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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Book Club Kit: Out Stealing Horses
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson First Published: 2003, Translation: 2005 9 copies & Reading Guide After a meeting with his only neighbor, sixty-seven-year-old Trond is forced to reflect upon a long-ago incident that marks the beginning of a series … Continue reading
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Tagged 2003, 9 Copies, books, Coming-of-Age, Fathers & Sons, Norway, PCLD, Per Petterson, reading
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Book Club Kit: The Art of Racing in the Rain
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein First Published: 2008 9 Copies & Reading Guide Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he … Continue reading
Book Club Kit: Eat, Pray, Love
Eat Pray Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert First Published: 2006 5 Copies & Reading Guide Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had … Continue reading
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Tagged 2006, 5 Copies, AJPL, books, elizabeth gilbert, Memoir, reading, Travel & Adventure
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Book Club Kit: The Sparrow
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell First Published: 1996 6 copies & Reading Guide The sole survivor of a crew sent to explore a new planet, Jesuit priest Emilio Sandoz discovers an alien civilization that raises questions about the very … Continue reading
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Tagged 1996, 6 Copies, books, Mary Doria Russell, PCLD, reading, Science Fiction
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Book Club Kit: A Mercy
A Mercy by Toni Morrison First Published: 2008 10 copies (Large Print) & Reading Guide In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother & who searches … Continue reading
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Tagged 10 Copies, 2008, books, Colonial North America, Historical Fiction, Large Print, Literary Fiction, Nobel Prize, PCLD, reading, Toni Morrison
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Book Club Kit: The Enemy Within
The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World by John Demos First Published: 2008 10 Copies & Reading Guide The term “witch-hunt” is used today to describe everything from political scandals to school board shake-ups. But its … Continue reading
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Tagged 10 Copies, 2008, books, History, John Demos, reading
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Book Club Kit: In the Time of the Butterflies
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez First Published: 1994 10 copies & Reading Guide A fictional account of the young lives of Mirabal sisters Patria, Minerva, and Maria Teresa, otherwise known in the Dominican Republic as Las … Continue reading
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Tagged 10 Copies, 1994, books, Dominican Republic, Historical Fiction, Julia Alvarez, PCLD, reading
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Book Club Kit: The Secret Life of Bees
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd First Published: 2002 9 Copies & Reading Guide Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding … Continue reading
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Tagged 2002, 9 Copies, AJPL, books, reading, Sue Monk Kidd
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