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Bradley Library Book Clubs February 2020
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Between The World And Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates ~ Social Issues Book Club
The author presents a history of racial discrimination in the United States and a narrative of his own personal experiences of contemporary race relations, offering possible resolutions for the future.
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Beastly
by Alex Flinn ~ Crossover Club
Presents a modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.
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Cryptid Hunters
by Roland Smith ~ Booked for Middle School
Thirteen-year-old twins, Grace and Marty, along with their mysterious Uncle Wolfe, are dropped into the middle of the Congolese jungle in search of their missing photojournalist parents.
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I survived the Children's Blizzard, 1888
by Lauren Tarshis ~ My 1st Book Club
A high-action tale inspired by the Children's Blizzard of 1888 features an 11-year-old child who fights for survival in the face of impossible odds, in a story that also explains what made the storm so deadly, how it particularly endangered students in the one-room schoolhouses of the time and what the real survivors experienced.
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Sprinkle With Murder
by Jenn McKinlay ~ What's On the Menu
Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura are finally living out their dream as the proud owners of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery. Their first big order is a sweet deal, too - five hundred cupcakes for a fashion designer's wedding. The only sour note is the demanding bridezilla who insists on original recipes for the cupcakes. When Mel stumbles upon the bride-to-be dead by cupcake, she immediately becomes the prime suspect. To clear her and their business, the ladies must find the real murderer.
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Road to Perdition
by Max Allan Collins ~ Page to Screen
In Depression-era Chicago, the most fearsome hitman in town learns that the mob intends to kill his twelve-year-old son.
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After the Flood : a novel
by Kassandra Montag ~ Wednesday Book Club
A tale set in an anarchic near-future America of mountaintop colonies surrounded by rising oceans finds an independent woman trading for supplies and information about the daughter who was stolen from her eight years earlier.
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