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VOTING is now open for
Fall 2017 Book Club in a Bag books!
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Voting will end November 30th for this list. You may vote for 6 titles. You may only vote once. Click HERE to go to survey.
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Love, Alice by Barbara DavisA sweeping new Southern women's fiction novel about forgiving the past one letter at a time. The truth lies between the lines. A year ago, Dovie Larkin's life was shattered when her fiance committed suicide just weeks before their wedding. Now, plagued by guilt, she has become a fixture at the cemetery where William is buried, visiting his grave daily, waiting for answers she knows will never come. Then one day, she sees an old woman whose grief mirrors her own. Fascinated, she watches the woman leave a letter on a nearby grave. As Dovie seeks to answer questions about another woman's past questions filled with deception, betrayal, and heartbreaking loss she starts to discover the keys to love, forgiveness, and finally embracing the future
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The fortunes by Peter Ho Davies Building fact into fiction, spinning fiction around fact, Davies offers a groundbreaking, provocative new novel recasting American history through the lives of Chinese Americans. Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured. The family institution is revered in Chinese culture, but the historical reality of Chinese Americans has seen family bonds denied, fragmented, or imperiled. Through four lives a railroad baron's valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor, Hollywood's first Chinese movie star, a victim of a hate crime that mobilizes Asian Americans, and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption--this novel captures and capsizes over a century of our history. He uses each of these stories three inspired by real historical characters to examine the process of becoming not only Chinese American, but American.
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Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end by Atul GawandeA prominent surgeon argues against modern medical practices that extend life at the expense of quality of life while isolating the dying, outlining suggestions for freer, more fulfilling approaches to death that enable more dignified and comfortable choices. (Non-fiction)
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News of the world by Paulette JilesA live news reader traveling the antebellum south is offered $50 to bring an orphan girl, who was kidnapped and raised by Kiowa raiders, back to her family in San Antonio. (historical fiction).
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A monster calls
by Patrick Ness
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill, but an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
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Close enough to touch by Colleen OakleyA young woman with a rare and debilitating allergy to other humans is forced to venture out into the world after the death of her mother before forging an unusual bond with a struggling single dad.
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Miller's Valley : a novel by Anna QuindlenComing of age in a dwindling 1960s farming community in eastern Pennsylvania, Mimi struggles with profound family secrets and the pain of falling in love with the wrong person against a backdrop of dynamic historical periods.
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If the creek don't rise : a novel by Leah WeissOne of innumerable women in a North Carolina mountain town facing a bleak future with a dangerous alcoholic husband, Sadie considers a different life when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off-kilter for the entire community.
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Remember you can submit suggestions for future voting at any time using
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New Hanover County Public Library: Pleasure Island 1401 N. Lake Park Blvd Carolina Beach, North Carolina 28428 910-798-6385www.nhclibrary.org/ |
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