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#2: A book set in the Fall This year's Fall Reading Challenge has officially begun! Each week, this newsletter will take a look at one category, and offer suggestions and web links with more choices! This week, we'll start fall off with a look at books set during the fall, category #2. Fall offers a great setting for books. It encompasses the start of school, Halloween and Thanksgiving! Books for this category don't need to take place entirely during the fall. Here are a few suggestions.
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Thanksgiving Night
by Richard Bausch
Encumbered with the challenges of his bookstore and his wife's high-school teaching career, Will Butterfield fears he will soon reach the end of his patience with his wildly eccentric mother and aunt, a situation that is both lightened and complicated by new friendships with the local handyman and his own chaotic family.
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The Lay of the Land
by Richard Ford
A follow-up to The Sportswriter and Independence Day once again picks up the story of Frank Bascombe in the fall of 2000, with the results of the presidential election still hanging in the balance and Frank confronted by the perils of Thanksgiving, as he contends with health, marital, and family issues and works as a realtor at the Jersey shore.
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The art of fielding : a novel
by Chad Harbach
A baseball star at a small college near Lake Michigan launches a routine throw that goes disastrously off course and inadvertently changes the lives of five people, including the college president, a gay teammate and the president's daughter.
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A roux of revenge
by Connie Archer
When an unidentified man is murdered during the Harvest Festival, soup-shop owner Lucky must turn up the heat on the killer.
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The great alone
by Kristin Hannah
When her volatile, former POW father impulsively moves the family to mid-1970s Alaska to live off the land, young Leni and her mother are forced to confront the dangers of their lack of preparedness in the wake of a dangerous winter season.
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The cutting season : a novel
by Attica Locke
When the dead body of a young woman is found on the grounds of Belle Vie, the estate's manager, Caren Gray, launches her own investigation into Belle Vie's history, which leads her to a centuries old mystery involving the plantation's slave quarters--and her own past.
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First frost
by Sarah Addison Allen
A strange old man appears with a beat-up suitcase with stories to tell, stories that could change the lives of the Waverley women forever
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