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Bradley Library Book Clubs March 2018
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The Dry
by Jane Harper ~ Tuesday Morning Book Club
Receiving a sinister anonymous note after his best friend's suspicious death, federal agent Aaron Falk is forced to confront the fallout of a 20-year-old false alibi against a backdrop of the worst drought Melbourne has seen in a century. A first novel.
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The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
by Lilian Jackson Braun ~ What's On the Menu
The first installment of the author's series features the unusual detective team of award-winning reporter Jim Qwilleran and Koko, his brilliant Siamese cat, who penetrate the world of modern art to solve a mystery.
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Watership Down
by Richard Adams ~ Dudes & Donuts
Chronicles the adventures of a group of rabbits searching for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace
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The Zookeeper's Wife : A War Story
by Diane Ackerman ~ From Page to Screen
Documents the true story of Warsaw Zoo keepers and resistance activists Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who in the aftermath of Germany's invasion of Poland saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish citizens by smuggling them into empty cages and their home villa.
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Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline
Immersed in a mid-21st-century virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty and disease, Wade Watts joins a violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's wealthy creator, who has promised that the winner will be his heir.
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Stargirl
by Jerry Spinelli ~ Girls Rule
Although Stargirl is shunned by many at school for her unique presence, Leo Borlock, a fellow classmate, finds her inspiring and soon finds himself head-over-heels in love.
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The Drowning Spool
by Monica Ferris ~ Chatty Crafters Book Club
Craft shop owner Betsy Devonshire teaches a class on a tricky needlework technique only to become entangled in a suspicious drowning case involving the victim's three lovers
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The Kitchen House
by Kathleen Grissom ~Tuesday Morning Book Club
When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family. Orphaned while on board ship from Ireland, seven year old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family, though she is set apart from them by her white skin.
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