Next meeting is
December 11th!
Here are some titles we discussed at our November meeting!
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The Diplomat's Daughter: A Novel
Karin Tanabe · Washington Square Press
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
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For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and Orphan Train, the author of the "thought-provoking" (Library Journal, starred review) and "must-read" (PopSugar) novel The Gilded Years crafts a captivating tale of three young people... |
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The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir
Ruth Wariner · Flatiron Books
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting, deeply affecting true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist family.
RUTH WARINER was the thirty-ninth of her father's forty-two children. Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turn a blind eye to the practices of her community,... |
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
Timothy Egan · Mariner Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand... |
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The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan · Miramax/Hyperion
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
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Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse-Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows... |
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Wonder Woman Vol. 1: The Lies
Greg Rucka · Dc Comics
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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Heroic. Iconic. Unstoppable. Armed with her Lasso of Truth and imbued with the power of the gods themselves, Princess Diana of Themyscira - known to the world as Wonder Woman - is one of the greatest superheroes in history.
But who is she ... really? Not even Wonder Woman herself... |
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Jane Austen Ruined My Life
Beth Pattillo · GuidepostsBooks
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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English professor Emma Grant has always done everything just the way her minister father told her she should -- a respectable marriage, a teaching job at a good college, and plans for the requisite two children. Life was prodigiously good, as her favorite author Jane Austen might say, until... |
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The Handmaid's Tale
MARGARET ATWOOD · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Now a Hulu Original Series, premiering in April
The Handmaid's Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic... |
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The Mark of the Assassin
Daniel Silva · Signet
Pages: 515
Format: Paperback
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CIA Agent Michael Osbourne stars in this suspenseful series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Gabriel Allon novels.
When a commercial airliner is blown out of the sky off the east coast, the CIA scrambles to find the perpetrators. A body is discovered... |
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My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
PAMELA PAUL · HENRY HOLT
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Imagine keeping a record of every book you ever read. What would those titles say about you? With humor and warmth, the editor of The New York Times Book Review shares the stories that have shaped her lifeFor twenty-eight years, Pamela Paul has been keeping a diary that records the books... |
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Robert B. Parker's Slow Burn
Ace Atkins · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 304
Format: Audiobook
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Boston PI Spenser faces a hot case and a personal crisis in the latest adventure in the iconic New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins.
The fire at a boarded-up Catholic church raged hot and fast, lighting up Boston's South End and killing three firefighters... |
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My Story
Elizabeth Smart · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crimeOn June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken... |
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Tom Clancy Commander in Chief: A Jack Ryan Novel
Mark Greaney · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 718
Format: Print book
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The newest electrifying thriller in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series has President Jack Ryan and his allies facing a treacherous foe threatening to unleash chaos around the globe. . . .
When Russian President Valeri Volodin's ambitions are foiled in Dagestan, he faces... |
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