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Jonathan Trumbull Library Book Group
Retrospective Book Discussion List 1998-2009
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AUTHOR |
TITLE |
GENRE |
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1998-1999 |
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Sept. 1998 |
Wells, Rebecca |
Divine Secrets of
the Ya-Ya Sisterhood |
Fiction |
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Oct. 1998 |
Godwin, Gail |
Father
Melancholy’s Daughter |
Fiction |
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Nov. 1998 |
McCourt, Frank |
Angela’s Ashes |
Memoir |
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Dec. 1998 |
Dallas, Sandra |
The Persian Pickle
Club |
Fiction |
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Jan. 1999 |
Bohjalian, Chris |
Midwives |
Fiction |
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Feb. 1999 |
McBride, James |
The Color of Water |
Memoir |
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March 1999 |
Golden, Arthur |
Memoirs of a
Geisha |
Fiction |
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April 1999 |
O’Brien, Tim |
In the Lake of the
Woods |
Fiction/Mystery |
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May 1999 |
Harr, Jonathan |
A Civil Action |
Nonfiction |
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June 1999 |
Karon, Jan |
At Home in Mitford |
Fiction |
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1999-2000 |
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Sept. 1999 |
Kingsolver,
Barbara |
Animal Dreams |
Fiction |
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Oct. 1999 |
Hayes, Melissa |
Diaries and
Journals presentation |
Nonfiction |
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Nov. 1999 |
Shreve, Anita |
The Weight of
Water |
Fiction |
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Dec. 1999 |
Albom, Mitch |
Tuesdays with
Morrie |
Nonfiction |
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Jan. 2000 |
Hamill, Pete |
Snow in August |
Fiction |
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Feb. 2000 |
Austen, Jane |
Pride and
Prejudice |
Fiction |
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March 2000 |
Bragg, Rick |
All Over But the
Shoutin’ |
Memoir |
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April 2000 |
Godwin, Gail |
Evensong (sequel
to Father Melancholy) |
Fiction |
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May 2000 |
Gilman, Charlotte
Perkins |
The Yellow
Wallpaper & Making a Change (short stories) |
Fiction |
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June 2000 |
Ogilvie, Elisabeth |
Waters on a Starry
Night |
Fiction |
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2000-2001 |
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Sept. 2000 |
Tan, Amy |
The Kitchen God’s
Wife |
Fiction |
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Oct. 2000 |
Berg, Elizabeth |
Durable Goods |
Fiction |
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Nov. 2000 |
Walker, Mildred |
Winter Wheat |
Fiction |
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Dec. 2000 |
Lindbergh, Anne
Morrow |
Gift from the Sea |
Nonfiction |
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Jan. 2001 |
Fitzgerald,
Penelope |
The Bookshop |
Fiction |
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Feb. 2001 |
DuMaurier, Daphne |
Rebecca |
Fiction |
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March 2001 |
Mayle, Peter |
A Year in Provence |
Nonfiction |
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April 2001 |
Gilmore, Mikal |
A Shot in the
Heart |
Nonfiction/Crime |
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May 2001 |
Flagg, Fannie |
Fried Green
Tomatoes |
Fiction |
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June 2001 |
Vreeland, Susan
and Chevalier, Tracy |
Girl in Hyacinth
Blue/Girl
with a Pearl Earring |
FictionFiction |
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2001-2002 |
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Sept. 2001 |
Landvik, Lorna |
Patty Jane’s House
of Curl |
Fiction |
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Oct. 2001 |
Diamant, Anita |
The Red Tent |
Fiction |
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Nov. 2001 |
Bronte, Charlotte |
Jane Eyre |
Fiction |
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Dec. 2001 |
Welty, Eudora |
Selection of short
stories |
Fiction |
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Jan. 2002 |
Cronin, A.J. |
The Green Years |
Fiction |
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Feb. 2002 |
Hurston, Zora
Neale |
Their Eyes Were
Watching God |
Fiction |
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March 2002 |
Goodwin, Doris
Kearns |
Wait Till Next
Year |
Memoir |
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April 2002 |
Irving, John |
Cider House Rules |
Fiction |
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May 2002 |
Codell, Esme Raji |
Educating Esme:
Diary of a Teacher’s First Year |
Memoir |
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June 2002 |
Lee, Harper |
To Kill a
Mockingbird |
Fiction |
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2002-2003 |
Sept. 2002
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Krakauer, Jon/
Mendelsohn, Jane |
Into the Wild /I
Was Amelia Earhart |
Nonfiction/Fiction |
Oct. 2002
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Fergus, Jim |
One Thousand White
Women: The Journals of May Dodd |
Fiction |
Nov. 2002
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Steinbeck, John |
