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What Book Clubs are reading this month!
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by Bill Bryson Discussion July 17th The author takes readers on a tour of the land Down Under that goes far beyond packaged-tour routes.
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Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
In an attempt to understand the lives of Americans earning near-minimum wages, Ehrenreich works as a waitress in Florida, a cleaning woman in Maine, and a sales clerk in Minnesota
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Ida Tarbell : portrait of a muckraker
by Kathleen Brady
Profiles one of America's foremost investigative journalists, whose biographies, profiles of public figures, and investigative articles, and especially for her 1902 expose of Standard Oil, challenged the powerful and stirred official and public opinion
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The frozen river : a novel
by Ariel Lawhon
In 1789 Maine, midwife and healer Martha Ballard, who is good at keeping secrets, investigates a shocking murder linked to an alleged rape that has shaken her small town, especially when her diary lands at the center of the scandal, threatening to tear both her family and her community apart.
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Hello beautiful : a novel
by Ann Napolitano
Awarded a college basketball scholarship away from his childhood home silenced by tragedy, a young man befriends a spirited young woman who welcomes him into her loving, loud, chaotic household, in the new novel by the author of Dear Edward.
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The Island of sea women : a novel
by Lisa See
The ostracized daughter of a Japanese collaborator and the daughter of their Korean village's head female diver share nearly a century of friendship that is tested by their island's torn position between two warring empires. 200,000 first printing.
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The kitchen house
by Kathleen Grissom
Working as an indentured servant alongside slaves on a tobacco plantation, Lavinia, a 7-year-old Irish orphan with no memory of her past, finds her light skin and situation placing her between two very different worlds that test her loyalties. A first novel. Original.
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Lessons in chemistry : a novel
by Bonnie Garmus
In the early 1960s, chemist and single mother Elizabeth Zott, the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show due to her revolutionary skills in the kitchen, uses this opportunity to dare women to change the status quo.
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The lost bookshop
by Evie Woods
"For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world of wonder... where nothing is as it seems"
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Remarkably bright creatures : a novel
by Shelby Van Pelt
A widow forges an unlikely friendship with a curmudgeonly giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium and, when a mysterious grifter comes to town, the truths all three unlock about her son's disappearance 30 years ago.
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The violin conspiracy
by Brendan Slocumb
When, right before the cutthroat Tchaikovsky Competition--the Olympics of classical music, his priceless Stradivarius is stolen, with a ransom note for five million dollars in its place, Ray McMillian must piece together the clues to reclaim the violin before it's too late
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West with giraffes : a novel
by Lynda Rutledge
Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, recalls his journey to deliver South California's first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo in 1938
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All the colors of the dark : a novel
by Chris Whitaker
Read with Jenna
After a string of disappearances in 1975 Missouri, a one-eyed boy heroically thwarts a kidnapping, igniting a chain of events that blur the lines between triumph and tragedy as the townspeople of Monta Clare confront hidden truths.
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The cliffs
by J. Courtney Sullivan
Reese's Book Club
A Harvard archivist, returning to Maine after a terrible mistake, Jane is hired to research the history of a Victorian house and the women who lived there, uncovering a story of lost lovers, romantic longing, shattering loss and the long shadow of colonialism that is even older than Maine itself.
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The love of my afterlife
by Kirsty Greenwood
GMA Book Club
Meeting “the one” in the afterlife waiting room, who's sent back to earth due to an error, Delphie, offered a second chance at life and love if she can find this dreamy stranger on earth in ten days, must listen to her heart to make her greatest wish come true. Original.
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Familiaris
by David Wroblewski
Oprah's Book Club
It is spring 1919, and John Sawtelle's imagination has gotten him into trouble, again. Now John and his newlywed wife, Mary, along with their two best friends and their three dogs, are setting off for Wisconsin's Northwoods, where they hope to make a fresh start, and, with a little luck, discover what it takes to live a life of meaning, purpose and adventure. But the place they are headed for is far stranger and more perilous than they realize, and it will take all their ingenuity, along with a few new friends, to realize their dreams.
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Swift River
by Essie Chambers
Read with Jenna
In 1987, the only Black person in all Swift River after her Pop disappeared seven years ago, Diamond Newberry, receiving a letter from a relative she's never met, is introduced to two generations of African American Newberry women, gaining a sense of her place in the world and in her family.
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Malas
by Marcela Fuentes
GMA Book Club
When her beloved grandmother passes away, 14-year-old Lulu is drawn to the glamorous stranger who crashed the funeral and their unexpected kinship picks at the secrets of Lulu's family and a curse that reverberates across generation as one woman must make peace with the past and one girl must embrace her future.
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The unwedding
by Allyson Braithwaite Condie
Reese's Book Club
Recent divorcee Ellery Wainwright, while staying at the luxurious Resort at Broken Point in Big Sur, finding the place beautiful, yet unsettling, especially when a mudslide traps her and the other guests with a murderer who has something horrific in store for them all.
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Long Island : a novel
by Colm Tâoibâin
Oprah's Book Club
In 1976 Lindenhurst, Long Island, Ellis Lacey, an Irishwoman in her 40s with no one to rely on in this still-new country, discovers her husband got a woman pregnant and the woman's husband refuses to raise it, forcing Ellis to decide what she will do and not do in this unexpected situation.
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