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Here are some of the books we discussed in our last meeting:
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Brain on fire [sound recording] : my month of madness
by Susannah Cahalan
A dramatic account of a young New York Post reporter's struggle with a rare brain-attacking autoimmune disease traces how she woke up in a hospital room under guard with no memory of baffling psychotic symptoms, describing the last-minute intervention by a brilliant doctor who identifies the source of her illness. Simultaneous.
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A well-behaved woman : a novel of the Vanderbilts
by Therese Fowler
Marrying into the newly rich but socially scorned Vanderbilt clan, a formerly impoverished Alva navigates society snubs and dark undercurrents in the lives of her in-laws and friends while testing the limits of her ambitious rule-breaking. By the New York Times best-selling author of Z
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Souvenir : a novel
by Therese Fowler
Seventeen years after entering into a marriage agreement on her family's behalf, Meg Powell is reunited with her first love, Carson McCay, now a successful musician, a situation that complicates her attempts to repair her strained relationship with her rebellious daughter, Savannah. A first novel. 100,000 first printing.
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Z : a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
by Therese Fowler
A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her father's opposition and her abandonment of the provincial finery of her upbringing in favor of a scandalous flapper identity that gains her entry into the literary party scenes of New York, Paris and the French Riviera. 150,000 first printing.
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The wisdom of Sally Red Shoes : a novel
by Ruth Hogan
A once-rebellious woman stymied by loss unexpectedly bonds with an outspoken homeless person who helps her envision a new start before their efforts are complicated by elements from the past. By the best-selling author of The Keeper of Lost Things
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Go set a watchman
by Harper Lee
A highly anticipated release of a newly discovered early work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of To Kill a Mockingbird continues the stories of iconic characters 20 years later during turbulent 1950s America. 2 million first printing.
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The butterfly's daughter
by Mary Alice Monroe
The best-selling author of Time Is a River follows the transformational stories of four women inspired by the annual migration of monarch butterflies, including Luz, who returns to her late grandmother's Mexican village and unexpectedly encounters the mother she had believed dead. 100,000 first printing.
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The color purple
by Alice Walker
The lives of two sisters--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a southern woman married to a man she hates--are revealed in a series of letters exchanged over thirty years
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