Next meeting is March 12th!
Here's what we discussed at our last meeting:
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The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling
Peter Ackroyd · Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh, modern prose retelling captures the vigorous and bawdy spirit of Chaucers classic Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to modern... |
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel
Jamie Ford · Ballantine Books
Pages: 290
Format: Print book
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"Sentimental, heartfelt ... .the exploration of Henry's changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the present and take... |
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Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng · Penguin Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives
"I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single, breathless... |
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua · Penguin Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An awe-inspiring often hilarious and unerringly honest story of one mothers exercise in extreme parenting revealing the rewards-and the costs-of raising her children the Chinese way All decent parents want to do whats best for their children What Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother reveals... |
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The Glass Menagerie: The Deluxe Centennial Edition
Tennessee Williams · New Directions; Deluxe edition
Format: Print book
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A beautiful clothbound edition of a beloved classic to celebrate the 100th birthday of America’s greatest playwright, with a sweeping new introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winner Tony Kushner. The Glass Menagerie marked a crucial turning point in American theater, and forever... |
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Whiter Than Snow
Sandra Dallas · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 292
Format: Book
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From The New York Times bestselling author of Prayers for Sale comes the moving and powerful story of a small town after a devastating avalanche, and the life changing effects it has on the people who live there Whiter Than Snow opens in 1920, on a spring afternoon... |
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The Perfect Nanny: A Novel
Lei?la Slimani · Penguin Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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"Is The Perfect Nanny the next Gone Girl? This author's book on a killer nanny is next year's must-read." - The Telegraph
The #1 international bestseller and winner of France's most prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt - the first book by a Moroccan... |
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Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Joe Biden · Flatiron Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply moving memoir about the year that would forever change both a family and a country. In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years; it was the one constant... |
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The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
NINA RIGGS · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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An exquisite memoir about how to live - and love - every day with "death in the room," from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air.
"We are breathless, but we love... |
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The Story of Arthur Truluv
ELIZABETH BERG · Random House
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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An emotionally powerful novel about three people who each lose the one they love most, only to find second chances where they least expect them
"Fans of Meg Wolitzer, Emma Straub, or [Elizabeth] Berg's previous novels will appreciate the richly complex characters and clear prose.... |
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End Game
DAVID BALDACCI · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci returns with his most breathtaking thriller yet . . .
Will Robie and Jessica Reel are two of the most lethal people alive. They're the ones the government calls in when the utmost secrecy is required to take out those who plot... |
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Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline · William Morrow
Pages: 278
Format: Paperback
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Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by pure luck. Would they be adopted by a kind and loving family, or would they face a childhood... |
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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel
MATTHEW SULLIVAN · Scribner
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Goodreads Debut Author of the Month and an Indie Next Pick!
"Sullivan's debut is a page-turner featuring a heroine bookseller who solves a cold case with clues from books - what is not to love?" - Nina George, author of The Little French Bistro, and the New... |
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A Stranger in the House - Large Print
Shari Lapena · Random House Large Print
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door, a new thriller featuring a suspicious accident, a wife who can't account for herself, and unsettling questions that threaten to tear the couple apart You're home making dinner for your husband. You expect him any second.... |
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