 | One True Thing: A Novel by Anna Quindlen
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.43 Our first book club selection in May 2008 for our "Mothers & Daughters" theme. Good reviews all around, great story.
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 | The Bean Trees: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 June 2008 - "Appalachian Writers" theme. Good book, good discussion. Several us read other Kingsolver books afterwards.
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 | The Red Tent: A Novel by Anita Diamant
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.50 For our theme, "Women of the Bible," we chose this book for July 2008. We had one of our largest groups for this discussion. Most liked it, but some of us had a hard time finishing it.
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 | Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 August 2008 - The first non-fiction selection for our book club. The group was pretty divided over this one; about half loved it and the other half either hated it or couldn't get through it.
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 | Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $2.81 The September 2008 choice. A classic, though most of us hadn't read it. Lots of great discussion and several in our group also went on to read the sequel.
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 | The Blackstone Key: A Novel by Rose Melikan
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 October 2008, our "murder mystery" theme. Not one of the favorites, it was hard for many of us to get through.
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 | A Christmas Visitor (The Christmas Stories) by Anne Perry
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $0.01 Our November/December 2008 selection for the Christmas season. Not a favorite, but quick and easy for a busy time of the year.
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 | The Shack by William P. Young
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.85 We started the new year with this book as our January 2009 choice. One of our best discussions.
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 | One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.99 February 2009 for our "Pioneer Women" theme. Mixed feelings about this choice initially, but everyone ended up really enjoying it.
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 | The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.01 The selection for March 2009. Well-liked by everyone. Many were initially put off by the premise of a dead girl telling the story, but it was actually a great read.
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 | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle) by Mary Ann Shaffer
Buy new: $8.40 / Used from: $6.59 Our April 2009 choice. We all loved this one! What a great story...it made many of us want to plan a trip to Guernsey.
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 | Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together by Ron Hall
Buy new: $9.47 / Used from: $6.53 May 2009 selection. A fantastic, true story told by two unique narrators. We had a great discussion about prejudice, suffering and hope.
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 | My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.00 June 2009 selection.
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 | Obedience: A Novel by Will Lavender
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.01 July 2009 selection - a Kentucky author.
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 | The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.57 August 2009. Great quick read. We even had email correspondence with the author!
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 | Deep Down by Karen Harper
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 September 2009.
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 | The Clergy Affair by Jennifer Johnson
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $23.52 October 2009. The author is a minister in our town and will join us for our discussion!
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 | Christmas Jars by Jason F. Wright
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.49 November/December 2009.
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