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Calling all Bibliophiles!  Don't know what to read next?  Bring the book you are currently reading along with a title of another book that you love or would recommend highly.  Share your passion for reading by giving a brief booktalk and sharing your titles or favorite authors with others.  Meet like minded readers, or explore a new genre by chatting with others about books. 

Next meeting:  Monday, August 14, 6:30 to 7:30

Below are some of the books we loved and shared at our July 2017 meeting.  All are available at the Culpeper County Library:

 
 
   
 
Beartown: A Novel

FREDRIK BACKMAN · Atria Books
Pages: 418
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestseller * The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove returns with a dazzling, profound novel about a small town with a big dream - and the price required to make it come true. "You'll love this engrossing novel." - People "Backman is a masterful...
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Black List: A Thriller

Brad Thor · Atria/Emily Bestler Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A stunning thriller that predicted the National Security Agency scandal. "Brad Thor is as current as tomorrow's headlines." - Dan Brown#1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor returns with his most explosive thriller ever. Somewhere deep inside the United States government...
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D.C. Dead

Stuart Woods · Putnam; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

After a shocking loss, Stone Barrington is at loose ends, unsure if he wants to stay in New York and continue his work as a partner at Woodman & Weld. It comes as a welcome relief when he's summoned to Washington, D.C., by President Will Lee. The president has a special operation...
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A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition

Ernest Hemingway · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming...
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Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

Margot Lee Shetterly · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestsellerThe phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil rights movement, whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space - a powerful, revelatory contribution that...
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Isle Of Palms: A Lowcountry Tale

Dorothea Benton Frank · Berkley Books
Pages: 411
Format: Print book

Anna Lutz Abbot thinks she has her independence, and therefore her happiness, intact. She is a capable woman, a sensible woman, not someone given to risky living. This all seems to be true enough until her lovely daughter returns from college for the summer a very different person, her wild...
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The Marriage Bureau: The True Story of How Two Matchmakers Arranged Love in Wartime London

Penrose Halson · HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
Pages: 1
Format: Audiobook

A riveting glimpse of life and love during and after the war, The Marriage Bureau is a heart-warming, touching and thoroughly absorbing account of a world gone by.In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four-year-olds, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver,...
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Mrs. Pollifax Pursued

Dorothy Gilman · Fawcett; 1st edition
Pages: 198
Format: Hardcover

"Mrs. Gilman has a nice, relaxed style and an easygoing way of telling a story....Should delight you whether you're looking for smiles or thrills."--The New York Times Book Review The last thing Mrs. Pollifax expects to find in her junk closet is a young woman hiding. Kadi...
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The Original Ginny Moon: A Novel

Benjamin Ludwig · Park Row Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Ginny Moon is a brilliant debut... I was unable to put the book down ... . This novel has all the elements for critical and popular success!" - Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie ProjectSee the world differently.Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your...
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Shouldn't You Be in School?

Lemony Snicket · Little, Brown Books and Company, 2014.
Pages: 325
Format: Print book

Before the Baudelaires became orphans, before he encountered A Series of Unfortunate Events, even before the invention of Netflix, Lemony Snicket was a boy discovering the mysteries of the world.
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The Stars Are Fire: A novel

Anita Shreve · Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERFrom the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife (an Oprah's Book Club selection) : an exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic event and its devastating aftermath--based...
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"Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?"

Lemony Snicket · Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Pages: 291
Format: Print book

Train travel! Murder! Librarians! A Series Finale! On all other nights, the train departs from Stain'd Station and travels to the city without stopping. But not tonight. You might ask, why is this night different from all other nights? But that's the wrong question. Instead ask, where is this...
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