2023/2024

Shown below are the book picks for our current 2023/2024 season. The discussion date for each book is noted below its title.

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book cover - Mad Honey
Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, rai...
[Book Details...]
Author : Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan
Published : 2022-10-04
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN : 9781984818393
Pages : 491
Chosen by : Luisa
Meeting : 2023-09-06 (meeting #80)
Mad Honey
2023-09-06 (meeting #80)
book cover - The Sentence
Louise Erdrich's novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minne...
[Book Details...]
Author : Louise Erdrich
Published : 2021-11-09
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN : 9780062671141
Pages : 356
Chosen by : Wanda
Meeting : 2023-10-04 (meeting #81)
The Sentence
2023-10-04 (meeting #81)
IMPORTANT NOTE: This book selection is a fundraiser for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada and PAH (Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension) Society. ...
[Book Details...]
Author : Carl Selzer
Published : 2023-07-26
Publisher : Amazon
ISBN : 9798851943300
Pages : 246
Chosen by : Wanda
Meeting : 2022-11-01 (meeting #82)
What the Hell Just Happened?
2022-11-01 (meeting #82)
book cover - The Clan of the Cave Bear
Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the ha...
[Book Details...]
Author : Jean M. Auel
Published : 2010-10-06
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN : 9780307767615
Pages : 887
Chosen by : Cheryl
Meeting : 2023-12-06 (meeting #83)
The Clan of the Cave Bear
2023-12-06 (meeting #83)
book cover - The Shepherd's Life
Old world met new when a shepherd in the English Lake District impulsively started a Twitter account. A routine cell phone upgrade left author James ...
[Book Details...]
Author : James Rebanks
Published : 2015-04-07
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN : 9781250060259
Pages : 279
Chosen by : Tess
Meeting : 2024-01-03 (meeting #84)
The Shepherd’s Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
2024-01-03 (meeting #84)
book cover - Memoirs and Misinformation
From movie star Jim Carrey and novelist Dana Vachon, a fearless and semi-autobiographical novel about acting, Hollywood, agents, celebrity, privilege,...
[Book Details...]
Author : Jim Carrey & Dana Vachon
Published : 2020-07-07
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN : 9780525655985
Pages : 231
Chosen by : Nancy
Meeting : 2020-02-07 (meeting #85)
Memoirs and Misinformation
2020-02-07 (meeting #85)
book cover - Outsider
Into the Wild meets Born to Run meets The Stranger in the Woods in a fascinating true story of a marathon-running hermit and a journalist’s quest to...
[Book Details...]
Author : Brett Popplewell
Published : 2023-04-25
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN : 9781443457866
Pages : 264
Chosen by : Val
Meeting : 2024-03-06 (meeting #86)
Outsider
2024-03-06 (meeting #86)
book cover - The Revels
The stage is set and the witch-hunt is about to begin… ‘I am no witch. I have not sold my soul to the devil for powers. What I am has never ope...
[Book Details...]
Author : Stacey Thomas
Published : 2023-07-20
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN : 9780008566678
Pages : 321
Chosen by : Tom
Meeting : 2024-04-03 (meeting #87)
The Revels
2024-04-03 (meeting #87)
book cover - When She Was Queen
“My father lost my mother one evening in a final round of gambling at the poker table,” writes the narrator of “When She Was Queen,” the title...
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Author : M.G. Vassanji
Published : 2010-03-05
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN : 9780307375162
Pages : 226
Chosen by : Sue
Meeting : 2024-05-01 (meeting #88)
When She Was Queen
2024-05-01 (meeting #88)
book cover - Lessons in Chemistry
A delight for readers of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, this blockbuster debut set in 1960s California features the singular voice of Elizabeth Zott, a s...
[Book Details...]
Author : Bonnie Gamus
Published : 2020-03-29
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN : 9780385697385
Pages : 403
Chosen by : Ceri
Meeting : 2024-06-05 (meeting #89)
Lessons in Chemistry
2024-06-05 (meeting #89)
book cover - Alice, I Think
Susan Juby’s acclaimed first novel is now available in an edition that’s all grown up. After years of home schooling, it’s time for Alice MacLe...
[Book Details...]
Author : Susan Juby
Published : 2014-07-29
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN : 9781443402538
Pages : 231
Chosen by : Gwen
Meeting : 2024-07-03 (meeting #90)
Alice, I think.
2024-07-03 (meeting #90)
cover - book selection
Here we are; another summer and another year of great reads ahead! Please ponder your choices for book nominations and join us at this meeting (August...
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Published : 2024-08-07
Book Nominations for 2024/2025
2024-08-07 (meeting #91)