2017/2018

Shown below are the archival book picks for the 2017/2018 season. The discussion date for each book is noted below its title.

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Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she...
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Author : Tatiana de Rosnay
Published : 2007-06-12
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN : 9780312370831
Pages : 329
Sarah’s Key
2017-10-02 (meeting #9)
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The American debut of an award-winning novel about a lady’s maid’s awakening as she journeys from the confines of Victorian England to the unchart...
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Author : Kate Pullinger
Published : 2011-01-04
Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN : 9781439195062
Pages : 272
The Mistress of Nothing
2017-09-05 (meeting #8)
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The art of love is never a science: Meet Don Tillman, a brilliant yet socially inept professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wif...
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Author : Graham Simsion
Published : 2013-10-01
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN : 9781476729107
Pages : 298
The Rosie Project
2017-11-06 (meeting #10)
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This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist's journey from the deserted and dusty mining towns of the American Southwest, to an antique fill...
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Author : Jeannette Walls
Published : 2010-02-04
Publisher : Virago
ISBN : 9780748115563
Pages : 348
The Glass Castle
2017-12-04 (meeting #11)
We've opted to cancel this month's meeting as some of us are away, a few others are ill with cold or flu ...and who wants to go out in today's bluster...
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(January meeting cancelled)
2018-01-08 (meeting #12) -- CANCELLED
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Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmaili...
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Author : Agatha Christie
Published : 2011-05-01
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN : 9780061763403
Pages : 265
Chosen by : Gwen
Meeting : 2018-02-05 (meeting #13)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
2018-02-05 (meeting #13)
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Alex Woods knows that he hasn't had the most conventional start in life. He knows that growing up with a clairvoyant single mother won't endear him...
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Author : Gavin Extence
Published : 2013-01-31
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
ISBN : 9781444765908
Pages : 416
Chosen by : Sue
Meeting : 2018-03-05 (meeting #14)
The Universe versus Alex Woods
2018-03-05 (meeting #14)
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The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped can...
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Author : Erin Morgenstern
Published : 20011-09-13
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN : 9780385534642
Pages : 384
Chosen by : Tom
Meeting : 2018-04-09 (meeting #15)
The Night Circus
2018-04-09 (meeting #15)
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Kimball (Kim) O'Hara is an Irish orphan who makes his living by begging and working small jobs on the streets of Lahore in colonial India during the l...
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Author : Rudyard Kipling
Published : 2010-05-08
Publisher : Durrant Publishing
ISBN : 9781905946143
Pages : 379
Chosen by : Nancy
Meeting : 2018-05-07 (meeting #16)
Kim (Illustrated by J. Lockwood Kipling)
2018-05-07 (meeting #16)
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Tragedy strikes a Native community when the Hill family’s handsome seventeen-year-old son, Jimmy, mysteriously vanishes at sea. Left behind to cope ...
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Author : Eden Robinson
Published : 2011-10-05
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN : 9780307363930
Pages : 344
Chosen by : Wanda
Meeting : 2018-06-04 (meeting #17)
Monkey Beach
2018-06-04 (meeting #17)
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First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror.  It is the story of four...
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Author : Shirley Jackson
Published : 2006-11-28
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN : 9781101530641
Pages : 208
Chosen by : Gwen
Meeting : 2018-07-09 (meeting #18)
The Haunting of Hill House
2018-07-09 (meeting #18)
July is a "free read" month at the close of our 2017/2018 reading season.  For the next meeting on 2018 August 13 , please present your book suggesti...
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Published : 2018-08-13
Book Nominations for 2018/2019
2018-08-13 (meeting #19)