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Books for Book Clubs May 2017
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Did you know? The High Plains Library District offers many services to support you and your book club! Book Club Bags: Each book club bag includes 12 copies of the book and a discussion guide, and best of all it comes with a 6-week checkout period! Book-a-Librarian for Book Clubs: Set up a face-to-face appointment for your book club with a librarian. From tips on running a successful discussion to presentations on hot new books, we're here to help! Just select "reading advice" from the list of options. Personalized Reading Lists: If you'd like the personalized help from a librarian without the face-to-face meeting, this is the option for you! Simply fill out the survey, letting us know about the books your group loved (and loved to hate), and we'll send you a list of suggestions picked just for you! Books for Book Clubs Newsletter: Subscribe to this newsletter for monthly picks that are great for discussion, as well as notification of upcoming events and programs suited for book clubs.
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The Boleyn King: A Novel
by Laura Andersen
Laura Anderson's debut novel, the first of a trilogy, presents an alternate history in which Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII had a healthy son who lived. Struggling to prove himself as the French threaten battle and the Catholics plot at home, 17-year-old King Henry IX, known as William, relies on his best friend and loyal counselor, Dominic, until they both fall in love with the same woman--a romantic obsession that threatens a new generation of Tudors. A good match for book clubs that have enjoyed Philippa Gregory.
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The Last Days of Night: A Novel
by Graham Moore
When electric light innovator Thomas Edison sues his only remaining rival for patent infringement, George Westinghouse hires untested Columbia Law School graduate Paul Ravath for a case fraught with lies, betrayals and deception. Told with the intensity of a legal thriller and filled with intriguing characters and events from history, The Last Days of Night has something for every reader. By the best-selling author of The Sherlockian.
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The Story of Land and Sea: A Novel
by Katy Simpson Smith
A sweeping generational story, set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolution, follows fathers and daughters, mother and son, and master and slave as they search for redemption during a time of war, servitude and love. The tone of this family saga is largely quiet and sad, with a deceptively simple writing style, but readers will ultimately leave the book with a feeling of hope.
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The One-Way Bridge: A Novel
by Cathie Pelletier
The One-Way Bridge offers a much lighter, quirkier option for book groups looking for laughs. Neighbors in the fictional small town of Mattagash, Maine, quibble over trivialities in public but privately struggle with issues ranging from scandal and failed ambitions to war flashbacks and marriage troubles. An often farcical look into small-town life that also reminds us that there are two sides to every story.
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Full Body Burden: Growing up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
by Kristen Iversen
A narrative report by a woman who grew up near the Rocky Flats nuclear weapon facility describes the dark secrets that dominated her childhood, the strange cancers that afflicted her neighbors, her brief employment at Rocky Flats and the efforts of residents to achieve legal justice. A fascinating, sometimes disturbing, combination of intensive research and personal memoir.
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