous town of only a few hundred people. But under its sleepy surface, life rages. Cora and Graham guard their dairy farm, and family, from the wicked schemes of their milk...
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Call #: BK CLUB F RHODES
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Stacey O'Brien
(9,964)
Summary: Written with the same heartwarming sentiment that made the memoir "Marley & Me" a runaway bestseller, biologist and owl expert O'Brien chronicles her rescue of an adorable, abandoned baby barn...
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Call #: 598.97 O'BR
copies in: 1 of 16
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by
Ruth Reichl
(37,640)
Summary: The editor-in-chief of "Gourmet" recounts her visits to some of the world's most acclaimed restaurants, both as herself and as an anonymous diner in disguise, to offer insight into the differences in her dining experiences.
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Call #: BK CLUB 641.5 REI
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Mark Greenside
(2,286)
Summary: Author and teacher Mark Greenside recounts his struggles to fit into the life of a small Celtic village in Brittany.
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Call #: BK CLUB 944.1 GRE
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Ann Patchett
(36,322)
Summary: Pregnant and alone, Rose seeks sanctuary at St. Elizabeth's, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, where she at last finds a place to put down the roots she has never felt she had.
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Call #: BK CLUB F PATCHETT
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 0 of 15
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by
Cami Walker
(2,955)
Summary: "At age thirty-five, Cami Walker was burdened by an intensified struggle with multiple sclerosis, a chronic neurological disease that left her debilitated and depressed. Then she received an uncommon...
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Call #: BK CLUB 155.232 WAL
copies in: 0 of 15
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by
Robin Oliveira
(22,512)
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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by
Rebecca Skloot
(595,171)
Summary: Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine....
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Call #: BK CLUB 616.027 SKL
copies in: 15 of 17
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by
Jean Kwok
(48,758)
Summary: Caught between the pressure to succeed in America, her duty to their family, and her own personal desires, Kimberly Chang, an immigrant girl from Hong Kong, learns to constantly translate not just...
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Call #: BK CLUB F KWOK
copies in: 15 of 16
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by
Agatha Christie
Series:
Hercule Poirot Series
(160,229)
Summary: "Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she...
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Call #: BK CLUB F CHRISTIE
copies in: 0 of 15
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by
Melina Marchetta
(47,338)
Summary: High school student Taylor Markham, who was abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia
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Call #: BK CLUB YA F MARCHETTA
copies in: 14 of 14
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by
Aimee Bender
(61,048)
Summary: On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. She...
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Call #: BK CLUB F BENDER
copies in: 10 of 18
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by
Lucy Grealy
(24,179)
Summary: At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly...
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Call #: BK CLUB 155.916 GRE
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Tea Obreht
(93,685)
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
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Ann Patchett
(35,540)
Summary: The author describes her twenty-year friendship with Lucy Grealy, tracing their introduction at a writer's workshop, the integral part their friendship played in their writing careers, and her witness to Grealy's medical deterioration.
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Call #: BK CLUB 155.916 PAT
copies in: 16 of 16
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by
Chad Harbach
(108,081)
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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Call #: BK CLUB F HARBACH
copies in: 15 of 15
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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: 15 of 15
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Christina Baker Kline
(377,680)
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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Call #: BK CLUB F KLINE
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 21 of 21
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Julia Glass
(10,711)
Summary: Enjoying an active but lonely rural life, seventy-year-old Percy allows a progressive preschool to move into his barn and transform his quiet home into a lively, youthful community that compels him...
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Call #: BK CLUB F GLASS
copies in: 0 of 15
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by
Maria Semple
(487,048)
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.
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Call #: BK CLUB F SEMPLE
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 16
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by
Jess Walter
(159,757)
Summary: A novel that spans fifty years. The Italian housekeeper and his long-lost American starlet; the producer who once brought them together, and his assistant. A glittering world filled with unforgettable characters.
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Call #: BK CLUB F WALTER
copies in: 0 of 17
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by
M. L Stedman
Summary: "After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day's journey from the coast. To this...
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Call #: BK CLUB F STEDMAN
copies in: 0 of 15
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by
Charlotte Brontë
Series:
Jane Eyre Series
(1,640,192)
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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by
Daniel Brown
(228,870)
Summary: "Out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times - the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class...
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Call #: 797.123 BRO
Locations: Adult Nonfiction, Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 16
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by
Kevin Kwan
Series:
Crazy Rich Asians Series - #1
(343,105)
Summary: Envisioning a summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that strongly opposes their son's relationship with an American girl.
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Call #: BK CLUB F KWAN
copies in: 0 of 23
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by
Helen Macdonald
(61,064)
Summary: "As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which...
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Call #: BK CLUB 598.944 MAC
Locations: Adult Nonfiction, Book Club Sets
copies in: 21 of 21
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Tarashea Nesbit
(6,442)
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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by
Gabrielle Zevin
(203,940)
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
copies in: 18 of 18
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by
Sue Monk Kidd
(268,501)
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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by
Phil Klay
Summary: Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes...
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Call #: BK CLUB F KLAY
copies in: 20 of 20
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by
Alan P Lightman
(31,848)
Summary: A fictional work in which a twenty-six-year-old Albert Einstein, working in a patent office in Switzerland, imagines possible worlds in which time works differently as he formulates his theory of relativity.
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Call #: BK CLUB F LIGHTMAN
copies in: 16 of 16
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Sarah Waters
(74,607)
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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