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Book Club SelectionsMarch 2015
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We offer several book clubs at our branches. New members are always welcome! Click here for a list of dates, times, and places for the meetings.
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The cuckoo's calling
by Robert Galbraith
Working as a private investigator after losing his leg in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike takes the case of a supermodel's suicide and finds himself in a world of beauties, rock star boyfriends, desperate designers, and hedonist pursuits
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Still life with bread crumbs : a novel
by Anna Quindlen
Abandoning her expensive world to move to a small country cabin, a once world-famous photographer bonds with a local man and begins to see the world around her in new, deeper dimensions while evaluating second chances at love, career and self-understanding. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Living Out Loud.
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Identical
by Scott Turow
A mayoral candidate's brother is released from prison 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend in this new novel from the author of Innocent and Presumed Innocent. Reprint. 250,000 first printing.
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Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed
A personal account by the Pushcart Prize-winning author of Torch traces the personal crisis she endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.
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The red queen : a novel of the cousins' war
by Philippa Gregory
Determined to see her son Henry on the throne of England, pious Margaret Beaufort arranges politically advantageous marriages, sends her son out of the country for his safety and lays secret plans for a battle between the houses of York and Lancaster. Readers Guide included. Reissue. A best-selling novel. 350,000 first printing.
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The orphan trains : a history perspectives book
by Peggy Caravantes
A historical event does not look the same to everyone. It often depends on one's perspective. In the Perspectives Library series, readers will come to understand different viewpoints by learning the context, significance and details of key historical events through the eyes of three different people, while engaging with text through questions that spark critical thinking. Also available in paperback and ebook formats.
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Flight behavior : a novel
by Barbara Kingsolver
Tired of living on a failing farm and suffering oppressive poverty, bored housewife Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a potential lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever. Reprint. 300,000 first printing.
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All the way home : building a family in a falling-down house
by David Giffels
Traces the author's whimsical attempts to renovate a crumbling Gilded Age mansion into a functional home for his growing family, an effort challenged by such factors as a lack of plumbing and electricity, a motley band of two- and four-legged squatters, and worse. 100,000 first printing.
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Bright futures : a Lew Fonesca mystery
by Stuart M. Kaminsky
When a recent high-school graduate is arrested for murdering an unpopular political campaigner, Lew Fonesca finds the case challenged by a blackmail investigation in which a popular children's music performer has been accused of being a child predator
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Close your eyes, hold hands : a novel
by Chris Bohjalian
Living in an igloo of ice and trash bags half a year after a cataclysmic nuclear disaster, Emily, convinced that she will be hated as the daughter of the drunken father who caused the meltdown, assumes a fictional identity while protecting a homeless boy. By the best-selling author of The Sandcastle Girls. 150,000 first printing.
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