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Book club discussion kit featuring Malibu rising: "Set against the backdrop of the Malibu surf culture of the 1980s this novel follows the daughter of a famous singer who, once she finds fame, must grapple with the fact that her father abandoned her and her siblings when they were young"--
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Małżeństwo Gavina Scotta ma poważne problemy. Mężczyzna dowiedział się, że jego żona udawała WSZYSTKIE orgazmy. To prawdziwy cios w serce, zwłaszcza dla członka drużyny Nashville Legends. Pod wpływem chwili podejmuje on najgorszą z możliwych decyzji...robi żonie awanturę! Kiedy Thea uznaje, że to dla niej za dużo, prosi go o rozwód. Gavin nie może pogodzić się z rozpadem małżeństwa i chce zrobić wszystko, żeby naprawić...
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Book club discussion kit featuring the title, Remarkably bright creatures: "For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus. After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's...
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"From hosting authors to planning and coordinating book activities such as book signings and book clubs, libraries are perfect venues for readers to interact directly with authors and their books. And mounting literary programming can be easier than you might think. In this guide Booklist's Brad Hooper inspires, encourages, and advises librarians in providing a wide range of programming that targets their communities of book lovers. Incorporating...
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Book club discussion kit featuring the title, Maybe you should talk to someone: "From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she)"--
267) Oak Park Public Library: The sum of us :what racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together
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Book club discussion kit featuring the title, Sum of us: What racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together: The Sum of Us is a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here: divided and self-destructing, materially rich but spiritually starved and vastly unequal. McGhee marshals economic and sociological research to paint an irrefutable story of racism’s costs, but at the heart of the book are the humble stories of people yearning to be part...
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Book club discussion kit featuring So you want to talk about race: "An actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide. Police brutality trials, white supremacist rallies, Black Lives Matter protests. Rage is the story behind many of the issues that make headlines every day. But to talk about race itself--to examine the way it...
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During the first meeting of the Winter Warmth Book Chat, the lights in Mary's Mystery Bookshop go out. When they come back on, Mary realizes a book has been stolen from the counter. And not just any book. This was a signed early edition of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. Mary intended to sell the rare and valuable copy and donate the money to help a little girl get a kidney transplant. Now everyone at the Book Chat is a suspect, and...
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Book club discussion kit featuring the title, The celebrants: "It's been a minute-or five years-since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation when their adult lives officially began. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink of a new decade, with all the responsibilities of adulthood, yet no closer to having their lives figured out. Though not for a lack of trying....
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Book club discussion kit featuring the title, Black buck: "A crackling, satirical debut novel about a young black man who accidentally impresses a CEO while serving his Starbucks order, catapulting him into the opportunity of a lifetime-a shot at stardom as the lone black salesman at an eccentric, mysterious, and wildly successful startup where, he will soon learn, nothing is as it seems"--
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Book club discussion kit featuring the title, The good sister: "Sally Hepworth, the author of The Mother-In-Law, delivers a knock-out of a novel about the lies that bind two sisters. From the outside, everyone might think Fern and Rose are as close as twin sisters can be: Rose is the responsible one, with a home and a husband and a fierce desire to become a mother. Fern is the quirky one, the free spirit, the librarian who avoids social interaction...
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Thursday Murder Club mystery volume 1
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"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. There's Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one...
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Since moving to the seaside for her husband's job (in Liverpool), Emma Chance's life is all about long walks on the beach (with the dog), early nights (with the kids), and Netflix (no chill). She's bored. And lonely. When a school gate mum and almost-friend tells Emma about an exclusive book club - hosted by Head of the PTA (and wife of a footballer, but NOT a Footballer's Wife) Jools Jackson - she thinks it could be the perfect solution, but she...
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Book club discussion kit featuring the title, The undocumented Americans: "Traveling across the country, journalist Karla Cornejo Villavicencio risked arrest at every turn to report the extraordinary stories of her fellow undocumented Americans. Her subjects have every reason to be wary around reporters, but Cornejo Villavicencio has unmatched access to their stories. Her work culminates in a stunning, essential read for our times. Born in Ecuador...
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Book club discussion kit featuring the title, Whalefall: "Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool's errand-to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it's a long shot, but Jay feels it's the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad's death by suicide the previous year. The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very...
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