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Books for Book Clubs November 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 follow the link and 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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A Piece of the World: A Novel
by Christina Baker Kline
Tells the story of Christina Olson, who served as the host and inspiration for artist Andrew Wyeth, despite an incapacitating illness. The author applies meticulous research to this biographical novel, and Christina's struggles give the novel a melancholy air well-matched by the painting she made famous. By the New York Times best-selling author of Orphan Train.
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Darktown: A Novel
by Thomas Mullen
Hired resentfully into the Atlanta Police Department of 1948, war veterans Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith confront deep hostility from their white peers and are significantly limited in their ability to do their jobs before confronting a corrupt officer who complicates their investigation into the murder of a black woman. Darktown is not only a gritty historical mystery that remains relevant today, it is also being developed as a TV series produced by Jamie Foxx.
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I Found You: A Novel
by Lisa Jewell
A lonely single mom who offers shelter to an amnesiac man and a young bride who is told that her missing husband never existed struggle to make sense of their transforming worlds and connection to a sister and brother whose lives were shattered by secrets more than two decades earlier. Book clubs that enjoyed Liane Moriarty's books won't want to miss out on Lisa Jewell. By the best-selling author of The Third Wife.
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Young Jane Young: A Novel
by Gabrielle Zevin
Cruelly branded for her affair with her congressman boss, an intern and blogger changes her name and moves to a remote town in Maine with her young daughter before local prompting to run for public office forces her to reckon with the past. A witty and thought-provoking story is carried by flawed but lovable characters, making for a quick read that still inspires discussion. By the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry.
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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
by Jeffrey Toobin
An account of the sensational 1974 kidnapping and trial of Patty Hearst describes the efforts of her family to secure her release, Hearst's baffling participation in a bank robbery and the psychological insights that prompted modern understandings about Stockholm syndrome. Hearst's story has fascinated true crime buffs for decades, and Toobin's dramatic exploration of her story shows why.
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Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
by Antonio J. Mendez
A dramatic account of a lesser-known aspect of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis recalls how six of the intended American hostages escaped from Iranian militants and were rescued by the co-author and his unlikely team of CIA agents and Hollywood insiders during a high-risk mission in Tehran conducted in the guise of a movie scouting expedition.
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
by Mary Roach
Book Club favorite and best-selling author and of Gulp and Stiff explores the science of keeping humans healthy and focused in the extreme environments of war, drawing on interviews with doctors, uniform designers, trainers and weapons testers to illuminate how soldiers are conditioned to survive traumas ranging from heat and panic to exhaustion and noise.
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
by Douglas J Preston
The co-author of the FBI Agent Pendergast series presents a high-suspense, action-packed account of the discovery of a lost civilization, contemporaries of the Mayans who lived deep in the Honduran jungle. Once again, truth proves itself stranger (and more exciting) than fiction.
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