2024/2025

Shown below are the book picks for our current 2024/2025 season. The discussion date for each book is noted below its title.

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“A vibrant and moving debut that takes to heart our deferred dreams and the value of remaining hopeful.”—Diane Marie Brown, author of Black Cand...
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Author : Maura Cheeks
Published : 2024-02-14
Publisher : Random House Publishing
ISBN : 9780593598306
Pages : 320
Chosen by : Luisa
Meeting : 2024-09-04 (meeting #92)
Acts of Forgiveness
2024-09-04 (meeting #92)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest ...
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Author : Katherine Arden
Published : 2024-02-13
Publisher : Random House Publishing
ISBN : 9780593128268
Pages : 336
Chosen by : Tom
Meeting : 2024-10-02 (meeting #93)
The Warm Hands of Ghosts
2024-10-02 (meeting #93)
**NATIONAL BESTSELLER Love, betrayal, and a secret war: the untold story of two elite agents, one Canadian, one British, who became one of the most...
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Author : Nahlah Ayed
Published : 2024-05-28
Publisher : Viking
ISBN : 9780735242074
Pages : 380
Chosen by : Sue
Meeting : 2024-11-06 (meeting #94)
The War We Won Apart
2024-11-06 (meeting #94)
Carly Butler was a lively, imaginative child being raised by her strong and independent mom, DJ, in 1990s Montana. They were a dynamic duo, working on...
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Author : Carly Butler
Published : 2024-03-01
Publisher : Caitlin Press
ISBN : 9781773861326
Pages : 246
Chosen by : Tess
Meeting : 2024-12-04 (meeting #95)
Apocalypse Child
2024-12-04 (meeting #95)
From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable insider expertise—State of Te...
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Author : Hilary Rodham Clinton & Louise Penny
Published : 2021-10-12
Publisher : St Martin's Press
ISBN : 9781982173692
Pages : 512
Chosen by : Val
Meeting : 2025-01-08 (meeting #96)
State of Terror
2025-01-08 (meeting #96)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A novel of orphans and widows, terror and hope, and the relationships that hold us together when things fall apart. With mur...
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Author : Beth Powning
Published : 2021-05-25
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf Canada
ISBN : 9780735280038
Pages : 320
Chosen by : Cheryl
Meeting : 2025-02-05 (meeting #97)
The Sister’s Tale
2025-02-05 (meeting #97)
Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize A fresh, unique work of metafiction that follows a graphic novelist who loses control of his own narrat...
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Author : Kevin Chong
Published : 2023-04-18
Publisher : Atria Books
ISBN : 9781668005538
Pages : 224
Chosen by : Wanda
Meeting : 2025-03-05 (meeting #98)
The Double Life of Benson Yu
2025-03-05 (meeting #98)
A haunting literary debut set in the forbidding remote tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Traditions that have lasted for centuries, both br...
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Author : Jamil Ahmad
Published : 2011-10-13
Publisher : Riverhead Books
ISBN : 9781101547953
Pages : 256
Chosen by : Gwen
Meeting : 2025-04-01 (meeting #99)
The Wandering Falcon
2025-04-01 (meeting #99)
An adrenaline-fueled story of lives upended and transformed by an unprecedented catastrophe. To all appearances, the Larsen-Hall family has everyth...
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Author : Bruce Holsinger
Published : 2022-07-05
Publisher : Riverhead Books
ISBN : 9780593189733
Pages : 448
Chosen by : Cheryl
Meeting : 2025-05-07 (meeting #100)
The Displacements
2025-05-07 (meeting #100)
Winner, 2024 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man...
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Author : Patrick deWitt
Published : 2024-07-04
Publisher : House of Anansi Press
ISBN : 9781487009922
Pages : 286
Chosen by : Val
Meeting : 2025-06-04 (meeting #101)
The Librarianist
2025-06-04 (meeting #101)
A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The ent...
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Author : Michael J. Fox
Published : 2020-11-17
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN : 9781250265623
Pages : 255
Chosen by : Sue
Meeting : 2025-07-02 (meeting #102)
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
2025-07-02 (meeting #102)
Wow – another great reading season completed!  Please take some time to consider your book nominations and join us at our August 6th meeting to pre...
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Published : 2025-08-06
Book Nominations for 2025/2026
2025-08-06 (meeting #103)