Cannery
Row/Travels with Charley |
Fiction/Memoir |
Dec. 2002
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Hijuelos, Oscar |
Mr. Ives’
Christmas |
Fiction |
Jan. 2003
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Alexie, Sherman |
The Lone Ranger
and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven |
Fiction |
Feb. 2003
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Grisham, John |
A Painted House |
Fiction |
March 2003
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Hammett, Dashiell |
The Maltese Falcon
(FILM) |
Fiction |
April 2003
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Livesey, Margot |
GUEST AUTHOR EVENT
(Eva Moves the Furniture) |
Fiction |
May 2003
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Hillenbrand, Laura |
Seabiscuit: An
American Legend |
Nonfiction |
June 2003
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Makine, Andrei |
Dreams of My
Russian Summers |
Fiction |
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2003-2004
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Sept. 2003
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Bradbury, Ray |
Fahrenheit 451 |
Fiction |
Oct. 2003
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Smith, Betty |
A Tree Grows in
Brooklyn |
Fiction |
Nov. 2003
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Brooks,
Geraldine |
Nine Parts of
Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women |
Nonfiction |
Dec. 2003
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Harris, Joanne |
Chocolat (FILM) |
Fiction |
Jan. 2004
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Lamott, Anne |
Bird by Bird |
Nonfiction |
Feb. 2004
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Brooks,
Geraldine |
Year of Wonders |
Fiction |
March 2004
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Kidd, Sue Monk |
The Secret Life of
Bees |
Fiction |
April 2004
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Frankl, Viktor |
Man’s Search for
Meaning |
Nonfiction |
May 2004
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Law, Janice |
GUEST AUTHOR EVENT
(Voices, The Night Bus, The Lost Diaries of Iris Weed) |
Fiction, several
titles |
June 2004
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Dobie, Kathy |
The Only Girl in
the Car |
Nonfiction |
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2004-2005
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Sept. 2004
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Hosseini, Khaled |
Kite Runner (One
Book/One Region) |
Fiction |
Oct. 2004
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Cather, Willa |
My Antonia |
Fiction |
Nov. 2004
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Haddon, Mark |
The Curious
Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
Fiction |
Dec. 2004
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Russell, Bill |
Russell Rules: 11
Lessons on Leadership from the 20th Century’s Greatest Winner |
Nonfiction |
Jan. 2005
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Lethem, Jonathan |
Motherless
Brooklyn |
Fiction |
Feb. 2005
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Gaines, Ernest |
A Lesson Before
Dying |
Fiction |
March 2005
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De Bernieres,
Louis |
Corelli’s Mandolin |
Fiction |
April 2005
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Patchett, Ann |
Bel Canto |
Fiction |
May 2005
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Mueller, Marnie |
GUEST AUTHOR EVENT
(My Mother’s Island) |
Fiction |
June 2005
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Kimmel, Haven |
A Girl Named Zippy |
Memoir |
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2005-2006
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Sept. 2005
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Kidder, Tracy |
Mountains Beyond
Mountains (One Book/One Region) |
Nonfiction |
Oct. 2005
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Ondaatje, Michael |
Anil’s Ghost |
Fiction |
Nov. 2005
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Picoult, Jodi |
My Sister’s Keeper |
Fiction |
Dec. 2005
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Kotzwinkle,
William |
Fata Morgana |
Fiction |
Jan. 2006
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Wharton, Edith |
The Age of
Innocence |
Fiction |
Feb. 2006
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Jones, Edward P. |
The Known World |
Fiction |
March 2006
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Atwood, Margaret |
Alias Grace |
Fiction |
April 2006
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Kallos, Stephanie |
Broken for You |
Fiction |
May 2006
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Quindlen, Anna |
One True Thing |
Fiction |
June 2006
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Van de Wetering,
Janwillem |
Corpse on the Dike |
Fiction |
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2006-2007
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Sept. 2006
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Murphy, Louise |
The True Story of
Hansel and Gretel |
Fiction |
Oct. 2006
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Abu-Jaber, Diana
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The Language of
Baklava: A Memoir |
Memoir |
Nov. 2006
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Salinger, J. D. |
The Catcher in the
Rye |
Fiction |
Dec. 2006
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Kimmel, Haven |
She Got Up Off the
Couch |
Memoir |
Jan. 2007
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Doctorow, E. L.
