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Adult Book Club
Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
The Angelini Shoe Company, one of the last family-owned businesses in Greenwich Village, has been making exquisite wedding shoes since 1903 but now teeters on the brink of financial collapse. To save their business from ruin, thirty-three-year-old Valentine Roncalli—apprentice to and granddaughter of master artisan Teodora Angelini—must bring the family's old-world craftsmanship into the twenty-first century. Juggling her budding romance with dashing chef Roman Falconi, her duty to her family, and a design challenge presented by a prestigious department store, Valentine returns to Italy with her grandmother in a quest to build a pair of glorious shoes to beat their rivals. And in the course of discovering her true artistic voice and so much more in la bella Italia, Valentine will be turning her life and the business upside down in ways she never expected.
When Men Become Gods by Stephen Singular
As the self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, Warren Jeffs held sway over thousands of followers for nearly a decade. His rule was utterly tyrannical. In addition to coercing young girls into marriages with older men, Jeffs reputedly took scores of wives, many of whom were his father’s widows. But in 2007, after landing on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List, Jeffs’s reign was forcefully ended. He would be imprisoned for committing rape as an accomplice. In When Men Become Gods, Edgar Award–nominee Stephen Singular traces Jeffs’s rise to power and the concerted effort that led to his downfall. Newly updated, it describes the controversial 2008 raid on Jeffs’s Texas compound and the fate of the 439 children taken from the sect. It offers readers a rare glimpse into a tradition that’s almost a century old, but has only now been exposed
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Starred reviews and pick of months for many!! Little Bee, smart and stoic, knows two people in England, Andrew and Sarah, journalists she chanced upon on a Nigerian beach after fleeing a massacre in her village, one grisly outbreak in an off-the-radar oil war. After sneaking into England and escaping a rural “immigration removal” center, she arrives at Andrew and Sarah’s London suburb home only to find that the violence that haunts her has also poisoned them. In an unnerving blend of dread, wit, and beauty, Cleave slowly and arrestingly excavates the full extent of the horror that binds Little Bee and Sarah together.
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Children's Book Clubs
Beginners Book Club: Wed. October 14th 6:30pm Mrs. Wishy Washy’s Farm by Joy Cowley Uh-oh. Mrs. Wishy-Washy is at it again. Rubbing and scrubbing all the animals on the farm. But this time they aren't standing for it. Duck, Cow, and Pig are leaving mean old Mrs. Wishy-Washy for good! They run away to the big city. But they get lost, wander into a restaurant, and even stumble into a hardware store and get covered in paint! Where is Mrs. Wishy-Washy when they need her? Maybe her farm isn't so bad after all . . . Joy Cowley and Elizabeth Fuller have brought their clean-loving Mrs. Wishy-Washy back to her old tricks in this full-length sudsy story that will become a favorite before you can say "Bathtime!"
Junior Book Club Wed. October 21st 6:30pm Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume Passed on from babysitters to their young charges, from big sisters to little brothers, and from parents to children, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and its cousins (Superfudge, Fudge-a-mania, and Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great) have entertained children since they first appeared in the early 1970s. The books follow Peter Hatcher, his little brother Fudgie, baby sister Tootsie, their neighbor Sheila Tubman, various pets, and minor characters through New York City and on treks to suburbs and camps. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing is the first of these entertaining yarns. Peter, because he's the oldest, must deal with Fudgie's disgusting cuteness, his constant meddling with Peter's stuff, and other grave offenses, one of which is almost too much to bear. All these incidents are presented with the unfailing ear and big-hearted humor of the masterful Judy Blume.
ADULT BOOK CLUB PREVIOUS TITLES:
**Glass Castle Kabul Beauty School Tallgrass Mudbound History of Love A Clockwork Orange Spellman Files Book Thief FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB The Piano Tuner BROTHERS **PILLARS OF THE EARTH Hidden by Paul Jaskunas Face Behind the Veil by Donna Gehrke-White Name All the Animals by Alison Smith Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington Time and Again by Jack Finney **Snow Flower and Secret Fan by Lisa See The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler **Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich How to be Lost by Amanda Eyre Ward **Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards Dishwasher by Pete Jordan Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen **Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert ** Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan Labyrinth by Kate Mosse Eleanor vs. Ike by Robin Gerber Family Tree by Barbara Delinsky
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