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Cafe Parlez 2020 Books about Books for People Who Like Books
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People of the book : a novel
by Geraldine Brooks
We will discuss this book on Thursday, January 30.
Offered a coveted job to analyze and conserve a priceless Sarajevo Haggadah, Australian rare-book expert Hanna Heath discovers a series of tiny artifacts in the volume's ancient binding that reveal its historically significant origins. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March.
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The library of lost and found
by Phaedra Patrick
We will discuss this book on Thursday, February 27.
A shy librarian whose kind heart is often exploited receives a mysterious book of fairy tales from the beloved grandmother she believed dead and embarks on a perspective-changing journey of astonishing family secrets
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore
by Robin Sloan
we will discuss this book on Thursday, March 26.
After a layoff during the Great Recession sidelines his tech career, Clay Jannon takes a job at the titular bookstore in San Francisco, and soon realizes that the establishment is a facade for a strange secret.
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The last bookaneer
by Matthew Pearl
We will discuss this book on Thursday, April 30.
A tale inspired by the century-long legal loophole that allowed books to be published without the permission or compensation of authors traces the battle over a dying Robert Louis Stevenson's final manuscript. By the best-selling author of The Dante Club.
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Goodnight June : a novel
by Sarah Jio
We will discuss this book on Thursday, May 28.
The best-selling author of Morning Glory imagines how the beloved children's classic, Goodnight Moon, came to be, resulting in a woman discovering letters between her great aunt and the author, Margaret Wise Brown.
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The book woman of Troublesome Creek
by Kim Michele Richardson
We will discuss this book on Thursday, June 25.
"Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble in their small town. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creekis a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman's determination to bring a little bit of hope to the darkly hollers"
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The bookman's tale : a novel of obsession
by Charles C Lovett
We wil discuss this book on Thursday, July 30.
Relocating to the English countryside after the death of his wife, antiquarian book enthusiast Peter Byerly discovers an 18th-century study of Shakespeare forgeries that contains a Victorian portrait strongly resembling his late wife, a finding that sparks an obsessive search through the bard's historical period.
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Midnight at the Bright Ideas bookstore : a novel
by Matthew Sullivan
We will discuss this book on Thursday, August 27.
Lydia Smith, a clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, must unravel a puzzle left behind by a patron who has committed suicide, an effort that is complicated by memories of her violent childhood
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The secrets we kept
by Lara Prescott
We will discuss this book on Thursday, September 24.
A tale of spycraft, love and sacrifice inspired by the true story of Doctor Zhivago follows the efforts of two CIA agents to help publish Boris Pasternak’s censored masterpiece against a backdrop of Cold War politics in Moscow.
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The thirteenth tale : a novel
by Diane Setterfield
We will discuss this book on Thursday, October 29.
Having spent sixty years creating a series of alternate identities for herself, enigmatic Vida Winter pens a painful letter to young Margaret Lea when the latter begs her to disclose the truth about her secretive birth.
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The library of the unwritten
by A. J. Hackwith
We will discuss this book on MONDAY, November 30.
Assigned to watch the restless characters of books left unfinished by their authors, a head librarian of Hell’s neutral Unwritten Wing tracks an escaped Hero before an angel attack reveals the existence of a powerful literary weapon..
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The bookshop of yesterdays
by Amy Meyerson
We will discuss this book on MONDAY, December 28.
When Miranda Brooks receives the unexpected news that her uncle Billy has died and left her his bookstore, she discovers he's left her a business teetering on bankruptcy and a final scavenger hunt
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