2017 Debut

Shown below are the archival book picks for the Fircrest Book Club’s inaugural 2017 Spring season.  The discussion date for each book is noted below its title.

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2017 February 1st marked the inaugural meeting of the Fircrest Road Book Club with eight members attending to discuss the meeting schedule, book selec...
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Published : 2017-02-01
Fircrest Road Book Club – Est. Feb 2017
2017-02-01 (meeting #1)
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Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn’t spoken for many years, comes to see h...
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Author : Elizabeth Strout
Published : 2016-01-12
Publisher : Penguin Random House
ISBN : 9780812989076
Pages : 240
My Name is Lucy Barton
2017-03-06 (meeting #2)
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A landmark new novel from Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird . Maycomb, Alabama. ...
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Author : Harper Lee
Published : 2015-07-14
Publisher : Penguin Random House UK
ISBN : 9781473535404
Pages : 180
Go Set a Watchman
2017-04-02 (meeting #3)
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An irresistibly joyful memoir of mothers and daughters, and the importance of home. When Lorna's great-grandfather, William Harvey, discovered ...
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Author : Lorna Goodison
Published : 2010-03-01
Publisher : Atlantic Books / Grove Atlantic Ltd
ISBN : 9781843549963
Pages : 288
From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island
2017-05-08 (meeting #4)
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Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world ...
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Author : Ray Bradbury
Published : 2011-11-29
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN : 9781439142677
Pages : 253
Fahrenheit 451
2017-06-05 (meeting #5)
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In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has ju...
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Author : Ruth Ware
Published : 2016-07-19
Publisher : Scout Press
ISBN : 9781501132940
Pages : 375
The Woman in Cabin 10
2017-07-10 (meeting #6)
July is a "free read" month with no designated book title, so enjoy the Summer break with a good book of your choosing.  If you wish, feel free to pr...
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Published : 2017-07-31
Book Nominations for 2017/2018
2017-07-31 (meeting #7)