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A New Year!
The UD Book Club begins the 2016/2017 academic year!
- May - A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny
- July - Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty
- August - All the Light We Cannot See
- September - The Little Paris Bookshop
- October - Everybody's Fool
- November - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
- February - The Zookeeper's Wife
- March - Arsenic with Austen by Katherine Bolger Hyde
- April - Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
- May - Murder on Astor Place by Victoria Thompson
2016/2017 Picks . . .
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Murder on Astor Place by Victoria ThompsonCall Number: PS 3570 .H64 M86 2009
ISBN: 9780425229729
Publication Date: 2009
A murder draws in Sarah, a midwife, who feels an obligation to help solve it along with a troubled detective.
Our May selection.
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Mansfield Park by Jane AustenCall Number: PR 4034 . M37 2001
ISBN: 9780375757815
Publication Date: 2001
Fanny Price, a young girl plucked from poverty is taken to live with prosperous relatives at Mansfield Park. Fanny navigates a labyrinth of intrigue and affairs among the occupants of the house, while her cousin Edmund Bertram remains her stalwart
confidante.
Our April selection.
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Arsenic with Austen by Katherine Bolger HydeCall Number: PR 3608 .Y367 A89 2016
ISBN: 9781250065476
Publication Date: 2016
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The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane AckermanCall Number: DS 134.64 .A25 2007
ISBN: 9780393061727
Publication Date: 2007
When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants.
Our February selection.
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan BradleyISBN: 9780385342308
Publication Date: 2009
Flavia, an 11-year-old with a chemistry lab, finds a corpse in a cucumber patch and applies the detective skills she learned plotting against her older sisters.
Our November selection.
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Everybody's Fool by Richard RussoCall Number: PS3568.U812 E94 2016
ISBN: 9780307270641
Publication Date: 2016
Everybody's Fool is classic Russo, filled with humor, heart, hard times, and people you can't help but love, possibly because their various faults make them so human.
Our October selection.
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The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina GeorgeCall Number: PT 2707 .E59 L38 2015
ISBN: 9780553418774
Publication Date: 2015
Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared.
Our September selection.
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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrCall Number: PS3604.O37 A77 2014
ISBN: 9781476746586
Publication Date: 2014
New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
Our August selection.
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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.