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NEW Book Club in a Bag titles! Spring 2019
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The following titles are now available for reservations for book clubs in a bag.
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An American marriage
by Tayari Jones
When her new husband is imprisoned for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising artist takes comfort in a longtime friendship, only to see her husband's sentence is suddenly overturned. By the author of Silver Sparrow. Reprint. AB. K. LJ. NYT. PW. A New York Times best-seller
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Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian lions
by Mario Giordano
Retiring to Sicily in the hopes of spending her final years enjoying the ocean view, the wine and the company of friends, 60-year-old Auntie Poldi discovers that her new home is not quite as tranquil as anticipated when her handsome young handyman is found murdered.
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Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
by Gail Honeyman
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.
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Elsewhere, home
by Leila Aboulela
The first story collection from the New York Times Notable author since winning the Caine Prize offers a rich tableau of life as an immigrant abroad, attempting to navigate the conflicts of assimilation and difference in an unfamiliar world. Original
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The friend
by Sigrid Nunez
Becoming the guardian of her late best friend's enormous Great Dane, a grieving woman is evicted from her no-pets apartment and forges a deep bond with the equally distraught animal in ways that initially disturb her friends.
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Only child
by Rhiannon Navin
Surviving a horrific school shooting, a six-year-old boy retreats into the world of books and art while making sobering observations about his mother's determination to prosecute the shooter's parents and the wider community's efforts to make sense of the tragedy. A first novel.
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A place for us : a novel
by Fatima Farheen Mirza
A story of family identity and belonging follows an Indian family through the marriage of their daughter, from the parents' arrival in the United States to the return of their estranged son.
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Sold on a Monday : a novel
by Kristina McMorris
When struggling reporter Ellis Reed takes a photograph of a sign advertising two children for sale in 1931, it leads to his big break and evokes memories from his past.
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The tattooist of Auschwitz : a novel
by Heather Morris
A novel based on the true story of an Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor traces the experiences of a Jewish Slovakian who uses his position as a concentration-camp tattooist to secure food for his fellow prisoners.
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This atom bomb in me by Lindsey A FreemanA secret city during the Manhattan Project and a major Cold War nuclear production site, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, enriched the uranium for the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. For Lindsey A. Freeman, the granddaughter of an atomic courier, Oak Ridge was also a home. With This Atom Bomb in Me, she gives us an enchanting, sometimes unsettling memoir about growing up at the epicenter of America's nuclear culture in the late twentieth century. Alternately tender and alarming, it takes a Geiger counter to recent history, reading the half-life of the atomic past as it resonates in our tense nuclear present (book jacket).
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