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New Book Club Kits
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Mother Mary Comes to Me
by Arundhati Roy
Mother Mary Comes to Me draws on multiple strands of the author's early years, unveiling an empathetic and at the same time marvelously satirical portrait of an eccentric extended family with a fondness for spectacular family feuds. Roy's maternal lineage was saddled with a legacy of violence yet blessed with the gifts of education and English fluency. 'Mrs. Roy' formed the tempestuous foundation upon which Roy and her brother, 'LKC, ' raised themselves. A single mother who suffered from debilitating asthma and thunderous moods, Mary Roy founded a coeducational school--a revolutionary act in its time--and grew it into a spectacularly influential institution. The rage and unpredictability Mrs. Roy was known for was the secret to her success in a patriarchal society unaccustomed to seeing a woman soar to great heights while rejecting cultural roles designed to clip her wings--
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Indian Country
by Shobha Rao
!!! Montana Book Award Winner 2025 !!!
A novel about an Indian couple, Janavi and Sagar, who move to Montana for an arranged marriage, only to find themselves navigating racism, isolation, and the legacy of colonialism, paralleling their experiences with historical injustices in both India and the American West, all while a murder mystery unfolds near a dam they are connected to. The title has a double meaning, referring to both India and Native American land, and the story weaves together the couple's present-day struggles with historical vignettes about colonial violence and crimes against women.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner. By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They've even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can wreak, the government bans them from Earth. Driven into hiding, unauthorized androids live among human beings, undetected. Rick Deckard, an officially sanctioned bounty hunter, is commissioned to find rogue androids and "retire" them. But when cornered, androids fight back--with lethal force.
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Piranesi
by Susanna Clarke
The award-winning, New York Times bestselling fantasy sensation that Madeline Miller called, a miraculous and luminous feat of storytelling, Piranesi is an intoxicating, hypnotic novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
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