Book Club bags are available for the following titles:
NEW TITLES…
The Art of Racing in the Rain – Garth Stein
Devil in the White City – Erik Larson
A Discover of Witches – Deborah Harkness
In the Garden of Beasts – Erik Larson
Language of Flowers – Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Nothing to Envy – Barbara Demick
One Thousand White Women – Jim Fergus
State of Wonder – Ann Patchett
Still Missing – Chevy Stevens
COMPLETE LIST…
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TITLE |
AUTHOR |
DESCRIPTION |
MAIN SETTING |
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| American Wife | Curtis Sittenfeld | Fiction | First lady looks back at her life | United States |
| 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 |
| The Art of Racing in the Rain | Garth Stein | Fiction | Nearing the end of his life, Enzo the dog tries to help his family to heal over a custody battle. | Seattle, WA |
| Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress | Sijie Dai | Fiction | Two city boys sent to a remote mountain village for reeducation | China |
| Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | Fiction | Relationships between hostages of a terrorist takeover | South America |
| Believe Me | Nina Killham | Fiction | A 13 year old boy with questions about religion | Maryland |
| Birth House | Ami McKay | Fiction | Young woman learns about midwifery in an isolated village | Nova Scotia |
| Chasing Windmills | Catherine Ryan Hyde | Fiction | A modern day West Side Story | Mojave Desert |
| Breaking Night | Liz Murray | NonFic | From runaway to Harvard student the memoir of growing up the neglected child of drug addicts | Bronx |
| Chosen By a Horse | Susan Richards | Non Fic | Story of a woman and the horse that chose her | New York |
| 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 |
| Don’t Breathe a Word | Jennifer McMahon | Fiction | His older sister disappeared and now 15 years later unexplained occurrences begin. | Vermont |
| Devil in the White City | Erik Larson | NonFic | 1893 World’s Fair and a cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims. | Illinois |
| A Discovery of Witches | Deborah Harkness | Fiction | Diana Bishop a young scholar & descendant of witches discovers an enchanted alchemical manuscript. | England |
| Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight | Alexandra Fuller | Bio | Author remembers her African childhood | Zimbabwe |
| Eye Contact | Cammie McGovern | Fiction | Only witness to a murder is an autistic boy | United States |
| Faithful Place |
Tana French | Fiction | A suitcase case shows up 22 years later, belonging to a detective’s first love. | England |
| Firefly Lane | Kristin Hannah | Fiction | Three decades of friendship between two women | Seattle, WA |
| 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 |
| Friday Night Knitting Club | Kate Jacobs | Fiction | Weekly knitting group of friends evolves into a family | Manhattan |
| 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 |
| 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,WA |
| I’d know you anywhere | Laura Lippman | Fiction | Death row prisoner contacts the woman he kidnapped when she was 15. | Virginia |
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot | Bio | The story of a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells were vital to the polio vaccine. | United States |
| In the Garden of Beasts | Erik Larson | NonFic | William Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany. | Germany |
| The Language of Flowers |
Vanessa Diffenbaugh | Fiction | Story of a young woman whose gift of flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her past. | San Francisco, CA |
The Lonely Polygamist |
Brady Udall | Fiction | Golden Richards, husband to 4 wives, father to 28 children is having a midlife crisis. | Utah |
| 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 |
| The Last Child | John Hart | Fiction | 13 year boy searches for his missing twin and another young girl | North Carolina |
| Love Wife | Jen Gish | Fiction | Different perspectives on how a new nanny impacts a family | United States |
| Next Thing on My List | Jill Smolinski | Fiction | Passenger dies following an accident, and the driver completes her to do list | United States |
| Nothing to Envy | Barbara Demick | NonFic | Follows the lives of six north Korean citizens over fifteen years. | North Korea |
| One Thousand White Women | Jim Fergus | Fiction | An Indian request in 1854 for 1000 white brides to ensure peace is secretly approved by the govt in this alternate history novel. | United States |
| Out Stealing Horses | Per Petterson | Fiction | 67 year old man moves to isolated cabin reflecting back to the summer of his youth | Norway |
| The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake | Aimee Bender | Fiction | Young girl learns she can sense others emotions through food. | California |
| Peace Like a River | L.L. Enger | Fiction | The story an of eleven year old boy who has reasons to believe in miracles | Minnesota |
| Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | Fiction | 1959, a Baptist family goes on a mission to the Congo | Congo |
| The Rain Before It Falls | Jonathan Coe | Fiction | An elderly woman records her memories addressing them to a cousin | England |
| Red Tent | Anita Diamant | Fiction | The story of the world of Old Testament women, told by a Dinah | Egypt |
| Resistance | Owen Sheers | Fiction | An alternative history in which German soldiers move into an isolated valley | Wales |
| Sarah’s Key | Tatiana de Rosnay | Fiction | Writing about the roundup of Paris Jews leads to long hidden family secrets | France |
| Skeletons at the Feast | Christopher Bohjalian | Fiction | 1945, small group of people cross Poland looking for freedom | Poland |
| Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Lisa See | Fiction | In a remote Chinese village, women exchange secrets through silk fans | China |
| State of Wonder |
Ann Patchett | Fiction | Researcher for a pharmaceutical company journeys into the Amazon delta to check on a field team that has been silent for 2 years. | South America |
| Stern Man | Elizabeth Gilbert | Fiction | A resilient woman brings an end to an age old fishing feud | Maine |
| Still Missing | Chevy Stevens | Fiction | Real estate agent is abducted to a remote mountain cabin. | British Columbia |
| The Third Angel | Alice Hoffman | Fiction | An examination of three women at different crossroads of their lives | London |
| The Thirteenth Tale | Diane Setterfield | Fiction | Author travels to Yorkshire to meet the subject of the biography she is writing | England |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | Fiction | Two women brought together by war and fate | Afghanistan |
| 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 |
| Time Traveler’s Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | Fiction | A time traveler keeps meeting his love throughout her lifetime | United States |
| 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 |
| Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen | Fiction | Young man joins the circus and falls in love with a married woman and an elephant | United States |
| The Weight of Silence | Heather Gudenkauf | Fiction | Two families awake to find their little girls have gone missing during the night | Iowa |
| The Welsh Girl | Peter Ho Davies | Fiction | Young girl falls in love with a German POW during WW II | Wales |
| The Whistling Season | Ivan Doig | Fiction | A housekeeper and her brother impact a family and a town in the 1900s | Montana |
| The Widower’s Tale | Julia Glass | Fiction | A 70 year old man routine is interrupted when he allows a preschool to use his barn. | Massachusetts |