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Chad Harbach
(110,126)
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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Denise Mina
(33,136)
Summary: A breathtaking thriller about a wealthy housewife who successfully conceals her dark past until a true-crime podcast and a photo posted on social media send her running across Europe, with a faded...
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Note: The Lunchtime Lit Book Club is meeting to discuss this book on 05/20/2021. Ask for a copy at the Circulation Desk.
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Call #: BK CLUB F MINA
copies in: 16 of 18
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by
Alan P Lightman
(32,598)
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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Gail Honeyman
(792,619)
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
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 22
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Gail Honeyman
(790,888)
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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Gail Honeyman
(811,906)
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 LP
copies in: 0 of 3
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by
Celeste Ng
(374,152)
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
copies in: 0 of 18
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by
Lisa Gardner
Series:
D. D. Warren Series - #8
(42,102)
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
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
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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by
Tana French
Series:
Dublin Murder Squad Novels - #1
(325,787)
Summary: Detective Rob Ryan and his partner, Cassie Maddox, investigate the murder of a 12-year-old girl near a Dublin suburb. The case resonates with similarities to a murder committed twenty years before that involved two children and the young Ryan.
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Call #: BK CLUB F FRENCH
copies in: 15 of 15
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by
Marilynne Robinson
Series:
Gilead Series - #2021
(28,075)
Summary: Abandoning her homeless existence to become a minister's wife, Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband's gentle Christian worldview.
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Call #: BK CLUB F ROBINSON
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 20 of 20
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Fredrik Backman
(628,872)
Summary: Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse....
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Call #: BK CLUB F BACKMAN
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 20 of 20
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Fredrik Backman
(621,152)
Summary: Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse....
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Call #: LP F BACKMAN
copies in: 3 of 3
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by
Aimee Bender
(62,020)
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: 18 of 18
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by
Walter S. Tevis
(40,372)
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 #: F TEVIS
Locations: Book Club Sets, New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 20
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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
Ruth L Ozeki
(83,021)
Summary: In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her...
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Call #: BK CLUB F OZEKI
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