Tag Archives: 2011

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: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Posted on February 10, 2013 by

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua First Published: 2011 6 Copies & Reading Guide Traces the rewards and pitfalls of a Chinese mother’s exercise in extreme parenting, describing the exacting standards applied to grades, music lessons, and … 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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Book Club Kit: Queen of America

Posted on December 11, 2012 by

Queen of America by Luis Alberto Urrea First Published: 2011 10 Copies & Reading Guide Beginning where The Hummingbird’s Daughter left off, Queen of America finds young Teresita Urrea, beloved healer and “Saint of Cabora,” with her father in 1892 … Continue reading →

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Book Club Kit: State of Wonder

Posted on November 20, 2012 by

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett First Published: 2011 6 Copies & Reading Guide A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh journeys into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent … Continue reading →

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Book Club Kit: Doc

Posted on March 24, 2012 by

Doc by Mary Doria Russell First Published: 2011 10 Copies & Reading Guide Born to the life of an educated Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday is given a choice at the age of twenty-two: die within months in Atlanta … Continue reading →

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