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Past Book Club Selections ...

November Book: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Description (from Amazon.com) Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart–he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season’s first snowfall, they build a child out [...]

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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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East of Eden by John Steinbeck

East of Eden, John Steinbeck’s passionate and exhilarating epic, re-creates the seminal stories of Genesis through the intertwined lives of two American families … in the Salinas Valley of northern California.

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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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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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October Book: The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

  Description (from Amazon.com) After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other [...]

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April Pick: 11/22/63 by Stephen King

Our book club pick for April is 11/22/63 by Stephen King. From Simon and Schuster:    ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTS RANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED, AND THE WORLD CHANGED. WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE IT BACK?  The story begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes [...]

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