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A Moveable Feast : The Restored Edition
by Ernest Hemingway
A restored edition of the posthumously published book draws on Hemingway's personal papers, features sketches of Paris with his son and first wife, and includes portraits of such contemporaries as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Maddox Ford.
Constant Readers will be discussing this book on January 7, 2016.
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China Dolls : a Novel
by Lisa See
Overcoming respective pasts to audition for showgirl roles at an exclusive San Francisco nightclub, three Asian-American girls rely on each other for survival until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor causes one of them to be betrayed and sent to an internment camp.
Constant Readers will be discussing this book on February 4, 2016..
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Some Luck
by Jane Smiley
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres follows the triumphs and tragedies of a farm family from post-World War I America through the early 1950s. Reading group guide.
Constant Readers will be discussing this book on March 3, 2016..
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Stardust
by Neil Gaiman
Living in a Victorian countryside town overshadowed by an imposing stone barrier, Tristran is compelled to retrieve a fallen star for the woman he loves and crosses to the wondrous other side of the barrier, where he encounters dangerous rivals for the star.
Constant Readers will be discussing this book on April 7, 2016.
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A Star for Mrs. Blake
by April Smith
Meeting for the first time for a shared pilgrimage to France to visit the graves of their World War I soldier sons, an Irish maid, a chicken farmer's wife, a Boston socialite, a former tennis star and a librarian meet a brutally scarred journalist before confronting a shocking secret set against a lesser-known historical event. By the author of the FBI Special Agent Ana Grey series.
Constant Readers will be discussing this book on May 5, 2016.
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The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
by Edward Kelsey Moore
Forging a friendship at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Odette, Clarice and Barbara Jean meet regularly at the first diner owned by black proprietors in their Indiana city and are watched throughout the years by a big-hearted man who observes their struggles with school, marriage, parenthood and beyond.
Constant Readers will be discussing this book on June 2, 2016.
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Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline
Immersing himself in a mid-21st-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's super-wealthy creator, who has promised that the winner will be his heir.
Constant Readers will be discussing this book on July 7, 2016.
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Whistling Season
by Ivan Doig
Hired as a housekeeper to work on the early 1900s Montana homestead of widower Oliver Milliron, the irreverent and perpetually whistling Rose and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris, endeavor to educate the widower's reluctant sons while witnessing local efforts on a massive irrigation project.
Constant Readers will be discussing this book on August 4, 2016.
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Native Son
by Richard Wright
Native Son is a novel by American author Richard Wright. The novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black American youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s. It traces the fall of a young black man in Chicago after he kills a white woman.
Constant Readers will be discussing this book on September 1, 2016.
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Farewell Summer
by Ray Bradbury
Celebrating the final days of summer, thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding and his friends declare war on the stuffy older set of their community who would put an end to their wild ways, an effort in which the boys plot to stop the courthouse building clock as a means of staying young foreever in the long-awaited sequel to Dandelion Wine.
Constant Readers will be discussing this book on October 6, 2016.
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Under the Wide and Starry Sky : A Novel
by Nancy Horan
Under the Wide and Starry Sky chronicles the unconventional love affair of Scottish literary giant Robert Louis Stevenson, author of classics including Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and American divorcee Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne. They meet in rural France in 1875, when Fanny, having run away from her philandering husband back in California, takes refuge there with her children. Stevenson too is escaping from his life, running from family pressure to become a lawyer. And so begins a turbulent love affair that will last two decades and span the world.
Constant Readers will be discussing this book on November 3, 2016.
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Christmas Train
by David Baldacci
Banned from flying after an altercation with airport security, cash-strapped journalist Tom Langdon is forced to take the train to Los Angeles to spend Christmas with his girlfriend, financing the trip by selling a story about a train ride taken during the holiday season.
Constant Readers will be discussing this book on December 1, 2016.
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