2018/2019
Shown below are the archival book picks for the 2018/2019 season. The discussion date for each book is noted below its title.
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In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over...
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Published : 2009
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN : 9780385529228
Pages : 376
Chosen by : Cayce
Meeting : 2018-09-10 (meeting #20)
The Lost City of Z
2018-09-10 (meeting #20)
2018-09-10 (meeting #20)
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand...
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Published : 2016-09-06
Publisher : Penguin Random House
ISBN : 9780399564048
Pages : 465
Chosen by : Cheryl
Meeting : 2018-10-01 (meeting #21)
A Gentleman in Moscow
2018-10-01 (meeting #21)
2018-10-01 (meeting #21)
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sist...
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Published : 2011-04-26
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN : 9780062041272
Pages : 294
Chosen by : Gwen
Meeting : 2018-11-05 (meeting #22)
The Sisters Brothers
2018-11-05 (meeting #22)
2018-11-05 (meeting #22)
Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune is hoping a South American birding trip might hold some answers in his fugitive brother’s manslaughter case. But the...
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Published : 2017-03-11
Publisher : Dundurn Press
ISBN : 9781459735323
Pages : 376
Chosen by : Wanda
Meeting : 2018-12-03 (meeting #23)
A Shimmer of Hummingbirds
2018-12-03 (meeting #23)
2018-12-03 (meeting #23)
Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in th...
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Published : 2009-12-23
Publisher : Bantam / Random House
ISBN : 9780307573568
Pages : 256
Chosen by : Julie
Meeting : 2019-01-07 (meeting #24)
Into the Forest
2019-01-07 (meeting #24)
2019-01-07 (meeting #24)
Living on her family’s idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inquisitive, and precociously talented sixteen-year-...
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Published : 2015-10-19
Publisher : Atria Books
ISBN : 9781451649376
Pages : 512
Chosen by : Sonya
Meeting : 2019-02-04 (meeting #25)
The Lake House
2019-02-04 (meeting #25)
2019-02-04 (meeting #25)
Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betrayal, tyranny, family, and a conspiracy trying its d...
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Published : 2008-05-06
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN : 9780307269423
Pages : 320
Chosen by : Tom
Meeting : 2019-03-04 (meeting #26)
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
2019-03-04 (meeting #26)
2019-03-04 (meeting #26)
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition...
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Published : 2014-02-04
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN : 9780374710774
Pages : 208
Chosen by : Cayce
Meeting : 2019-04-01 (meeting #27)
Annihilation
2019-04-01 (meeting #27)
2019-04-01 (meeting #27)
Profoundly moving and gracefully told, PACHINKO follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the priz...
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Published : 2017-02-07
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN : 9781455563913
Pages : 496
Chosen by : Ceri
Meeting : 2019-05-06 (meeting #28)
Pachinko
2019-05-06 (meeting #28)
2019-05-06 (meeting #28)
Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. Owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for c...
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Published : 2017-07-06
Publisher : Canongate Books Ltd.
ISBN : 9781782118633
Pages : 324
Chosen by : Nikki
Meeting : 2019-06-03 (meeting #29)
How to Stop Time
2019-06-03 (meeting #29)
2019-06-03 (meeting #29)
Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated fro...
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Published : 2018-02-20
Publisher : Penguin Random House
ISBN : 9780399590511
Pages : 424
Chosen by : Ceri
Meeting : 2019-07-08 (meeting #30)
Educated
2019-07-08 (meeting #30)
2019-07-08 (meeting #30)
As Summer is now in full swing and and folks may be travelling about, we have July as a "free read" month with no designated book title. Put on your...
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Published : 2019-08-12
Book Nominations for 2019/2020
2019-08-12 (meeting #31)
2019-08-12 (meeting #31)