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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, January 15 at 10:15 AM.
In 1946, as England emerges from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey and his eccentric friends, who tell her about their island, the books they love, German occupation, and the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation.
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I heard the owl call my name
by Margaret Craven
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, February 19 at 10:15 AM.
With only two years to live, a young missionary is sent to an Indian village in British Columbia where he learns to face death without fear
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Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, March 19 at 10:15 AM.
On a three-day journey through the snowbound Balkan hills, Hercule Poirot must weed through an array of international suspects to find the passenger who murdered a gangster on the Orient Express
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The muralist
by Barbara A. Shapiro
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, April 16 at 10:15 AM.
Auction-house employee Danielle Abrams investigates the unsolved disappearance of her famous artist great-aunt when she discovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind Abstract Expressionist works created decades earlier. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Art Forger.
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The pilot's wife
by Anita Shreve
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, May 21 at 10:15 AM.
A pilot's wife is taught to be prepared for the late-night knock at the door. But when Kathryn Lyons receives word that a plane flown by her husband, Jack, has exploded near the coast of Ireland, she confronts the unfathomable -- one startling revelationat a time. Soon drawn into a maelstrom of publicity fueled by rumors that Jack led a secret life, Kathryn sets out to learn who her husband really was, whatever that knowledge might cost. Her search propels this taut, impassioned novel as it movingly explores the question, How well can we ever really know another person?
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Before we were yours
by Lisa Wingate
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, July 16 at 10:15 AM.
A tale inspired by firsthand accounts about the notoriously corrupt Tennessee Children's Home Society follows the efforts of a Baltimore assistant D.A. to uncover her parents' fateful secrets in the wake of a political attack and a chance encounter with a stranger.
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The Rosie project
by Graeme C Simsion
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, August 19 at 10:15 AM.
A socially awkward genetics professor who has never been on a second date sets out to find the perfect wife, but instead finds Rosie Jarman, a fiercely independent barmaid who is on a quest to find her biological father
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The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white mother
by James McBride
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, September 17 at 10:15 AM.
A young African-American man describes growing up in an all-black Brooklyn housing project, one of twelve children of a white mother and black father, and discusses his mother's contributions to his life and coming to terms with his confusion over his own identity.
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The woman in the window
by A. J. Finn
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, October 15 at 10:15 AM.
An agoraphobic recluse languishes in her New York City home, drinking wine and spying on her neighbors, before witnessing a terrible crime through her window that exposes her secrets and raises questions about her perceptions of reality.
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Little fires everywhere
by Celeste Ng
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, November 19 at 10:15 AM.
Fighting an ugly custody battle with an artistic tenant who has little regard for the strict rules of their progressive Cleveland suburb, a straitlaced family woman who is seeking to adopt a baby becomes obsessed with exposing the tenant's past, only to trigger devastating consequences for both of their families.
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Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
by Gail Honeyman
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, December 17 at 10:15 AM.
A socially awkward, routine-oriented loner teams up with a bumbling IT guy from her office to assist an elderly accident victim, forging a friendship that saves all three from lives of isolation and secret unhappiness. A first novel.
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