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Bradley Library Book Clubs November 2017
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The Christmas Train
by David Baldacci ~ Tuesday Morning Book Club
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.
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The Women in the Castle
by Jessica Shattuck ~ Wednesday Book Club
At the end of World War II, Marianne von Lingenfels offers shelter to two widows of fallen resistance fighters and their children in a formerly majestic Bavarian castle that was once host to German aristocrats.
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Harvest of Murder : a Gardening Mystery
by Ann Ripley ~ Chatty Crafters Book Club
When Dr. Peter Whiting, a strange old biologist who knows a formula for doubling life expectancy, is brutally murdered, Louise Eldrige--television gardening show host, mother, and wife--attempts to uproot the killer and uncover a conspiracy.
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Dashing Through the Snow
by Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark ~ What's On the Menu
In tranquil Branscombe, New Hampshire, for the holidays, PI Regan Reilly and her NYPD husband Jack, suspense writer Nora Reilly and funeral director husband Luke and lottery winner-turned-sleuth Alvirah Meehan and her husband Willy find themselves investigating shenanigans involving the local mega lottery in the midst of preparations for a festival celebrating old-fashioned Christmas values.
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The Secret of the Old Clock
by Carolyn Keene ~ Girls Rule
The classic mystery series finds teen investigator Nancy Drew helping Mr. Crowley's friends find a missing will before the adversarial Topham family steals his inheritance.
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The Phantom Toolbooth
by Norton Juster ~ Dudes & Donuts
For Milo, everything's a bore. When a toolbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he's got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it's exciting beyond his wildest dreams.
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Wintergirls
by Laurie Halse Anderson ~ Crossover Club
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
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One for the Money
by Janet Evanovich ~ From Page to Screen
After her Miata is repossessed, Stephanie Plum turns to bounty hunting for quick cash, and her first quarry, an ex-cop accused of murder, turns out to be her first lover, with whom she still shares a powerful chemistry.
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
by N. K. Jemisin ~ Worlds Apart Fantasy Book Club
After Yeine Darr is summoned to the majestic city of Sky and named an heiress to the king of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, she is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had, drawing ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history.
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