Book Club Books

• Cultural clash begins with a young Hasidic woman reading romance novels in her closet at night.

• Epic tale of three generations of the Trueba family in Chile.
  

• Born in England in 1959, Ruby relates the story of her family living above shops in the 1960’s and of her mother and grandmother through earlier wars.
  

• Emma tries to impose her match making ideas on everyone and finds that sometimes she should desist.
  

• Two sisters, one practical and conventional and the other emotional and sentimental, find that only through compromise of their mutual differences can they get along.
  

• Three titles in one book.
  

• Mr. Bones, the canine sidekick of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant but troubled Brooklyn poet, accompanies his master on a trip to Baltimore, Maryland, to search for Willy's high school teacher and beloved mentor, Bea Swanson, in a novel narrated from the dog's point of view.
  

• Four narrators--bus driver Dolores, upright Bill, shrewd Mitchell, and teenaged Nichole--address agonizing questions as they describe an accident that killed fourteen children and the effects of the tragedy on themselves and their town.
  

• Fictional narrative of Ann Arbor resident Bradley Smith and a dozen of his quirky neighbors who congregate at his coffee shop.
  

• Non-fiction memoir of the authors hardscrabble southern youth and his personal belief in the dignity of poor people.
  

• Biography of physicist Albert Einstein, including secrets kept for years by the executers of his estate.
  

• Exploration of the daily life of Muslim women.
  

• Author writes with humor about his adventures on the Appalachian Trail.
  

• Exploits of the legendary 19th century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.
  

• Fictional accounting of the 16 year old servant that was the object of a Vermeer painting.

• A moving account of a young woman’s battle with breast cancer

• The story of three women: one set in present day NY, one in a 1950’s LA suburb and one involving Virginia Woolf. Their stories intertwine. Pulitzer Prize winner.
  

• The lives of two boys take an unexpected turn during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
  

• The story is set in the Dominican Republic after the President has decided to rid the country of the many Haitians who worked in the cane fields. A young woman who works as a maid is in love with a cane worker. She decides to leave and begins a trek over the mountains to find her man.
  

• Three determined people are drawn to the same house in CA and their lives become entangled and a crisis results.
  

• Clever tale of an island nation that must learn new ways of communicating when their government bans letters of the alphabet.
  

• Quirky tale of 22 yr old Eggers who becomes an orphan and a “single mother” when his parents die within five months of each other.
  

• A journalist looks at low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate strategies for survival. Instantly acclaimed for its insight, humor, and passion, this book is changing the way America perceives its working poor.
  

• Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 2003, this epic coming of age novel takes place in the Detroit area and spans five decades, from 1920-1970.
  

• Clash of cultures results when a Hmong epileptic child is treated by western medical practitioners.
  

• The story of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother.
  

• Frank Bascombe used to be a sportswriter, now he sells real estate. On a July weekend trip with his son life suddenly changes for him. Pulitzer Prize Winner.
  

• Entertaining and very readable non-fiction about globalization of the economy.
  

• Miss Jane Pittman is 110 when she recalls her childhood and the arrival of both Union and Confederate troops on the plantation where she lived.
  

• Interconnected lives, loves, and relationships of different generations over the course of three crucial summers.
  

• Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
  

• David Halberstam, the bestselling author of the baseball classic Summer of '49, has followed the members of the 1949 championship Boston Red Sox team for years, especially Williams, