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Does your book club want to try a new genre but you don’t know where to start? Genre kits provide an introduction with 10 different titles to choose from along with a guide which includes additional information about the genre and readalikes for future reading.
Looking back at a tragic event that occurred during his thirteenth year, Frank Drum explores how a complicated web of secrets, adultery, and betrayal shattered his Methodist family and their small 1961 Minnesota community.
MOVIE TIE-IN EDITION. Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement, drawing on oral histories, personal recollections, interviews, archival documents and more, 'Hidden Figures' is the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female m...
"William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padava...
"It isn't paranoia if it's really happening ... Anna Fox lives alone -- a recluse in her New York City home, drinking too much wine, watching old movies ... and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move next door: a father, a mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. ...
"One vital piece of equipment has been a constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure--the sketchbook or journal. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences, insight, and discovery, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. H...
In 1806 William Thornhill is transported from the slums of London to Australia as punishment for stealing. After serving his 8 year sentence, Thornhill sails up the Hawkesbury River to claim land for himself. But Aboriginal people already live along the river forcing Thornhill to...
"It's 1947 and American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a fervent belief that her beloved French cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might st...
Interweaves the stories of a baby girl in India, the American doctor who adopted her, and the Indian mother who gave her up in favor of a son, as two families, one in India, the other in the United States, are changed by the child that connects them. Somer's life is everything sh...
Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse. As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly...