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Harrison Library Book Club News March 2022
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As we trudge through winter, a book can take your mind off the cold. And the ice. And the wind. Bonus for this month, after you've read the Classic book, check out the movie(s) & see how they compare! Let us know if you've read a good book lately & we'll include it in a future newsletter. Happy reading!
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Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again.
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The giver of stars
by Jojo Moyes
Volunteering for Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library in small-town Kentucky, an English bride joins a group of independent women whose commitment to their job transforms the community and their relationships.
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The younger wife
by Sally Hepworth
"Stephen Aston is getting married again. The only problem is, he's still married to his first wife, even though she is in a care facility for dementia. But he'll take care of that easily, by divorcing her--even if his adult daughters protest. Tully and Rachel Aston look upon Heather as nothing but an interloper. Heather is the same age as Rachel and even younger than Tully. Clearly she's a golddigger and after their father's money. Heather has secrets that she's keeping close, and reasons of her own for wanting to marry Stephen. With their mother unable to speak for herself, Tully and Rachel are determined to getto the truth about their family's secrets, the new wife closing in, and who their father really is."
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The Tobacco Wives
by Adele Myers
In 1947 North Carolina, seamstress Maddie Sykes, a dressmaker for Bright Leaf’s most influential women—the wives of powerful tobacco executives, uncovers dangerous truths about this lucrative industry in a place where everyone depends on Big Tobacco to survive.
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The Diamond Eye
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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French braid
by Anne Tyler
Follows the Garrett family from 1959 onward as they discover that their actions advance across decades and ripple through generations, in the new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons.
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By order of the President
by W. E. B. Griffin
When a leased Boeing 727 vanishes after two passengers murder the pilot, Army intelligence officer Major Carlos Guilermo Castillo, a veteran of the Special Forces, is called in by the President of the United States to uncover the truth.
Counterintelligence, politics, & bureaucracy, oh my. If you like Tom Clancy, you'll probably enjoy this 8-book Presidential Agent series. Lots of action, lots of back story. A thoroughly enjoyable read.
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