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Magic HourKristin Hannah
Description: A six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past. Child psychiatrist Dr. Julia Cates is determined to free the extraordinary little girl she calls Alice from a prison of unimaginable fear and isolation. To reach her, Julia must discover the truth about Alice’s past—although doing so requires help from Julia’s estranged sister, a local police officer. |
Magic Mountain, TheThomas Mann
Description: A community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death. |
Memoirs of a GeishaArthur Golden
Description: A fisherman's daughter in 1930s Japan rises to become a famous geisha. After training, Sayuri's virginity is sold to the highest bidder, then the school finds her a general for a patron. When he dies, she is reunited with the only man she loved. |
Memory Keeper's Daughter, TheKim Edwards
Description: In a tale spanning twenty-five years, a doctor delivers his newborn twins during a snowstorm and, rashly deciding to protect his wife from their baby daughter's affliction with Down Syndrome, turns her over to a nurse, who secretly raises the child.
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Memory of Running, TheRon McLarty
Description: Smithson Ide's life so far has led him nowhere. He's 43 years old, weighs 279 pounds, and keeps himself numb with food and alcohol. His only emotional ties are to his parents and to the memory of his older sister, Bethany, who has been missing for 20 years. Then his parents die in a car crash and he learns of Bethany's death in LA County. Suddenly there isn't enough beer in the world to keep Smithy from his feelings. Drunk and bereft, he takes his old Raleigh bicycle and starts cycling. Once he starts, he can't stop and then he's riding across America to recover his sister. Along the way he meets all sorts of people who help or hinder him. |
MiddlesexJeffrey Eugenides
Description: In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Callie's failure to develop--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all. The explanation for this shocking state of affairs takes us out of suburbia--back before the Detroit race riots of 1967, before the rise of the Motor City and Prohibition, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie's grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set in motion the metamorphosis that will turn Callie into a being both mythical and perfectly real: a hermaphrodite.
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My Sister's KeeperJodi Picoult
Description: New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness.
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Name of the Star, TheMaureen Johnson
Description: Rory, of Boueuxlieu, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation.
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No TalkingAndrew Clements
Description: The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest. |
Notebook, TheNicholas Sparks
Description: In a Southern nursing home, an 80-year-old man reads from his diary to his wife, suffering from Alzheimer's. It's the story of their teenage romance, followed by years of separation because he was from the wrong class, followed by her decision, on his return from World War II, to be her own woman and marry him. |
Contents: 11 paperback books -- Clip board.
Contents: 10 paperback books -- Facilitator's loan sheet -- Book synopsis -- Discussion questions -- "How to facilitate a book discussion group" -- Title list -- Clip board.
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Contents: 20 paperback books -- 1 Books on CD (9 discs) -- Facilitator's loan sheet -- Book synopsis -- Discussion questions -- "How to facilitate a book discussion group" -- Title list -- Clip board.
Contents: 12 paperback books -- 4 hardcover books -- Clip board.
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Contents: 16 paperback books -- Clip board.
Contents: 
Contents: 10 hardcover books -- Facilitator's loan sheet -- Book synopsis -- Discussion questions -- "How to facilitate a book discussion group" -- Title list -- Clip board.
Contents: 4 hardback books -- 10 paperback books -- Clip board.