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Past Book Club Selections ...

February Pick: Anna’s Book by Barbara Vine

The next Buttery Books Book Club party will be held on February 19th March 26th and hosted by Annie and Kristi.   We will be reading Anna’s Book by Barbara Vine, published in 1993 (titled Asta’s Book in the UK). From Publishers Weekly Anna, an uncompromising Danish wife stranded by her husband in 1905 London, slyly scribbles tales [...]

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Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

The reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew.

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June Pick: Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Eilis Lacey is in her early 20′s and lives in a small town in Ireland. She is having a hard time finding a job as a bookkeeper in the years following World War II. When she gets an opportunity to go to America, she decides to leave her fragile mother and sister behind.

In America, Eilis finds work and finds love but devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future.

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January Pick: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

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September Pick: The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

A 4 year old arrives alone on a dock in Australia with only a few belongings in a small white suitcase. When the man who found and cared for her dies, an older Nell is given the suitcase. Within it is a book of fairy tales written by the woman who put her on the boat. Join Nell, and then her granddaughter Cassandra, on a journey to England and a cottage on a cliff to unravel the mystery of her past.

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November Pick: The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman

Buttery Books November book selections is The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman. The Dovekeepers is the story of four Jewish women who come together during the seige of Masada in the 1st-century CE. Over 900 rebel Jewish men, women and children make a final stand against the Roman army on the mountain fortress of Masada in the Judean desert.  [...]

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December Pick: Juliet by Anne Fortier

“With exquisite detail and flawless pacing, Juliet is a multi-layered tapestry of Julie’s present and Giulietta’s 14th-century past, where families, generations apart, are still at each other’s throats. Betwixt tragedy and epic romance, Juliet will stir your heart and quicken your pulse. After all, if Julie is Giulietta, then where art thou, Romeo?” – Jamie Ford, author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

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