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JANUARY 2020 SELECTION
meeting date:  January 14th
 
An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good

by Helene Tursten

 Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg rent-free, thanks to a minor clause in a hastily negotiated contract.  Now in her late eighties, Maud contents herself with traveling the world and surfing the net from the comfort of her father's ancient armchair. She also has ... ways ... of dealing with people who are, well, up to no good.
 
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FEBRUARY 2020 SELECTION
meeting date:  February 11th
 
The Radium Girls : the Dark Story of America's Shining Women

by Kate Moore

Recounts struggles of hundreds of women who were exposed to dangerous levels of radium while working factory jobs during World War I and describes how they were mislead by their employers and became embroiled in a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights.
 
MARCH 2020 SELECTION
meeting date:  March 10th
 
The Turn of the Key

by Ruth Ware

When a high-paying nanny job at a luxurious Scottish Highlands home culminates in her imprisonment for a child’s murder, a young woman struggles to untangle what really happened.
 
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APRIL 2020 SELECTION
meeting date:  April 14th 
 
How to Stop Time

by Matt Haig

A man with a secret rare condition that has enabled him to survive for centuries moves to London to become a high-school history teacher and considers defying his protective guardians' rule against falling in love when he becomes entranced by a captivating colleague. 
 
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MAY 2020 SELECTION
meeting date:  May 12th

Playing in the Light

by Zoe Wicomb

Running a 1990s Cape Town travel agency in spite of her private hatred of traveling, Marion shares a complex relationship with an African employee and eschews national politics, until the exposures of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission reveal dark family secrets.
JUNE 2020 SELECTION
meeting date:  June 9th
 
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

by Aimee Bender

Discovering in childhood a supernatural ability to taste the emotions of others in their cooking, Rose Edelstein grows up to regard food as a curse when it reveals everyone's secret realities. 
 
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JULY 2020 SELECTION
meeting date:  July 14th
 
Orphan Train

by Christina Baker Kline

Molly is a rebellious 17-year-old foster child sentenced to community service for stealing a copy of Jane Eyre. She finds a position cleaning out the attic of Vivian, an elderly woman in their coastal Maine town. As Molly sorts through old trunks and boxes, Vivian begins to share stories from her past.
 
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