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The Waterworks |
Fiction |
Feb. 2007
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Allende, Isabel |
The House of the
Spirits |
Fiction |
March 2007
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Hockenberry, John |
Moving Violations:
War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence |
Memoir |
April 2007
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Furst, Alan |
Blood of Victory |
Fiction |
May 2007
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Larson, Erik |
The Devil in the
White City |
Nonfiction |
June 2007
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MacLeod, Alistair |
No Great Mischief |
Fiction |
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2007-2008
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Sept. 2008
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Grande, Reyna |
Across a Hundred
Mountains |
Memoir |
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Oct. 2007 |
Hillerman, Tony |
Dance Hall of the
Dead |
Fiction |
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Nov. 2007 |
Tolan, Sandy |
The Lemon Tree |
Nonfiction |
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Dec. 2007 |
Hoffman, Alice |
Blackbird House |
Fiction |
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Jan. 2008 |
Lahiri, Jhumpa |
The Namesake |
Fiction |
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Feb. 2008 |
Lansing, Alfred |
Endurance:
Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Anarctic |
Nonfiction |
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March 2008 |
Nemirovsky, Irene |
Suite Francaise |
Fiction |
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April 2008 |
Patterson, Richard
North |
Balance of Power |
Fiction |
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May 2008 |
Reichl, Ruth |
Tender at the Bone |
Memoir |
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June 2008 |
Leonard, Mike |
The Ride of Our
Lives |
Memoir |
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July 2008 |
Gilbert, Elizabeth |
Eat, Pray, Love |
Memoir |
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2008-2009 |
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Sept. 2008 |
Dawson, George
and Glaubman, Richard |
Life Is So Good |
Memoir |
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Oct. 2008 |
Mortenson, Greg
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Three Cups of Tea:
One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations...One School at a
Time |
Nonfiction |
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Nov. 2008 |
Godwin, Peter
|
When a Crocodile
Eats the Sun: a Memoir of Africa |
Memoir |
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Dec. 2008 |
Dean, Debra |
The Madonnas of
Leningrad |
Fiction |
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Jan. 2009 |
The Freedom
Writers with Erin Gruwell |
The Freedom
Writers Diary |
Nonfiction |
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Feb. 2009 |
Patchett, Ann
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Run |
Fiction |
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March 2009 |
Livesey, Margot |
GUEST AUTHOR
EVENT: The House on Fortune Street |
Fiction |
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April 2009 |
Lynch, Jim |
The Highest Tide |
Fiction |
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May 2009 |
Lively, Penelope |
The Photograph |
Fiction |
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June 2009 |
Hamilton, Masha |
The Camel
Bookmobile |
Fiction |
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2009-2010 |
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September 2009 |
Benioff, David |
City of Thieves |
Fiction |
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October 2009 |
Mate, Ferenc |
The Hills of Tuscany |
Nonfiction |
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November 2009 |
Cleave, Chris |
Little Bee |
Fiction |
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December 2009 |
Baldacci, David |
Wish You Well |
Fiction |
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January 2010 |
Gibson, William |
Pattern Recognition |
Fiction |
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February 2010 |
Nelson, Sara |
So Many Books, So Little Time |
Nonfiction |
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March 2010 |
Sides, Hampton |
Ghost Soldiers |
Nonfiction |
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April 2010 |
Shaffer, Mary Ann & Annie Barrows |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
Fiction |
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May 2010 |
Vonnegut, Kurt |
Slaughterhouse-Five |
Fiction |
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June 2010 |
Lord, Caroline |
The Diary of a Village Library |
Nonfiction |
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2010-2011 |
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September 2010 |
McClure, Tori Murden |
A Pearl in the Storm |
Nonfiction |
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October 2010 |
Vincent, Peggy |
Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife |
Nonfiction |
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November 2010 |
Stockett, Kathryn |
The Help |
Fiction |
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December 2010 |
Lamb, Wally |
GUEST AUTHOR EVENT: Wishin' and Hopin':
A Christmas Story |
Fiction |
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January 2011 |
Smith, Martin Cruz |
Rose |
Fiction |
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February 2011 |
Trevor, William |
Felicia's Journey (also Film Night) |
Fiction |
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March 2011 |
Steinhauer, Olen |
The Bridget of Sighs |
Fiction |
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April 2011 |
LeClaire, Anne |
The Law of Bound Hearts |
Fiction |
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May 2011 |
Ziegelman, Jane |
97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five
Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement |
Nonfiction |
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June 2011 |
Burnett, Carol |
This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection |
Nonfiction |
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