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Senior Fiction Focus @ North Avene |
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Meets 3rd Tuesdays 10:15-12:15, February through October (no meetings in November, December, or January). While all are welcome, this event is geared towards city residents, age 55+, |
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MARCH 2019 SELECTION
by Jodi Picoult
The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis.
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PRIL 2019 SELECTION by B. A. Paris
The friends of a seemingly perfect socialite couple begin to see cracks in the facade when they realize that the husband and wife are never apart and that there are bars on one of their upstairs windows. also available as Large Print, eBook, audio CD. |
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MAY 2019 SELECTION
by Shari Lapeña
When a terrible crime committed on the night of a dinner party casts suspicion on a young couple who seemed to have it all, Detective Rasbach discovers that the panicked duo had been hiding dangerous secrets from each other for years.
also available as an eBook, Large Print, and audio CD. |
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JUNE 2019 SELECTION
by Yaa Gyasi
Two half-sisters, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in 18th-century Ghana and experience profoundly different lives and legacies throughout subsequent generations marked by wealth, slavery, war, coal mining, the Great Migration and the realities of 20th-century Harlem.
also available as Large Print, eBook, audio CD. |
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JULY 2019 SELECTION
by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
A collaboration between the 42nd President and a #1 best-selling novelist traces the baffling disappearance of the leader of the free world, in a thriller that also explores the pressures, choices and threats facing the modern presidency.
also available as Large Print and audio CD. |
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AUGUST 2019 SELECTION
by Jesmyn Ward
Living with his grandparents and toddler sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his tormented mother's addictions and his grandmother's terminal cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope.
also available in Large Print. |
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SEPTEMBER 2019 SELECTION
by Angie Thomas
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer.
Also available as an audio CD, Large Print, movie tie-in edition, "Get Lit" backpack, and DVD. |
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OCTOBER 2019 SELECTION
by Michelle Obama
An intimate and uplifting memoir by the former First Lady chronicles the experiences that have shaped her remarkable life, from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago through her setbacks and achievements in the White House.
Also available as an audio CD. |
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North Avenue Branch, Richmond Public Library
2901 North Avenue
Richmond, VA 23222
(804)646-6675
rvalibrary.org
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