2020/2021

Shown below are the archival book picks for the 2020/2021 season. The discussion date for each book is noted below its title.

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Under the streets of London there's a place most people could never even dream of.  A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in a...
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Author : Neil Gaiman
Published : 2008-08-01
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
ISBN : 9780061793059
Pages : 370
Chosen by : Wanda
Meeting : 2020-09-14 (meeting #44)
Neverwhere
2020-09-14 (meeting #44)
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Frances Price — tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature — is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy...
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Author : Patrick deWitt
Published : 2018-08-28
Publisher : House Of Anansi Press Inc
ISBN : 9781487004835
Pages : 248
Chosen by : Val
Meeting : 2020-10-05 (meeting #45)
French Exit
2020-10-05 (meeting #45)
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Set on the high ground at the heart of Cape Ann, the village of Dogtown is peopled by widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, whores, free Africans, a...
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Author : Anita Diamant
Published : 2005
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN : 9780743225748
Pages : 288
Chosen by : Julie
Meeting : 2020-11-02 (meeting #46)
The Last Days of Dogtown
2020-11-02 (meeting #46)
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One of the most celebrated, beloved, and enduring actors of our time, Sally Field has an infectious charm that has captivated the nation for more than...
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Author : Sally Field
Published : 2018-09-18
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN : 9781538763049
Pages : 332
Chosen by : Sue
Meeting : 2020-12-07 (meeting #47)
In Pieces
2020-12-07 (meeting #47)
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Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues,...
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Author : Susanna Clarke
Published : 2020-09-15
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN : 9781635575644
Pages : 226
Chosen by : Tom
Meeting : 2021-01-04 (meeting #48)
Piranesi
2021-01-04 (meeting #48)
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Day One The Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the earth like a neutron bomb. News reports put the mortality rate at over 99%. Week Two ...
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Author : Emily St. John Mandel
Published : 2014-09-09
Publisher : HarperAvenue
ISBN : 9781443434881
Pages : 337
Chosen by : Kirsten
Meeting : 2021-02-01 (meeting #49)
Station Eleven
2021-02-01 (meeting #49)
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Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon of her generation, a fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita, Kansas, to ...
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Author : Laura Moriarty
Published : 2012-06-05
Publisher : Riverhead Books
ISBN : 9781101585658
Pages : 425
Chosen by : Cheryl
Meeting : 2021-03-01 (meeting #50)
The Chaperone
2021-03-01 (meeting #50)
Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully ...
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Author : Gail Honeyman
Published : 2017-04-10
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
ISBN : 9780008172138
Pages : 368
Chosen by : Ceri
Meeting : 2021-04-12 (meeting #51)
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
2021-04-12 (meeting #51)
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names.  In San Francisco the I Ching is as commo...
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Author : Philip K. Dick
Published : 2004-08-03
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN : 9780547601205
Pages : 367
Chosen by : Gwen
Meeting : 2021-05-03 (meeting #52)
The Man in the High Castle
2021-05-03 (meeting #52)
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Young Rachel Kalama, growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1890s, is part of a big, loving Hawaiian family, and dreams of seeing the far-off lands tha...
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Author : Alan Brennert
Published : 2010-04-01
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN : 9780312304355
Pages : 402
Chosen by : Nancy
Meeting : 2021-06-07 (meeting #53)
Moloka’i
2021-06-07 (meeting #53)
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For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast.  So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andr...
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Author : Delia Owens
Published : 2018-08-14
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN : 9780735219113
Pages : 323
Chosen by : Nikki
Meeting : 2021-07-05 (meeting #54)
Where the Crawdads Sing
2021-07-05 (meeting #54)
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Told through one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation--New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow--Radicalized is a timely novel c...
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Author : Cory Doctorow
Published : 2019-03-19
Publisher : Head of Zeus Ltd
ISBN : 9781789541106
Pages : 308
Chosen by : Cayce
Meeting : 2021-08-09 (meeting #55) ***NOTE: Present your book nominations for our 2021/2022 session.***
Radicalized
2021-08-09 (meeting #55) ***NOTE: Present your book nominations for our 2021/2022 session.***