2024 Book List and Meeting Dates
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January 23:
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann - Doubleday
Format: Book
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On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left... |
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February 27:
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Breaking Silence
Linda Castillo - Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestselling Author -- When the Slabaugh family is found dead in their barn, it appears to be a gruesome accident methane gas asphyxiation caused by a poorly ventilated cesspit. But its soon revealed to be murder, possibly tied to a series of vicious hate crimes against... |
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March 26:
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Demon Copperhead Intl: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
Barbara Kingsolver - Harper
Format: Paperback
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WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE * WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONA New York Times "Ten Best Books of 2022" * An Oprah's Book Club Selection * An Instant New York Times Bestseller * An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller * A #1 Washington Post Bestseller... |
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April 23:
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She Weeps Each Time You're Born: A Novel
Quan barry - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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Quan Barry’s luminous fiction debut brings us the tumultuous history of modern Vietnam as experienced by a young girl born under mysterious circumstances a few years before the country’s reunification, a child gifted with the otherworldly ability to hear the voices of the dead.... |
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May 28:
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Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Format: Book
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"Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked . . ."To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their... |
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June 25:
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The Dictionary of Lost Words: A Novel
Pip Williams - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme's place... |
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July 23:
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Starter Villain
John Scalzi - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover
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Following the bestselling The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi returns with Starter Villain, another unique sci-fi caper set in the strangest of all worlds, present-day Earth.Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.Sure,... |
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August 27:
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Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
Margaret Renkl - Milkweed Editions
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times opinion writer Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family -- and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world. Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads,... |
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September 24:
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Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel
Shelby Van Pelt
Format: Hardcover
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"Remarkably Bright Creaturesis a beautiful examination of how loneliness can be transformed, cracked open, with the slightest touch from another living thing." -- Kevin Wilson, author ofNothing to See HereFor fans ofA Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable... |
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October 22:
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Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel
Bonnie Garmus - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A delight for readers of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, this blockbuster debut set in 1960s California features the singular voice of Elizabeth Zott, a scientist whose career takes a detour when she becomes the star of a beloved TV cooking show.Chemist Elizabeth... |
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November 26:
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A Christmas Memory: One Christmas, and The Thanksgiving Visitor
Truman Capote - Modern Library
Format: Print book
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Taking its place next to Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood on the Modern Library bookshelf is this new and original edition of Capote's most famous short stories: "A Christmas Memory, " "One Christmas, " and "A Thanksgiving Memory." All three stories... |
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