2024 BOOK LIST & MEETING DATES
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January 4:
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The Violin Conspiracy
Brendan Slocumb - Anchor
Format: Hardcover
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Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical... |
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February 1:
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The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestseller of hope, daring, and the quest for freedom taken on by two unforgettable American women, from the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees. "A remarkable novel that heightened my sense of what it meant to be a woman - slave or free... |
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March 7:
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Surviving Savannah
Patti Callahan
Format: Hardcover
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When Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new museum collection focusing on artifacts recovered from the steamship Pulaski, she's shocked. The ship sank after a boiler explosion in 1838, and the wreckage was just discovered, 180 years later. Everly can't... |
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April 4:
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Miss Kopp Investigates
Amy Stewart - Thorndike Press Large Print; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Large Print
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"Life after the war takes an unexpected turn for the Kopp sisters, but soon enough, they are putting their unique detective skills to use in new and daring ways"-- |
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May 2:
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Riverman
McGrath, Ben
Format: electronic resource
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“This quietly profound book belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild.” —The New York Times
The riveting true story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years, canoed solo thousands of miles... |
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July 11:
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The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel
Laura Dave - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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We all have stories we never tell. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers: Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost... |
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August 1:
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The Ballad of Tom Dooley: A Ballad Novel
Sharyn McCrumb - Wheeler Publishing; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestselling Author An Alternate Selection of the Doubleday Book Club? Literary Guild? and Mystery GuildHang down your head, Tom Dooley . . . The folk song, made famous by the Kingston Trio, recounts a tragedy in the North Carolina mountains after the Civil War. Laura... |
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September 5:
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel
Mark Sullivan - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland.Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the USA Today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man's incredible courage and resilience... |
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October 3:
Zoom call with author
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The Midwife of Hope River
Patricia Harman - Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover
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A Library Journal Fabulous First for Fall -- Midwife Patience Murphy has a gift for escorting mothers through the challenges of bringing children into the world. Working in the hardscrabble conditions of Appalachia during the Depression, she helps those most in need -- and least likely... |
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November 7:
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Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South
Margaret Renkl - Milkweed Editions
Format: Hardcover
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"People have often asked me how it feels to be the 'voice of the South,'" writes Renkl in her introduction. "But I'm not the voice of the South, and no one else is, either." There are many Souths -- red and blue, rural and urban, mountain and coast, Black... |
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December 5:
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