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  • The Paris apartment : a novel

    The Paris apartment : a novel2023

    by Lucy Foley

    (351,310)

    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...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: BK CLUB F FOLEY

    Location: Book Club Sets

    copies in: 0 of 18 details

  • The plot

    The plot2022

    by Jean Hanff Korelitz

    (98,887)

    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...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: BK CLUB F KORELITZ

    Location: Book Club Sets

    copies in: 0 of 18 details

  • The Paris apartment [large print] : a novel

    The Paris apartment : a novel2022

    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...  more »

    LARGE PRINT

    Call #: BK CLUB F FOLEY LP

    Location: Book Club Sets

    copies in: 1 of 2 details

  • The plot [large print]

    The plot2021

    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...  more »

    LARGE PRINT

    Call #: BK CLUB F KORELITZ LP

    Location: Book Club Sets

    copies in: 0 of 1 details

  • Long bright river

    Long bright river2020

    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...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: BK CLUB F MOORE

    Location: Book Club Sets

    copies in: 0 of 18 details

  • Long bright river [large print]

    Long bright river2020

    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...  more »

    LARGE PRINT

    Call #: BK CLUB F MOORE LP

    Location: Book Club Sets

    copies in: 0 of 1 details

  • Conviction
    Staff Pick

    Conviction2020

    by Denise Mina

    (44,390)

    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...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: BK CLUB F MINA

    Location: Book Club Sets

    copies in: 3 of 18 details

  • Disappearing Earth

    Disappearing Earth2020

    by Julia Phillips

    (49,835)

    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...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: BK CLUB F PHILLIPS

    Location: Book Club Sets

    copies in: 8 of 18 details

  • Disappearing Earth [large print] : a novel

    Disappearing Earth : a novel2019

    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...  more »

    LARGE PRINT

    Call #: BK CLUB F PHILLIPS LP

    Location: Book Club Sets

    copies in: 1 of 2 details

  • My sister, the serial killer [large print]

    My sister, the serial killer2019

    by Oyinkan Braithwaite

    (260,965)

    Summary: "Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you...  more »

    LARGE PRINT

    Call #: BK CLUB F BRAITHWAITE LP

    Location: Book Club Sets

    copies in: 0 of 2 details

  • My sister, the serial killer : a novel

    My sister, the serial killer : a novel2019

    by Oyinkan Braithwaite

    (260,373)

    Summary: "Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: BK CLUB F BRAITHWAITE

    Location: Book Club Sets

    copies in: 2 of 18 details

  • Manhattan Beach : a novel

    Manhattan Beach : a novel2018

    by Jennifer Egan

    (83,481)

    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,...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: BK CLUB F EGAN

    Location: Book Club Sets

    copies in: 6 of 18 details

  • Manhattan Beach [large print]

    Manhattan Beach2018

    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...  more »

    LARGE PRINT

    Call #: BK CLUB F EGAN LP

    Location: Book Club Sets

    copies in: 2 of 2 details

  • Then she was gone : a novel

    Then she was gone : a novel2018

    by Lisa Jewell

    (488,866)

    Summary: Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenaged golden couple. She was days...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: BK CLUB F JEWELL

    Location: Book Club Sets

    copies in: 17 of 17 details

  • Then she was gone [large print] : a novel

    Then she was gone : a novel2018

    by Lisa Jewell

    (857)

    Summary: Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenaged golden couple. She was days...  more »

    LARGE PRINT

    Call #: BK CLUB F JEWELL LP

    Location: Book Club Sets

    copies in: 2 of 2 details

  • Station eleven : a novel

    Station eleven : a novel2015

    by Emily St. John Mandel

    Summary: One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack on-stage during a production. Jeevan Chaudhary, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde...  more »

    Note: The Lunchtime Lit book club will be discussing this title on 12/21/23. Please ask for a copy at the Circulation desk.

    BOOK

    Call #: BK CLUB F MANDEL

    Location: Book Club Sets

    copies in: 2 of 18 details

  • Station eleven [large print]

    Station eleven2015

    by Emily St. John Mandel

    Summary: One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack on-stage during a production. Jeevan Chaudhary, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde...  more »

    Note: The Lunchtime Lit book club will be discussing this title on 12/21/23. Please ask for a copy at the circulation desk.

    LARGE PRINT

    Call #: BK CLUB F MANDEL LP

    Location: Book Club Sets

    copies in: 1 of 2 details

  • The girl with all the gifts

    The girl with all the gifts2015

    by Mike Carey

    (216,114)

    Summary: Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be taken to class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: BK CLUB F CAREY

    Location: Book Club Sets

    copies in: 15 of 15 details

  • Everything I never told you

    Everything I never told you2015

    by Celeste Ng

    (501,155)

    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...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: BK CLUB F NG

    Location: Book Club Sets

    copies in: 17 of 17 details

  • Everything I never told you [large print]

    Everything I never told you2014

    by Celeste Ng

    (497,550)

    Summary: Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, Chinese-Americans living in small-town Ohio in the 1970s. Lydia's parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to...  more »

    LARGE PRINT

    Call #: BK CLUB F NG LP

    Location: Book Club Sets

    copies in: 2 of 2 details

  • A land more kind than home : a novel

    A land more kind than home : a novel2013

    by Wiley Cash

    (26,429)

    Summary: Growing up in a small North Carolina town, Jess Halle is plunged into an adulthood for which he is not prepared when his autistic older brother, Stump, sneaks a look at something he is not supposed to see, which has catastrophic repercussions.

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    Call #: BK CLUB F CASH

    Location: Book Club Sets

    copies in: 18 of 18 details

  • The Queen's gambit

    The Queen's gambit2003

    by 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...  more »

    BOOK

    Call #: BK CLUB F TEVIS

    Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction

    copies in: 19 of 19 details