Tag Archives: 2010

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: The Warmth of Other Suns

Posted on April 26, 2012 by

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson First Published: 2010 10 Copies & Reading Guide In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold … Continue reading →

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Book Club Kit: Death Clouds on Mt. Baldy

Posted on April 3, 2012 by

Death Clouds on Mt Baldy: Tucson’s Lost Tragedy by Cathy Hufault First Published: 2010 10 Copies & Reading Guide Nov. 15, 1958. An arctic-like blizzard roars out of nowhere across the mild desert terrain of southern Arizona. Boy scouts are … Continue reading →

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Book Club Kit: The Cold Kiss

Posted on February 2, 2012 by

The Cold Kiss by John Rector First Published: 2010 10 Copies & Reading Guide Giving a ride to a snowbound stranger who offers them a lucrative sum in exchange, a recently engaged couple is thrown into a nightmarish situation when … Continue reading →

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Book Club Kit: The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

Posted on November 2, 2011 by

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W Durrow First Published: 2010 10 Copies & Reading Guide Rachel, whose mother is Danish and father is African-American, loses both her parents and is forced to move to a new … Continue reading →

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Book Club Kit: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

Posted on October 19, 2011 by

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin First Published: 2010 10 Copies & Reading Guide For a few months in the late 1970s, Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother, … Continue reading →

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Book Club Kit: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand

Posted on October 5, 2011 by

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson First Published: 2010 10 Copies & Reading Guide Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until his brother’s death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. … Continue reading →

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Book Club Kit: Room

Posted on September 28, 2011 by

Room by Emma Donoghue First Published: 2010 10 Copies & Reading Guide Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square … Continue reading →

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Book Club Kit: Secret Daughter

Posted on August 5, 2011 by

Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda First Published: 2010 10 Copies & Reading Guide Interweaves the stories of a baby girl in India, the American doctor who adopted her, and the Indian mother who gave her up in favor of … Continue reading →

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Book Club Kit: Making Toast

Posted on June 10, 2011 by

Making Toast: A Family Story by Roger Rosenblatt First Published: 2010 10 Copies & Reading Guide When his daughter, Amy—a gifted doctor, mother, and wife—collapses and dies from an asymptomatic heart condition, Roger Rosenblatt and his wife, Ginny, leave their … Continue reading →

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