HomeBook Club bags are available for the following titles:
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TITLE |
AUTHOR |
DESCRIPTION
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MAIN SETTING | |
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American Wife |
Curtis Sittenfeld |
Fiction |
First lady looks back at her life |
United States |
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Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons |
Lorna Landvik |
Fiction |
Personal drama of five friends |
Minnesota |
| Animal, Vegetable, Miracle:
A Year of Food Life |
Barbara Kingsolver |
NonFic |
Family’s adventure moving to a farm in Southern Appalachia |
Appalachian |
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Arc of Justice |
Kevin Boyle |
NonFic |
A saga of race, civil rights and murder in the Jazz Age. |
Detroit |
| Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress |
Sijie Dai |
Fiction |
Two city boys sent to a remote mountain village for reeducation |
China |
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Bel Canto |
Ann Patchett |
Fiction |
Relationships between hostages of a terrorist takeover |
South America |
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Believe Me |
Nina Killham |
Fiction |
A 13 year old boy with questions about religion |
Maryland |
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Birth House |
Ami McKay |
Fiction |
Young woman learns about midwifery in an isolated village |
Nova Scotia |
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Breaking Night |
Liz Murray |
Bio |
Memoir of a young lady who was living on the streets at 15, then attended Harvard. |
United States |
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Chasing Windmills |
Catherine Ryan Hyde |
Fiction |
A modern day West Side Story |
Mojave Desert |
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Chosen By a Horse |
Susan Richards |
Non Fic |
Story of a woman and the horse that chose her |
New York |
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Cleopatra: A Life |
Stacy Schiff |
Bio |
The life of one of the most intriguing woman in the history of the world |
Egypt |
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter |
Tom Franklin |
Fiction |
Three crimes shake up a quaint Mississippi town to its core. |
Mississippi |
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Crow Lake |
Mary Lawson |
Fiction |
A family struggles to stay together after the parents death | Ontario, Canada |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog
in the Night Time |
Mark Haddon |
Fiction |
Autistic boy tries to find out what happened to his dog |
England |
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Cutting For Stone |
Abraham Verghese |
Fiction |
Two brothers driven apart by their love for the same woman. |
Ethiopia |
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Don’t Breathe a Word |
Jennifer McMahon |
Fiction |
His older sister disappeared and now 15 years later unexplained occurrences begin. |
Vermont |
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Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight |
Alexandra Fuller |
Bio |
Author remembers her African childhood |
Zimbabwe |
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Eye Contact |
Cammie McGovern |
Fiction |
Only witness to a murder is an autistic boy |
United States |
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Faithful Place |
Tana French |
Fiction |
A suitcase case shows up 22 years later, belonging to a detective’s first love. |
England |
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Firefly Lane |
Kristin Hannah |
Fiction |
Three decades of friendship between two women | Seattle,
Washington |
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Forgery of Venus |
Michael Gruber |
Fiction |
A desperate artist recreates a crumbling fresco, that is a forgery |
Europe |
| French By Heart: An American’s Family Adventures is La Belle, Fran |
Rebecca Ramsey |
Non Fic |
An American family moves to the French countryside |
France |
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Friday Night Knitting Club |
Kate Jacobs |
Fiction |
Weekly knitting group of friends evolves into a family |
Manhattan |
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Girl in Hyacinth Blue |
Susan Vreeland |
Fiction |
A supposed Vermeer painting is traced back to the moment of its inspiration |
Europe |
| Good Good Pig: the Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood |
Sy Montgomery |
Non Fic |
A rescued piglet brings a community together | New Hampshire |
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The Help |
Kathryn Stockett |
Fiction |
Three woman change their life, sharing their experiences as maids |
Mississippi |
| Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet |
Jamie Ford |
Fiction |
Chinese American man remembers his childhood during WW II | Seattle,
Washington |
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i’d know you anywhere |
Laura Lippman |
Fiction |
Death row prisoner contacts the woman he kidnapped when she was 15. |
Virginia |
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The Kitchen House |
Kathleen Grissom |
Fiction |
Seven year old Lavina comes to work at a tobacco plantation with the kitchen slaves. |
Southern US |
| The Immortal Life of Hentrietta Lacks |
Rebecca Skloot |
Bio |
The story of a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells were vital to the polio vaccine. |
