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[2009]
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Anne Rosenbaum leads a life of quiet Los Angeles privilege, the wife of Hollywood executive Howard Rosenbaum and mother of their seventeen-year-old son, Sam. Years ago Anne and Howard met studying litera-ture at Columbiashe, the daughter of a British diplo-mat from London, he a boy from an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. Now on sleek blue California evenings, Anne attends halogen-lit movie premieres on the arm of her powerful husband....
82) A novel idea
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Norah forms a book club and falls in love with James, one of the club's members.
83) Summer reading
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Three women in a summer book discussion group in the Hamptons identify with the heroines of novels by Trollope, Flaubert, and Charlotte Bront.︠ But can reading really influence the choices people make--and even change the course of lives?
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Book club mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Amy-Faye Johnson and her fellow book club members imitate Poirot as they try to prove Amy's brother's innocence in the murder of his business partner, an investigation during which the truth becomes stranger than fiction.
85) Cover story
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"It's time to celebrate when club member Molly Mathews's childhood friend, Teensy Coldicutt, moves back to town--complete with a published book. But as the club plans Teensy's book launch, Molly is attacked and Teensy's books are stolen. Who would be so desperate for 150 copies of a sexy novel written by an elderly widow? Then Ashton Corners is hit with another shock when Teensy's publisher turns up dead--and fellow club member and former police chief...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Estelle sets up a book group in order to increase custom to her struggling small town cafe, what follows is more scandalous than she could have ever imagined ... As the first book club meeting flounders, Estelle suggests a spot of erotica to spice up the members lives --with trepidation the decision is accepted. Inspired by their sizzling reads, this group of shy suburban readers shake off their inhibitions and discover a new side to themselves with...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
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"Hollis Morgan is a survivor. She married young to flee an unloving family and ended up in prison, paying the price for her charming husband's embezzlement. After finally obtaining a California judicial pardon, Hollis has climbed the ladder from paralegal to probate attorney at a respected law firm in the Bay Area. Unfortunately her first two cases are trials by fire. One involves a vicious family dispute over a disinheritance of family members who...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"The quintessential guide to creating a book club for parents and kids, and raising children into book-loving adults, plus tons of curated book lists"--
In 2008 a group of first grade moms formed a neighborhood book club with their kids. It was a simple, if ambitious idea to cultivate their kids' love of reading as well as their first real friendships-- and gave the parents an excuse to get together. Here they discuss how the book club helps the...
Pub. Date
2015
Description
The 2016 edition not only provides over 75 book recommendations, but it offers three sections: fiction, nonfiction, and young adult. There are books by authors and publishers you will recognize as well as books by debut authors and independent presses from California to Colorado to New York. There are translated works, memoirs (including a grpahic novel memoir), and some books that will be published in 2016.
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Ashton Corners Book Club mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Reading specialist and mystery book lover Lizzie Turner was excited for the first meeting of the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straws Society hosted in Molly Matthews's old Southern mansion. But she didn't expect the gathering to become the scene of an actual murder. A stranger has been shot and nobody knows who the victim is, or how Molly's antique gun came to be used as the murder weapon.
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Thursday Murder Club novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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"Never underestimate the power of a woman with a shop full of books Massachusetts, 1954. With bags packed alongside her heavy heart, Alice Campbell escaped halfway across the country and found herself in front of a derelict building tucked among the cobblestone streets of Cambridge. She turns it into the enchanting bookshop of her dreams, knowing firsthand the power of books to comfort the brokenhearted. The Cambridge Bookshop soon becomes a haven...
94) Hauntley girls
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
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"Vampirina and her mom decide to start a Mother-Daughter Book Club. For their first club meeting, they choose a book everyone can really sink their teeth into--only the book is magical and casts a spell on the humans. Vee and her mom will have to work together to break the spell"--
95) A novel approach
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Rose Cottage book club volume 10
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
When Easter hits the island, bookshop owner Meagan Poe signs up to participate in Nantucket’s Easter egg hunt. But on the big day, an unexpected visitor dredges up feelings of homesickness that Meagan can’t shake. Her boyfriend, Luke Harris, offers a solution to the problem, but soon Meagan wonders if agreeing to his plan was the right thing to do. Meanwhile, Avery Sheridan’s life gets complicated when a new real estate client waltzes into her...
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
This hip, witty, and occasionally irreverent guide to creating book club get-togethers is based on Gardner's popular newsletter. It features fiction and nonfiction selections, ranging from timeless classics to beach reads, and recipes for easy-to-transport cocktails, finger foods, sit-down dinners and snacks, all organized by month.
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Ashton Corners Book Club Mystery volume 5
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Bob Miller, retired police chief and member of the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straws Society, is stunned by the arrival of his twenty-one-year-old granddaughter, Darla, whom he has never seen. Bob has been estranged from his own daughter for decades and hopes to make up for his absence in Darla���s life. But some of the ladies of the book club find their Southern hospitality strained as they question the motives behind this sudden...
99) Banned book club
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Pub. Date
2020
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"The autobiography of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime, and how she defied state censorship. When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. This was during South Korea's Fifth Republic, a military regime that entrenched its power through censorship, torture, and the murder of protestors. In this charged political climate, Hyun Sook sought refuge in the comfort of books. When the...