2021/2022

Shown below are the archival book picks for the 2021/2022 season. The discussion date for each book is noted below its title.

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With his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes the stage.  It's Wo...
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Author : Wayne Grady
Published : 2013-07-30
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN : 9780385677677
Pages : 330
Chosen by : Tom
Meeting : 2021-09-13 (meeting #56)
Emancipation Day
2021-09-13 (meeting #56)
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One day, the mother was a mother, but then one night, she was quite suddenly something else... In this blazingly smart and voracious debut, an arti...
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Author : Rachel Yoder
Published : 2021-07-20
Publisher : Penguin Random House
ISBN : 9780385546829
Pages : 256
Chosen by : Cayce
Meeting : 2021-10-04 (meeting #57)
Nightbitch
2021-10-04 (meeting #57)
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After years of trying to make it as a writer in 1990s New York City, James Smale finally sells his novel to an editor at a major publishing house: non...
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Author : Steven Rowley
Published : 2020-06-30
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN : 9780525537977
Pages : 310
Chosen by : Ceri
Meeting : 2021-11-01 (meeting #58)
The Editor
2021-11-01 (meeting #58)
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1940.  As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best...
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Author : Kate Quinn
Published : 2021-03-09
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
ISBN : 9780062943484
Pages : 624
Chosen by : Nancy
Meeting : 2021-12-06 (meeting #59)
The Rose Code
2021-12-06 (meeting #59)
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Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession, made to his grandson, of a man the narrator refers to only as “my grandfather".  It is a tale of madne...
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Author : Michael Chabon
Published : 2016-11-22
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN : 9781443418706
Pages : 430
Chosen by : Val
Meeting : 2022-01-10 (meeting #60)
Moonglow
2022-01-10 (meeting #60)
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A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a ...
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Author : Kent Haruf
Published : 2000-08-22
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN : 9780375705854
Pages : 301
Chosen by : Cheryl
Meeting : 2022-02-07 (meeting #61)
Plainsong
2022-02-07 (meeting #61)
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Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barel...
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Author : Michelle Good
Published : 2020-04-14
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN : 9781443459181
Pages : 293
Chosen by : Kirsten
Meeting : 2022-03-07 (meeting #62)
Five Little Indians
2022-03-07 (meeting #62)
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Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, John Steinbeck created a “Camelot” on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey, Cal...
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Author : John Steinbeck
Published : 1997-06-01
Publisher : Bantam Books
ISBN : 9780140187403
Pages : 208
Chosen by : Maggie
Meeting : 2022-04-04 (meeting #63)
Tortilla Flat
2022-04-04 (meeting #63)
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Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action...
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Author : Louise Erdrich
Published : 2016-08-23
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN : 9780060837051
Pages : 389
Chosen by : Wanda
Meeting : 2022-05-02 (meeting #64)
The Master Butchers Singing Club
2022-05-02 (meeting #64)
Lydia Quixano Pérez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco.  She runs a bookstore.  She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husba...
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Author : Jeanine Cummins
Published : 2020-01-21
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN : 9781250754080
Pages : 400
Chosen by : Carly
Meeting : 2022-06-01 (meeting #65)
American Dirt
2022-06-01 (meeting #65)
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Ben Robe is a retired political science professor who has returned to his reserve at Moccasin Lake to live out his life in relative peace and solitude...
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Author : Harold Johnson
Published : 2011-09-01
Publisher : Thistledown Press
ISBN : 9781897235898
Pages : 301
Chosen by : Gwen
Meeting : 2022-07-06 (meeting #66)
The Cast Stone
2022-07-06 (meeting #66)
Phew!  Hot, hot days are here and it's time to prepare for the cooler season to come.  There's no book pick for this month, but please join us to pr...
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Published : 2022-08-03
Book Nominations for 2022/2023
2022-08-03 (meeting #67)