United States |
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Little Bee |
Chris Cleave |
Fiction |
Friendship between two disparate strangers – a London widow & an illegal refuge. | Nigeria
England |
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The Lonely Polygamist |
Brady Udall |
Fiction |
Golden Richards, husband to 4 wives, father to 28 children is having a midlife crisis. |
Utah |
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Love in the Time of Cholera |
Gabriel García Márquez |
Fiction |
Rejected at a young age, a man tries to try to heal his broken heart | Caribbean
seaport |
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The Last Child |
John Hart |
Fiction |
13 year boy searches for his missing twin and another young girl |
North Carolina |
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Love Wife |
Jen Gish |
Fiction |
Different perspectives on how a new nanny impacts a family |
United States |
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Next Thing on My List |
Jill Smolinski |
Fiction |
Passenger dies following an accident, and the driver completes her to do list |
United States |
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Out Stealing Horses |
Per Petterson |
Fiction |
67 year old man moves to isolated cabin reflecting back to the summer of his youth |
Norway |
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake |
Aimee Bender |
Fiction |
Young girl learns she can sense others emotions through food. |
California |
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Peace Like a River |
L.L. Enger |
Fiction |
The story an of eleven year old boy who has reasons to believe in miracles |
Minnesota |
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Poisonwood Bible |
Barbara Kingsolver |
Fiction |
1959, a Baptist family goes on a mission to the Congo |
Congo |
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The Rain Before It Falls |
Jonathan Coe |
Fiction |
An elderly woman records her memories addressing them to a cousin |
England |
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Red Tent |
Anita Diamant |
Fiction |
The story of the world of Old Testament women, told by a Dinah |
Egypt |
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Resistance |
Owen Sheers |
Fiction |
An alternative history in which German soldiers move into an isolated valley |
Wales |
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Room |
Emma Donoghue |
Fiction |
5 year old boy narrates about his life growing up in a single room with his Ma. | |
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Sarah’s Key |
Tatiana de Rosnay |
Fiction |
Writing about the roundup of Paris Jews leads to long hidden family secrets |
France |
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Skeletons at the Feast |
Christopher Bohjalian |
Fiction |
1945, small group of people cross Poland looking for freedom |
Poland |
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
Lisa See |
Fiction |
In a remote Chinese village, women exchange secrets through silk fans |
China |
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Stern Man |
Elizabeth Gilbert |
Fiction |
A resilient woman brings an end to an age old fishing feud |
Maine |
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Still Alice |
Lisa Genova |
Fiction |
Alice’s life is turned upside down when she succombs to a degenerative brain disease. | |
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The Third Angel |
Alice Hoffman |
Fiction |
An examination of three women at different crossroads of their lives |
London |
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The Thirteenth Tale |
Diane Setterfield |
Fiction |
Author travels to Yorkshire to meet the subject of the biography she is writing |
England |
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A Thousand Splendid Suns |
Khaled Hosseini |
Fiction |
Two women brought together by war and fate |
Afghanistan |
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Three Cups of Tea |
Greg Mortenson |
Non Fic |
After being saved by villages, one man promises to return and build schools for their children |
Pakistan |
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Time Traveler’s Wife |
Audrey Niffenegger |
Fiction |
A time traveler keeps meeting his love throughout her lifetime |
United States |
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The Virgin of Small Plains |
Nancy Pickard |
Fiction |
Two decades after finding a frozen corpse, a
young man is determined to solve the crime |
Kansas |
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Water for Elephants |
Sara Gruen |
Fiction |
Young man joins the circus and falls in love with a married woman and an elephant |
United States |
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The Weight of Silence |
Heather Gudenkauf |
Fiction |
Two families awake to find their little girls have gone missing during the night |
Iowa |
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The Welsh Girl |
Peter Ho Davies |
Fiction |
Young girl falls in love with a German POW
during WW II |
Wales |
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The Whistling Season |
Ivan Doig |
Fiction |
A housekeeper and her brother impact a family and a town in the 1900s |
Montana |
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The Widower’s Tale |
Julia Glass |
Fiction |
A 70 year old man routine is interrupted when he allows a preschool to use his barn. |
Massachu |