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Wednesday, September 28, 2022    Discussion Leader: Eloise Fugal

Anxious People: A Novel

Fredrik Backman - Atria Books
Format: Paperback

Looking at real estate isnt usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022    Discussion Leader: Zelda Cardon

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley - Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback

The world's most famous work of horror fiction: a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadMary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022    Discussion Leader: Brooke Dodds

84, Charing Cross Road

Helene Hanff - Penguin Books; Reissue edition
Format: Print book

A dramatization of the American Helene Hanff's 20-year correspondence with a London antiquarian bookshop. Also on this cassette is a witty duologue between a elderly general and his wife, played by John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2023    Discussion Leader: Sheri Britsch

Moloka'i

Alan Brennert - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Print book

Young Rachel Kalama, growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1890s, is part of a big, loving Hawaiian family, and dreams of seeing the far-off lands that her father, a merchant seaman, often visits. But at the age of seven, Rachel and her dreams are shattered by the discovery that she has leprosy....
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023    Discussion Leader: Misty Walker

A Year in Provence

Peter Mayle - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback

They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of someday living all year under the Provencal sun. And suddenly it happened. Here is the month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations that Peter Mayle and his wife -- and their two large dogs -- experience their...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023    Discussion Leader: Jennifer Rae

Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Soon to be a Hulu limited series, starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington!Named a Best Book of the Year by: People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads,...
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Wednesday, April 26, 2023    Discussion Leader: Jenifer Pullman

The Midnight Library: A Novel

Matt Haig - Viking
Format: Hardcover

'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance...
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023    Discussion Leader: Yara Wilson

Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

Dani Shapiro - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she recently made about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden story of her own life.What...
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