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Harrison Book Club News May 2023
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Tarzan of the apes
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
"Imaginative, exotic, and suspenseful, this ever-popular story introduces one of the most legendary characters in the history of both literature and film. The son of an aristocratic English couple who's abandoned in the wilderness, Tarzan is rescued and reared by apes, developing the courage, strength, and intelligence to win the respect of all the creatures in the jungle. This fast-paced novel traces his riveting encounters with vicious predators, his romance with lovely Jane Porter, his clash with greedy pirates, and other adventures"
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The evening and the morning
by Ken Follett
A prequel to the best-selling The Pillars of the Earth follows the experiences of a young boatbuilder, a scholarly monk and a Norman noblewoman against a backdrop of the Viking attacks at the end of the 10th century in England.
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Where are the children now?
by Mary Higgins Clark
In this much-anticipated sequel to the iconic thriller Where Are the Children?, lawyer-turned-podcaster Melissa and her brother Mike must draw on the experience of their own abduction when Melissa's stepdaughter goes missing to save her from the trauma they still struggle with—or worse.
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Hang the moon : a novel
by Jeannette Walls
When Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more like their father, her daredevil coaching leads to an accident, and Sallie is cast out. Nine years later, she returns, determined to reclaim her place in the family. That's a lot more complicated than Sallie expected, and she enters a world of conflict and lawlessness. Sallie confronts the secrets and scandals that hide in the shadows of the Big House, navigates the factions in the family and town, and finally comes into her own as a bold, sometimes reckless bootlegger.
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A little ray of sunshine
by Kristan Higgins
A young man shocks his adoptive mother by flying to Cape Cod and walking unannounced into the bookstore owned by his birth mother and her grandfather and surprising them, forcing both women into addressing their assumptions about motherhood.
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Hello beautiful : a novel
by Ann Napolitano
Awarded a college basketball scholarship away from his childhood home silenced by tragedy, a young man befriends a spirited young woman who welcomes him into her loving, loud, chaotic household, in the new novel by the author of Dear Edward.
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The covenant of water : a novel
by Abraham Verghese
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, and set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, an epic of love, faith and medicine follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning.
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The 23rd midnight
by James Patterson
When an obsessed maniac turns serial killer Evan Burke's true-crime story into a playbook, adding some of his own gruesome touches, Detective Lindsay Boxer, who put Burke in jail, tracks this elusive suspect, who is determined to put an end to the Murder Club—permanently.
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The senator's wife : a novel
by Liv Constantine
Hiring a health aide to give her the support and independence she needs after hip replacement surgery, DC philanthropist and Senator's wife Sloane Chase, as weeks go by and she becomes sicker, suspects her seemingly perfect employee is plotting to steal her husband, her reputation and even her life.
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