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A New Year!
The UD Book Club begins the 2015/2016 academic year!
- June - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
- July - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- August - Born with Teeth by Kate Mulgrew
- September - Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
- October - The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
- December - The Drowning by Camilla Lackberg
- January - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
- February - What She Left Behind by Ellen Wiseman
- March - Tapestry of Fortunes by Elizabeth Berg
- April - Dream When You're Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg
- May - A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny
- July - Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty
- August - All the Light We Cannot See
2015/2016 Picks . . .
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Three Wishes by Liane MoriartyCall Number: PR 9619.4 .M67 T47 2005
ISBN: 0060586125
Publication Date: 2004
Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle, beautiful thirty-three-year-old triplets, seem to attract attention everywhere they go. Whenever they're together, laughter, drama, and mayhem seem to follow. But apart, each is very much her own woman, dealing with her own share ofups and downs.
Our July selection.
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A Rule Against Murder by Louise PennyCall Number: PR 9199.4 .P464 M87 2011
ISBN: 9780312614164
Publication Date: 2011
It is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding anniversary at Manoir Bellechasse, an isolated, luxurious inn not far from the village of Three Pines. But they're not alone. The Finney family--rich, cultured, and respectable--has also arrived for a celebration of their own. The beautiful Manoir Bellechasse might be surrounded by nature, but there is something unnatural looming. As the heat rises and the humidity closes in, some surprising guests turn up at the family reunion, and a terrible summer storm leaves behind a dead body.
Our May selection.
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Dream When You're Feeling Blue by Elizabeth BergCall Number: PS 3552 .E6996 D74 2007
ISBN: 9781400065103
Publication Date: 2007
New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Berg takes us to Chicago at the time of World War II in this wonderful story about three sisters, their lively Irish family, and the men they love. For Kitty, a confident, headstrong young woman, the departure of her boyfriend and the lessons she learns about love, resilience, and war will bring a surprise and a secret, and will lead her to a radical action for those she loves. The lifelong consequences of the choices the Heaney sisters make are at the heart of this superb novel about the power of love and the enduring strength of family.
Our April selection.
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Tapestry of Fortunes by Elizabeth BergCall Number: PS 3552 .E69 T37 2013
ISBN: 9780812993141
Publication Date: 2013
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this superb new novel by the beloved author of Open House, Home Safe, and The Last Time I Saw You, four women venture into their pasts in order to shape their futures, fates, and fortunes.
Our March selection.
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What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie WisemanCall Number: PS3623.I833 W43 2014
ISBN: 9780758278456
Publication Date: 2013
Ten years ago, Izzy Stone's mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother's apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster parents, employees at the local museum, have enlisted Izzy's help in cataloging items at a long-shuttered state asylum. There, amid piles of abandoned belongings, Izzy discovers a stack of unopened letters, a decades-old journal, and a window into her own past.
Our February selection.
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What Alice Forgot by Liane MoriartyCall Number: PR 9619.4 .M67 W48 2011
ISBN: 9780399157189
Publication Date: 2011
What would happen if you were visited by your younger self, and got a chance for a do-over? Alice Love is twenty-nine years old, madly in love with her husband, and pregnant with their first child. So imagine her surprise when, after a fall, she comes to on the floor of a gym (a gym! she HATES the gym!) and discovers that she's actually thirty-nine, has three children, and is in the midst of an acrimonious divorce.
Our January selection.
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The Drowning by Camilla LackbergCall Number: PT 9877.22. A34 S5813 2012
ISBN: 9780007419517
Publication Date: 2012
Christian Thydell's dream has come true: his debut novel, The Mermaid, is published to rave reviews. So why is he as distant and unhappy as ever?
When crime writer Erica Falck, who discovered Christian's talents, learns he has been receiving anonymous threats, she investigates not just the messages but also the author's mysterious past . . .
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The Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionCall Number: PR 9619.3 .S497 R67 2013
ISBN: 9781476729084
Publication Date: 2013
A brilliant yet socially challenged professor of genetics, who's decided it's time he found a wife. And so, in the orderly, evidence-based manner with which Don approaches all things, he designs the Wife Project to find his perfect partner: a sixteen-page, scientifically valid survey to filter out the drinkers, the smokers, the late arrivers. Rosie Jarman is all these things. She also is strangely beguiling, fiery, and intelligent.
Our October selection.
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Orphan Train by Christina Baker KlineCall Number: PS 3561 .L478 2013
ISBN: 9780061950728
Publication Date: 2013
Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by pure luck. Would they be adopted by a kind and loving family, or would they face a childhood and adolescence of hard labor and servitude? As a young Irish immigrant, Vivian Daly was one such child, sent by rail from New York City to an uncertain future a world away.
Our September selection.
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Born with Teeth by Kate MulgrewISBN: 9780316334310
Publication Date: 2015
Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew "how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil," Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry and drama in her bones. But in her mother, a would-be artist burdened by the endless arrival of new babies, young Kate saw the consequences of a dream deferred. Determined to pursue her own no matter the cost, at 18 she left her small Midwestern town for New York, where, studying with the legendary Stella Adler, she learned the lesson that would define her as an actress.
Our August selection.
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Gone Girl by Gillian FlynnCall Number: PS 3606 .L935 G66 2012
ISBN: 9780307588364
Publication Date: 2012
Gone Girl's toxic mix of sharp-edged wit and deliciously chilling prose creates a nerve-fraying thriller that confounds you at every turn. On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media--as well as Amy's fiercely doting parents--the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter--but is he really a killer? As the cops close in, every couple in town is soon wondering how well they know the one that they love. With his twin sister, Margo, at his side, Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didn't do it, where is that beautiful wife?
Our July selection.
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel JoyceCall Number: PR6110.O98 U55 2012
ISBN: 9780812983456
Publication Date: 2013-03-26
Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning a letter arrives, addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl, from a woman he hasn't heard from in twenty years. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye. But before Harold mails off a quick reply, a chance encounter convinces him that he absolutely must deliver his message to Queenie in person.
Our June selection.