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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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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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493 pages ; 23 cm.
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Hazel Rose never dreamed that the murder mystery book group she and her friend Carlene started would stage a real murder. Nevertheless, the normally composed Carlene is unusually angry and rattled one night during a book group discussion and dies after drinking cyanide-spiked tea. Despite a suicide note, Hazel is skeptical; Carlene never seemed suicidal--she was busy making plans for her future. Incidentally, Carlene was married to Hazel's ex-husband,...
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In 1946, as London emerges from the shadow of World War II, author Juliet Ashton is having a terrible time finding inspiration for her next book. Then she receives a letter from Guernsey Island, and learns of a unique book club formed on the spur of the moment as an alibi to protect its members from arrest by the occupying Germans during the war. Captivated, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds there will change her life forever.
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Cherry Cola Book Club volume 2
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With one year to show her library's value to the community, librarian Maura Beth Mayhew tries to raise the library's profile through a book club, while clashing with a councilman determined to divert library funds for another project.
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A sublime comedy of contemporary manners, this is the novel Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in twenty-first- century California.
Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Karen Joy Fowler's fiction, and in her latest, the complex dance of modern love has never been so devious or so much fun. Six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements...
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Beloved bookroom mysteries volume 3
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
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294 p. ;
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"When a member of an exclusive book club is poisoned, spunky librarian Trudell Beckett must sort fact from fiction to solve the murder. The Cypress Arete Society is the town's oldest and most exclusive book club. When Trudell Beckett, the town's spunky assistant librarian, is invited to speak to the club about the library, its modernization, and her efforts to bring printed books to the reading public, Trudell's friend Flossie invites herself along....
11) Death by tea
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Mystery lovers have descended on Pine Hills for this year's book club competition, to be held at Krissy Hancock's bookstore café. But the killer in their midst seems determined to outwit all the armchair sleuths-and send Krissy to the remainder bin forever.
Just before two dueling book clubs are set to square off at Death by Coffee, one of the competitors turns up dead-bludgeoned with the silver teapot that was to serve as the prize. Suspicion...
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Finfarran Peninsula volume 4
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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355, 17 pages ; 24 cm
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On the Finfarran Peninsula on Ireland?s west coast, at the Lissbeg Library, a group of women gather together for the first book club of the summer where they?ll all face difficult choices and hope to get the happy endings they all deserve.
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Summer Beach novel volume 6
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When sisters Ivy and Shelly Bay form a book club to help support a local bookshop on the beach, friends and guests of the old beach house inn are eager to join, although one new member harbors a potentially devastating secret. Meanwhile, a discovery in the historic beach house inn brings the past to light, and recently widowed Ivy grapples with the idea of a new marriage. But when a threat arises during a book club meeting that could impact the entire...
15) Hauntley girls
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Disney Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Vampirina and her mom decide to start a Mother-Daughter Book Club. For their first club meeting, they choose a book everyone can really sink their teeth into--only the book is magical and casts a spell on the humans. Vee and her mom will have to work together to break the spell"--
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Cherry Cola Book Club volume 1
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2013
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260 p. ; 21 cm
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To save the library and her job, librarian Maura Beth Mayhew starts the Cherry Cola Book Club and soon the booklovers of Cherico, Mississippi gather together to talk about literary classics, romance, and dreams over potluck dinners.
17) Blush
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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585 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"From acclaimed author Jamie Brenner comes a stunning new novel about three generations of women who discover that the scandalous books of their past may just be the key to saving their family's future"--
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Paul Dry Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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227 pages
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Listening to the ticking of her biological clock, and wondering where life is taking her, Suzanne Davis embarks on a wrong-headed, but very funny, quest to find Mr. Right and start the family she hopes will give meaning to her life, as her 35th birthday looms closer.
19) The write story
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
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93 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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Rapunzel is thrilled when her favorite author offers to write her biography, but when Eugene begins to exaggerate the book ends up full of lies.
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The University of Wisconsin Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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vii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"What is a book club but an excuse to talk to friends? The Toni Morrison Book Club brings that experience to life by telling the story of four friends who turn to Toni Morrison as they search for meaning in their lives. In this startling group memoir, thewriters--black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American born--allow Morrison's words, like music, to make them feel, confess, and discover. The result is a collection of deeply personal...
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