Next meeting is
February 12th!
Here's what we discussed at our January meeting:
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Best Day Ever
Kaira Rouda · Graydon House Pages: 342 Format: Hardcover
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In the bestselling, page-turning vein of The Couple Next Door and The Dinner, Kaira Rouda weaves a gripping, tautly suspenseful tale of deception and betrayal dark enough to destroy a marriage ... or a life.
"I glance at my wife as she climbs into the passenger seat, and I am bursting... |
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The Girl who Takes and Eye for an Eye
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ · Knopf Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the #1 international best seller The Girl in the Spider's Web: the new book in the Millennium series, which began with Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, the brilliant hacker,... |
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Last Lessons of Summer
Margaret Maron · Mysterious Press; 1ST edition Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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Heir to her family's successful children's book and merchandising business, Amy Stedman arrives in NorthCarolina with the task of clearing out the house of her deceased grandmother-whose murder remains unsolved. While sorting through her grandmother's things, Amy begins to reflect... |
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The Rooster Bar
JOHN GRISHAM · Doubleday Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham's newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that's on shaky ground.
Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close... |
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Love and Other Consolation Prizes: A Novel
JAMIE FORD · Ballantine Books Pages: 307 Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel, inspired by a true story, about a boy whose life is transformed at Seattle's epic 1909 World's Fair.
"An evocative, heartfelt, beautifully crafted story that shines... |
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The People vs. Alex Cross
James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover
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The charges: explosive
Alex Cross has never been on the wrong side of the law-until now. Charged with gunning down followers of his nemesis Gary Soneji in cold blood, Cross is being turned into the poster child for trigger-happy cops who think they're above the law. Cross... |
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Top Secret Twenty-One
Janet Evanovich · Bantam Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERCatch a professional assassin: top priority. Find a failure-to-appear and collect big bucks: top score. How she'll pull it all off: top secret. Trenton, New Jersey's favorite used-car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was caught selling a lot more than used cars... |
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead · Doubleday Pages: 306 Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South
Cora is a slave on a cotton... |
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Nightjohn
Gary Paulsen · Laurel-Leaf Books Pages: 112 Format: Paperback
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"To know things, for us to know things, is bad for them. We get to wanting and when we get to wanting it's bad for them. They thinks we want what they got . . . . That's why they don't want us reading." --Nightjohn "I didn't know what letters was, not what... |
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Happiness for Beginners: A Novel
Katherine Center · St. Martin's Griffin
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A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even-more-annoying... |
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The Pursuit of Happiness: A Novel
Douglas Kennedy · Atria Books; Reprint edition Format: Print book
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Manhattan, Thanksgiving eve, 1945. The war is over, and Eric Smythe’s party was in full swing. All his clever Greenwich Village friends were there. So too was his sister Sara, an independent, outspoken young woman, starting to make her way in the big city. And then in walked Jack... |
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The Woman in the Window: A Novel
A. J. Finn · William Morrow Pages: 448 Format: Hardcover
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"Astounding. Thrilling. Lovely and amazing....Finn has created a noir for the new millennium, packed with mesmerizing characters, stunning twists, beautiful writing and a narrator with whom I'd love to split a bottle of pinot. Maybe two bottles - I've got a lot of questions for her."... |
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The Immortalists
Chloe Benjamin · G.P. Putnam's Sons Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling family love story reminiscent of Everything I Never Told You from a novelist heralded by Lorrie Moore as a "great new talent."
If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life?
It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East... |
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The Wake Up
Catherine Ryan Hyde · Lake Union Publishing Pages: 332 Format: Paperback
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From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a hauntingly emotional novel of how one man's life changes forever when he rediscovers his ability to feel the pain of others. Something has been asleep in forty-year-old cattle rancher Aiden Delacorte... |
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