Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline - 278 pages Book Blurb: Nearly eighteen, Molly Ayer knows she has one last chance. Just months from "aging out" of the child welfare system, and close to being kicked out of her foster home, a community service position helping an...
The Other Typist
The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell - 368 pages Book Blurb: New York City, 1924: the height of Prohibition and the whole city swims in bathtub gin. Rose Baker is an orphaned young woman working for her bread as a typist in a police precinct on the lower East Side....
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter - 337 pages Book Blurb: The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks on over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a...
The Buddha In The Attic
The Buddha In The Attic by Julie Otsuka - 129 pages Book Blurb: In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the picture brides’ extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining...
Every Day by David Levithan
Every Day by David Levithan - 324 pages ARC courtesy of Random House Book Blurb: There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed....
The Children Of Willesden Lane (The play: The Pianist of Willesden Lane)
The Children Of Willesden Lane by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen - 288 pages The Play: The Pianist Of Willesden Lane is based on this book Book Blurb: With the raw emotion of The Diary of Anne Frank, Mona Golabek's powerful memoir is a poignant story of tragedy and...
Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin
Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin - 347 pages Book Blurb: The Walker family is good at keeping secrets from the world. They are even better at keeping them from each other. Max Walker is a golden boy. Attractive, intelligent, and athletic, he's the perfect son, the...
The Golem And The Jinni by Helene Wecker
The Golem and The Jinni by Helene Wecker - 486 pages Book Blurb: An immigrant tale that combines elements of Jewish and Arab folk mythology, Helene Wecker's dazzling debut novel tells the story of two supernatural creatures who arrive separately in New York in 1899....
When She Was Gone
When She Was Gone by Gwendolen Gross - 275 pages Book Blurb: Seventeen-year-old Linsey Hart disappears the day before she’s due to leave for college. As her neighbors piece together what they saw and what they think they know about the missing girl, their long-held...
Energize Your Book Club
Energize Your Book Club... Here’s the handout I presented at the Vernon Area Public Library on Friday night. The new library is spectacular! Energizing Your Book Club Coordinating Food and Drink Brooklyn by Colm Toibin (have New York Cheesecake) Little Bee by Chris...
