 | The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $1.96 We all loved this book! We could relate it to our lives, as we work with low-income clients.
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 | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $0.01 Another great book! The details were hard to read, but impossible to stop reading at the same time.
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 | The Brooklyn Follies: A Novel by Paul Auster
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.01 Pretty slow to get going. But, overall worth reading.
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 | Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 We were nervous about the length, and it was also slow starting. However, once it got going, the story was wonderful.
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 | Bitter is the New Black : Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass,Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office by Jen Lancaster
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $3.38 We chose this because we were looking for a light read. I hated it at first, but did grow to like it. There were some funny parts. No where near as good as any of the other books we have read.
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 | THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by TIM O'BRIEN
Buy used from: $18.55 We all really liked this book. It was quite a compelling read, and painted a vivid picture of what these soldiers' lives were like during and after the war.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $3.81 I did not care for this book. I never got into the story and could not make it through. The others did enjoy it, though, and had quite an interesting discussion about the characters and plot.
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 | The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Buy used from: $1.80 We all liked this book. It made for a fun meeting, as we were all reminded of our own family traditions and struggles that we faced growing up, regardless of our background.
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 | Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 This book was okay, but we all expected it to be better. I almost think a story about the author's life would have been more interesting than the characters in the book.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: $9.20 / Used from: $2.83 A great classic book. We all liked it, and some members had read it before but were happy to read it again.
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 | Crisis, Pursued by Disaster, Followed Closely by Catastrophe: A Memoir of Life on the Run by Mike O'Connor
Buy used from: $0.25 This book was a good story, and the author definately led an interesting life.
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 | Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Buy used from: $4.94 This was a great book. There was such a range of emotions felt while reading this story. I am looking forward to reading the author's other book.
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