Category Book Club Picks

What the Wind Knows

What the Wind Knows Amy Harmon Time Travel Anne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather’s stories of Ireland. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. There, overcome with memories of the man…

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James

James Percival Everett Historical Fiction When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has…

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Isola

Isola Allegra Goodman Historical Fiction Heir to a fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and her guardian—an enigmatic and volatile man—spends her inheritance and insists she accompany him on an expedition…

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The Names

The Names Florence Knapp Historical Fiction In the wake of a catastrophic storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register her son’s birth. Her husband, Gordon, a local doctor, respected in the community but a terrifying and…

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The Missing Half

The Missing Half Ashley Flowers Mystery Thriller Nicole “Nic” Monroe is in a rut. At twenty-four, she lives alone in a dinky apartment in her hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana, she’s just gotten a DWI, and she works the same dead-end…

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My Sister’s Keeper

My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult Realistic Fiction Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that…

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Small Great Things 

Small Great Things Jodi Picoult Fiction Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a…

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What Dows it Feel Like?

What Dows it Feel Like? Sophie Kinsella Fiction “What Does It Feel Like? is fiction, but it is my most autobiographical work to date. Eve’s story is my story.”—Sophie Kinsella Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day…

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This Tender Land 

This Tender Land William Kent Krueger Historical Fiction In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota’s Gilead River, Odie O’Banion is an orphan confined to the Lincoln Indian Training School, a pitiless place where his lively nature earns…

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