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Harrison Book Club News November 2023
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court
by Mark Twain
This classic social satire follows Yankee Hank Morgan after a blow to the head in nineteenth-century Connecticut transports him to 528 A.D., where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom
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The songcatcher : a ballad novel
by Sharyn McCrumb
Folksinger Lark McCourry retraces the history of a family song, which she had heard from her North Carolina relatives as a child, back to eighteenth-century Scotland to young Malcolm MacQuarry, kidnapped and sent to the American colonies, where he eventually became a lawyer and fought in the American Revolution.
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The orphan master's son : a novel
by Adam Johnson
The son of a singer mother whose career forcibly separated her from her family and an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il.
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Homecoming : a novel
by Kate Morton
Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London for two decades, she now finds herself unemployed and struggling to make ends meet. A phone call out of nowhere summons her back to Sydney, where her beloved grandmother Nora, who raised Jess when her mother could not, has suffered a fall and is seriously ill in the hospital. At Nora's house, Jess discovers a true crime book chronicling a long-buried police case: the Turner Family Tragedy of 1959. It is only when Jess skims through its pages that she finds a shocking connection between her own family and this notorious event -- a mystery that has never been satisfactorily resolved.
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The girl with the dragon tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family, her octogenarian uncle hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to investigate.
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The last bookshop in London : a novel of World War II
by Madeline Martin
August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler's forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers and drawn curtains that she finds on her arrival are not what she expected. And she certainly never imagined she'd wind up working at Primrose Hill, a dusty old bookshop nestled in the heart of London. Through blackouts and air raids as the Blitz intensifies, Grace discovers the power of storytelling to unite her community in ways she never dreamed--a forcethat triumphs over even the darkest nights of the war.
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The book of lost friends : a novel
by Lisa Wingate
A modern-day teacher discovers the story of three Reconstruction-era young women--freed slave Hannie, impoverished plantation heiress Lavinia, and Lavinia's Creole half-sister Juneau Jane--traveling from Louisiana to Texas in 1875, and how it connects toher own students' lives
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The diamond eye : a novel
by Kate Quinn
Known as Lady Death--a lethal hunter of Nazis--Mila Pavlichenko, sent to America on a goodwill tour, forms an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and a connection with a silent fellow sniper, offering her a chance at happiness until her past returns with a vengeance.
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About Grace : a novel
by Anthony Doerr
Possessing an unsettling ability to predict random future events, Anchorage resident David Winkler foresees his infant daughter's drowning death and travels thousands of miles to Ohio and the Caribbean to prevent the tragedy, learning about human frailty and the importance of everyday miracles along the way.
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West with giraffes : a novel
by Lynda Rutledge
Inspired by true events, this part adventure, part historical saga and part coming-of-age love story follows Woodrow Wilson Nickel as he recalls his journey in 1938 to deliver Southern California’s first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo.
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The horse dancer
by Jojo Moyes
A headstrong teen quietly training to become an elite equestrian to fulfill her ailing grandfather's ambitions is taken in by a struggling lawyer and her estranged husband, whose lives are thrown into turmoil by a devastating secret.
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A gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he endures life in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold. By the best-selling author of Rules of Civility.
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None of this is true : a novel
by Lisa Jewell
Popular podcaster Alix Summer becomes the subject of her own podcast after a woman named Josie Fair comes into her life and then disappears, leaving behind a terrible and terrifying legacy that puts her life and her family's lives in mortal danger.
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Obsession
by Stuart Woods
Brought in to recover a young Croatian billionaire's wife, who was kidnapped while her husband was making a deal with Centurion Studios, Teddy Fay quickly comes to realize dark forces are at play, while dealing with an obsessive fan with deadly intentions who weasels his way onto the film set.
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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. ―George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons |
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