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Bradley Library Book Clubs July 2018
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The Magdalen Girls
by V. S. Alexander ~ Wednesday Book Club
Sixteen-year-old Teagan Tiernan's family sends her to one of 1962 Dublin's Magdalen Laundries—grim workhouses where the cities unwed mothers, prostitutes, petty criminals and other "fallen" women are sent—when her beauty provokes a lustful revelation from a young priest.
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Brownies and Broomsticks
by Bailey Cates ~ Chatty Crafters Book Club
While working at her Aunt Lucy and Uncle Ben's Honeybee Bakery in downtown Savannah, Katie Lightfoot discovers that her aunt is a witch and her recipes are actually spells, which comes in handy when Uncle Ben is accused of murdering a curmudgeonly customer and they need to clear his name.
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Ghost at Work : a Bailey Ruth Mystery
by Carolyn G. Hart ~ What's On the Menu
When the pastor's wife discovers a murdered body on her porch, ghost sleuth Bailey Ruth Raeburn applies her beyond-the-grave talents for solving puzzles to keep suspicion from falling on the innocent pastor.
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The Raven Boys
by Maggie Stiefvater ~ Crossover Club
Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own--and that together their talents are a dangerous mix.
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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini ~ From Page to Screen
Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son, in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
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