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Wednesday, September 25, 2024     Discussion leader: Tracy Hawkins

True Grit: A Novel

Charles Portis - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling classic frontier adventure novel that inspired two award-winning films! Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of Americas foremost writers. True Grit, his most famous novel, was first published in 1968, and became the basis for two movies, the 1969...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2024     Discussion leader: Sarah Bryan

The War that Saved My Life

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times BestsellerNewbery Honor BookWinner of the Schneider Family Book Award (Middle School) Wall Street Journal Best Children's Books of 2015New York Public Library's 100 Books for Reading and Sharing An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024      Discussion leader: Jennifer Rae

Front Desk

Kelly Yang - Arthur A. Levine Books
Format: Hardcover

Mia Tang has a lot of secrets.Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests.Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner,...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2025      Discussion leader: Sheri Britsch

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Timothy Egan - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback

This National Book Award-winning story, a tour de force of historical reportage, rescues an iconic chapter of American history - the Dust Bowl that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression - from the shadows.. Following a dozen families and their communities through...
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025      Discussion leader: Amber Ard

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Paperback

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025      Discussion leader: Yara Wilson

Rebecca

Daphne Du Maurier
Format: Book

Rebecca is widely regarded as Daphne du Maurier's finest novel. It tells the story of Manderley - an exquisite house with gardens down to the sea, its owner Max de Winter and his new young wife...and of course Rebecca. 

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025     Discussion leader: Misty Walker

The Maid: A Novel

Nita Prose - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2025      Discussion leader: Michelle Parry

Project Hail Mary: A Novel

Andy Weir - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows...
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