Monthly Archives: February 2011

Book Club Kit: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford First Published: 2009 10 Copies & Reading Guide When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at a Seattle hotel, Henry … Continue reading

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Book Club Kit: The Family on Beartown Road

The Family on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Love and Courage* by Elizabeth Cohen First Published: 2003 5 Copies & Reading Guide Soon after her daughter’s first birthday, Elizabeth Cohen’s husband walked out of their rambling old house in the … Continue reading

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Book Club Kit: Shopaholic & Baby

Shopaholic & Baby (Shopaholic #5) by Sophie Kinsella First Published: 2007 6 Copies & Reading Guide Becky Bloomwood Brandon is pregnant! She couldn’t be more overjoyed, especially since discovering that shopping cures morning sickness. Everything has got to be perfect … Continue reading

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Book Club Kit: The Shack

The Shack by William P. Young First Published: 2007 6 Copies & Reading Guide Mackenzie Allen Phillips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an … Continue reading

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[Kit Unavailable] Book Club Kit: The Big Dig

The Big Dig (Carlotta Carlyle #9) by Linda Barnes First Published: 2002 6 Copies & Reading Guide Bored with her assignment working undercover to seek out fraud on Boston’s Big Dig project, private detective Carlotta Carlyle moonlights by taking on the … Continue reading

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Book Club Kit: The Innocent Man

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham First Published: 2006 8 Copies & Reading Guide In 1982, a 21-year-old cocktail watiress was raped and murdered. The police suspected Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz, but … Continue reading

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Book Club Kit: The Bridges of Madison County

The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller First Published: 1992 5 Copies & Reading Guide Robert Kincaid, a photographer and free spirit, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, reveal what … Continue reading

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Book Club Kit: Unwind

Unwind by Neal Shusterman First Published: 2007 8 Copies & Reading Guide Connor’s parents want to be rid of him because he’s a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev’s unwinding has been … Continue reading

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Book Club Kit: Blue Blood

Blue Blood: A Debutante Dropout Mystery (#1) by Susan McBride First Published: 2004 5 Copies & Reading Guide To the dismay of her high society mother Cissy, Dallas heiress Andy Kendricks wants no part of the Junior League life — … Continue reading

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Book Club Kit: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells First Published: 1996 6 Copies & Reading Guide When Siddalee Walker, oldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, Ya-Ya extraordinaire, is interviewed in the New York Times about a hit play she’s … Continue reading

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