|
Cafe Parlez Fiction Bookgroup 2019 List: Just One Word
|
|
|
|
|
Celine : a novel
by Peter Heller
We will discuss this book on Thursday, January 31 at 6:30 PM
. Establishing an excellent record as a missing-persons tracker who specializes in reuniting families to make amends for a loss in her own past, Celine searches for a presumed-dead photographer in Yellowstone only to be targeted by a shadowy figure who would keep the case unsolved. By the best-selling author of The Dog Stars.
|
|
|
Faith : a novel
by Jennifer Haigh
We will discuss this book on Thursday, February 28 at 6:30 PM.
When her older brother Art--the popular, dynamic pastor of a large suburban parish--finds himself at the center of the scandal, Sheila McGann, estranged from her family for years, returns to Boston, ready to fight for him and his reputation--until she discovers the truth.
|
|
|
Away : a novel
by Amy Bloom
We will discuss this book on Thursday, March 28 at 6:30 PM.
Arriving in America alone after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian Leyb receives word that her daughter Sophie might still be alive and embarks on a risky odyssey that takes her from New York's Lower East Side to Seattle's Jazz District, Alaska, and along the Telegraph Trail toward Siberia to find the missing girl. By the author of Come to Me.
|
|
|
Idaho : a novel
by Emily Ruskovich
We will discuss this book on Thursday, April 25 at 6:30 PM.
A tale told from multiple perspectives traces the complicated relationship between Ann and Wade on a rugged landscape and how they came together in the aftermath of his first wife's imprisonment for a violent murder.
|
|
|
Vox
by Christina Dalcher
We will discuss this book on Thursday, May 30 at 6:30 PM.
Marginalized in a near-future America where the government limits women to no more than 100 spoken words daily before outlawing women's education and employment altogether, a former doctor resolves to be heard for the sake of her daughter.
|
|
|
Rooms
by Lauren Oliver
We will discuss this book on Thursday, June 27 at 6:30 PM.
After Richard Walker dies, leaving behind a vast country estate, his estranged family arrives for their inheritance, while long-dead former residents bound to the house observe the family and reminisce about their past lives--until both the human and spirit worlds collide.
|
|
|
Faithful
by Alice Hoffman
We will discuss this book on Thursday, July 25 at 6:30 PM.
Overwhelmed by guilt when she walks away from an accident that destroys her best friend's future, Shelby connects with a circle of lost and found souls, including a guardian angel, to fight her way back to her own future. By the best-selling author of The Marriage of Opposites.
|
|
|
Mudbound : a novel
by Hillary Jordan
We will discuss this book on Thursday, August 29 at 6:30 PM.
In 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississipi Delta
|
|
|
Astray
by Emma Donoghue
We will discuss this book on Thursday, September 26 at 6:30 PM.
The author of Room presents a new collection of short stories featuring a cross-section of society including runaways, drifters, gold miners, counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey to antebellum Louisiana.
|
|
|
Melmoth : a novel
by Sarah Perry
We will discuss this book on Thursday, October 31 at 6:30 PM.
A follow-up to The Essex Serpent finds Helen, an English translator working in Prague, disregarding an obscure local monster legend before a friend's disappearance reveals that Helen is being watched.
|
|
|
Indignation
by Philip Roth
We will discuss this book on MONDAY, November 25 at 6:30 PM.
In 1951 America, during the Korean War, Marcus Messner, a studious young man from Newark, New Jersey, escapes his father's fears about the potential dangers facing his son by attending college at Ohio's pastoral, conservative Winesburg College, where he confronts the confusing customs and constrictions of a different world.
|
|
|
Smile
by Roddy Doyle
We will discuss this book on Thursday, December 26 at 4:30 PM.
Approached by a man he does not remember who claims they attended secondary school together, a man on his own for the first time in years reluctantly reflects on unhappy memories from the past, including those of a brutal teacher who left him traumatized and struggling to hold fast to his sanity. By the award-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
|
|
|
Joseph H. Plumb Memorial Library 17 Constitution Way Rochester, Massachusetts 02770 (508)763-8600www.plumblibrary.com/ |
|
|
|