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East Region Adult Book Club |
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July 15 at 12 p.m.
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The German Girl
Armando Lucas Correa · Atria Books
Pages: 343
Format: Book
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A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel, perfect for fans of The Nightingale, Schindler's List, and All the Light We Cannot See, about twelve-year-old Hannah Rosenthal's harrowing experience fleeing Nazi-occupied Germany with her family and best... |
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August 19 at 12 p.m.
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The Last Mrs. Parrish
LIV CONSTANTINE · Harper
Pages: 400
Format: Book
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"Deliciously duplicitous. . . . equally as twisty, spellbinding, and addictive as Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl or Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train." - Library Journal (starred review)
The mesmerizing debut about a coolly manipulative woman and a wealthy "golden... |
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September 16 at 12 p.m.
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez · Algonquin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does... |
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October 21 at 12 p.m.
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The Dutch House
Ann Patchett · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Book
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Ann Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go.
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November 18 at 12 p.m.
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A Death in the Family
James Agee
Format: Paperback
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Forty years after its original publication, James Agee's last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man's death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then showed how q |
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December 16 at 12 p.m.
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The Queen's Gambit
Walter Tevis · Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's... |
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