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Book Club Mixer featuring a virtual visit with Mia Manansala, author of Arsenic & Adobo Saturday, November 5, 2pm First Floor Meeting RoomMeet other local book clubs, get book discussion tips, compete in book club trivia and have the chance to earn prizes! Light refreshments will be served. RSVP to Rachel (rdepcik@parkridgelibrary.org) or Sarah (sroots@parkridgelibrary.org)
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The Measure
by Nikki Erlick
A spirit-lifting, high-concept blockbuster debut set in a world where people can find out how much time they have left to live.
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Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
In the early 1960s, chemist and single mother Elizabeth Zott, the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show due to her revolutionary skills in the kitchen, uses this opportunity to dare women to change the status quo.
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The Husbands
by Chandler Baker
When Nora meets a group of high-powered women whose husbands are supportive unlike her own, she discovers that the women use an unorthodox method of couples' therapy that has transformed their lives--one that is worth killing for.
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Islands of Abandonment
by Cal Flyn
Visits the eeriest and most desolate places on Earth that have been abandoned by humans, and nature has rushed in to fill the void faster and more thoroughly than even the most hopeful projections of scientists. In partnership with Go Green Park Ridge.
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Violeta
by Isabel Allende
Living out her days in a remote part of her South American homeland, Violeta finds her life shaped by some of the most important events of history as she tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others.
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Peach Blossom Spring
by Melissa Fu
Settling in America years after his turbulent childhood in China, Renshu, now Henry Dao, refuses to talk to his daughter about her heritage, determined to keep her safe in this new land despite being weighed down by his history
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The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
In 1947, pregnant Charlie St. Clair, an American college girl banished from her family, arrives in London to find out what happened to her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, and meets a former spy who, torn apart by betrayal, agrees to help her on her mission.
Generously donated by the Pagewiners Book Club.
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A Woman of No Importance
by Sonia Purnell
Traces the story of mid-twentieth-century spy Virginia Hall, detailing her pivotal role in coordinating Resistance activities in Europe that helped change the course of World War II.
Generously donated by The Tattered Readers book club in memory of Virginia S. Brauweiler.
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The Secrets We Kept
by Lara Prescott
A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago.
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The Thursday Murder Club
by Richard Osman
Meeting weekly in their retirement village’s Jigsaw Room to exchange theories about unsolved crimes, four savvy septuagenarians propose a daring but unorthodox plan to help a woman rookie cop solve her first big murder case.
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The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
Reunited when the elder's husband is sent to fight in World War II, French sisters Vianne and Isabelle find their bond as well as their respective beliefs tested by a world that changes in horrific ways.
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