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Book Pot Luck February 3, 2018
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The red collar by Jean-Christophe RufinIn 1919, in a small town in the province of Berry, France, under the crushing heat of summer heat wave, a war hero is being held prisoner in an abandoned barracks. In front of the door to his prison, a mangy dog barks night and day. Miles from where he is being held, in the French countryside, a young extraordinarily intelligent woman works the land the land, waiting and hoping. A judge whose principles have been sorely shaken by the war is traveling to an unknown location to sort out certain affairs of which it is better not to speak. Three characters. In their midst, a dog who holds the key both to their destinies and to this intriguing plot. (DH)
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The almost sisters
by Joshilyn Jackson
Swept off her feet by a costumed man at a comics convention, a graphic novelist discovers that she is pregnant with a biracial child and avoids telling her conventional Southern family while assisting her elderly grandmother, who has been hiding a dangerous secret linked to the Civil War. (MH)
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This is how it always is
by Laurie Frankel
A family reshapes their ideas about family, love and loyalty when youngest son Claude reveals increasingly determined preferences for girls' clothing and accessories and refuses to stay silent. (KH)
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Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
In early 1900s Korea, prized daughter Sunja finds herself pregnant and alone, bringing shame on her family until a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan, in the saga of one family bound together as their faith and identity are called into question. (LR)
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The sisters
by Nancy Jensen
Growing up motherless and under the thumb of a cruel stepfather in 1920s Kentucky, Bertie Fisher and her older sister Mabel are torn apart by a painful misunderstanding that reverberates through the lives of their daughters and granddaughters. (AL)
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We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
by Dennis E. Taylor
Bob has just signed the agreement to have his body put in cryostasis when he is 'killed" in a car accident. When he "awakes", he finds he is part of a computer that will be sent out to the universe to discover new planets. Which is good, because Earth is about to destroy itself! (BS)
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Gone without a trace
by Mary Torjussen
When her longtime boyfriend and every record of his existence go abruptly missing, Hannah becomes increasingly determined to find him and get answers as she is thrust into a maze of madness and obsession. (JF)
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Call Me Madame Alice
by K. W. Garlick
Set in the bustle of Gilded Age New York, the slow grim shipyards of post-Industrial England, and the deceitful calm of Narragansett Bay, Call Me Madame Alice is a sprawling tale spanning many decades in the lives of its characters. (SB)
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Radio free Vermont : a fable of resistance
by Bill McKibben
Broadcasting from a secret location with the help of a young computer prodigy, a septuagenarian radical and fugitive from the law leads an eccentric group of activists who carry out their own version of guerilla warfare when they decide that their home state might be better off seceding from the United States. (KC)
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The Chilbury Ladies' Choir : a novel
by Jennifer Ryan
Letters and journals reveal the struggles, affairs, deceptions and triumphs of five members of a village choir during World War II as they band together to survive the upheavals of war and village intrigue on the English home front. A first novel. (MC)
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Yesterday
by Felicia Yap
A tale set in a stratified world where classes are divided by their members' ability to recall one or two days of memory follows a rare mixed marriage that is shattered by the secrets and murder of the husband's mistress, a situation that is further complicated by the perpetually erased memories of both investigator and suspect. (MH)
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New York 2140
by Kim Stanley Robinson
When a New York City of the near future is submerged by rising waters, the residents rapidly adapt the thriving metropolis until it becomes a vibrant, though permanently changed, canal region of island skyscrapers and remarkable inhabitants. (LR)
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Lilac girls : a novel
by Martha Hall Kelly
The lives of three women converge at the Ravensbrück concentration camp as one resolves to help from her post at the French consulate, one becomes a courier in the Polish resistance, and one takes a German government medical position. (JF)
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11/22/63 : a novel
by Stephen King
Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must reacclimate to 1960s culture and befriend troubled loner Lee Harvey Oswald. (SB)
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The fifth petal : a novel
by Brunonia Barry
The best-selling author of The Lace Reader returns to otherworldly Salem as chief of police John Rafferty, now married to lace reader Towner Whitney, investigates a 25-year-old triple homicide involving three descendants of Salem Witch Trial victims. (SB)
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If the creek don't rise : a novel
by Leah Weiss
One of innumerable women in a North Carolina mountain town facing a bleak future with a dangerous alcoholic husband, Sadie considers a different life when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off-kilter for the entire community. (MH)
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Do no harm : stories of life, death, and brain surgery
by Henry Marsh
Offering a rare glimpse into the life and work of a modern neurosurgeon, an international best-seller provides unforgettable insight into the countless human dramas that take place in a busy modern hospital and the agonizing decisions that must be made, often in the face of great urgency and uncertainty. (MS)
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Ghost of the innocent man : a true story of trial and redemption
by Benjamin Rachlin
The true story of a man who was wrongly convicted of rape and sent to prison for life, who worked tirelessly for 24 years to prove his innocence and finally founded North Carolina’s Innocence Inquiry Commission to help others in similar predicaments. (MH)
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