Category Archives: Fiction

Book Club Kit: Close Your Eyes

Posted on May 16, 2013 by

Close Your Eyes by Amanda Eyre Ward First Published: 2011 10 Copies & Reading Guide For most of her life, Lauren Mahdian has been certain of two things: that her mother is dead, and that her father is a murderer. … Continue reading →

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Book Club Kit: The Sandcastle Girls

Posted on May 13, 2013 by

The Sandcastle Girls By Chris Bohjalian First Published 2012 10 Copies & Reading Guide When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Aleppo, Syria, she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of … Continue reading →

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Book Club Kit: The Shoemaker’s Wife

Posted on May 6, 2013 by

The Shoemaker’s Wife By Adriana Trigiani First Published: 2012 10 Copies & Reading Guide The majestic beauty of the Italian Alps at the turn of the twentieth century is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, … Continue reading →

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Book Club Kit: The Hour I First Believed

Posted on May 2, 2013 by

The Hour I First Believed By Wally Lamb First Published: 2008 10 Copies & Reading Guide When high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High … Continue reading →

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Book Club Kit: Before I Fall

Posted on April 29, 2013 by

Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver First Published 2010 10 Copies & Reading Guide Friday, February 12 is a big day for Samantha Kingston: It’s Cupid Day, when all the kids at school will count the roses they receive to … Continue reading →

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Book Club Kit: State of the Onion

Posted on March 17, 2013 by

State of the Onion (#1) by Julie Hyzy First Published: 2008 6 Copies & Reading Guide Never let them see you sweat-that’s White House Assistant Chef Olivia Paras’s motto, which is pretty hard to honor in the most important kitchen … Continue reading →

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Book Club Kit: Sins of the Assassin

Posted on March 3, 2013 by

Sins of the Assassin (Book #2) by Robert Ferrigno First Published: 2008 6 Copies & Reading Guide The year is 2043. Rakkim Epps battles radical fundamentalist forces in a futuristic America, now a divided blood-soaked dystopia. New York and Washington, D.C., … Continue reading →

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Book Club Kit: Easy Innocence

Posted on February 3, 2013 by

Easy Innocence by Libby Fischer Hellmann First Published: 2008 5 Copies & Reading Guide When pretty, smart Sara is found bludgeoned to death, it’s easy to blame the man with the bat. But Georgia finds a much different darker answer … Continue reading →

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Book Club Kit: The Dressmaker

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott First Published: 2011 10 Copies & Reading Guide Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she’s had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be a personal maid … Continue reading →

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Book Club Kit: Before I Go to Sleep

Posted on December 24, 2012 by

Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson First Published: 2011 6 Copies & Reading Guide An amnesiac attempts to reconstruct her past by keeping a journal and discovers the dangerous inconsistencies in the stories of her husband and her … Continue reading →

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