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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
by Alexander McCall Smith
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at 10:15 AM.
Working in Gaborone, Botswana, sleuth Precious Ramotswe investigates several local mysteries, including a search for a missing boy and the case of the clinic doctor with different personalities for different days of the week. Originally in paperback. 25,000 first printing.
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The art forger : a novel
by Barbara A. Shapiro
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, February 20 at 10:15 AM.
An artist whose reputation has been tarnished stumbles on a piece of art that disappeared twenty-five years ago and agrees to forge it for a gallery owner, until she realizes that the art she is forging may itself be a forgery
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Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
by Fannie Flagg
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, March 20 at 10:15 AM.
Mrs. Threadgoode's tale of two high-spirited women of the 1930s, Idgie and Ruth, helps Evelyn, a 1980s woman in a sad slump of middle age, to begin to rejuvenate her own life. By the author of Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! Reprint.
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The shack : where tragedy confronts eternity
by William P Young
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, April 17 at 10:15 AM.
Four years after his daughter is abducted and evidence of her murder is found in an abandoned shack, Mackenzie Allen Philips returns to the shack in response to a note claiming to be from God, and has a life-changing experience
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A piece of the world : a novel
by Christina Baker Kline
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, May 15 at 10:15 AM.
Tells the story of Christina Olson, who served as the host and inspiration for artist Andrew Wyeth, despite an incapacitating illness. By the New York Times best-selling author of Orphan Train. 350,000 first printing.
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How green was my valley
by Richard Llewellyn
We will discuss this year's classic on Tuesday, June 19 at 10:15 AM.
The youngest son of a Welsh coal-mining family recalls the tender and tragic experiences of his youth at the turn of the century with his courageous and loving parents and brothers and sisters
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One thousand white women : the journals of May Dodd
by Jim Fergus
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, July 17 at 10:15 AM.
A portrait of the American West follows May Dodd as she leaves the East Coast asylum to which she had been committed by her high-society family, heads west, and ends up marrying a chief of the Cheyenne nation
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A gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, September 18 at 10:15 AM.
Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he endures life in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold. By the best-selling author of Rules of Civility.
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Miss Julia speaks her mind
by Ann B. Ross
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, October 16 at 10:15 AM.
Recently widowed and newly wealthy, Miss Julia is visited one day by Hazel Marie, who claims that her nine-year-old son is the child of Julia's late husband, and when Julia is left to care for the child, she reveals the scandal that precipitated her husband's death
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Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI
by David Grann
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, November 20 at 10:15 AM.
The best-selling author of The Lost City of Z presents a true account of the early 20th-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
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The little Paris bookshop
by Nina George
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, December 18 at 10:15 AM.
Prescribing books that offer therapeutic benefits to his customers, a literary apothecary in a floating bookstore on the Seine struggles with private heartbreak before embarking on a journey of healing at the side of a blocked writer and a lovelorn chef
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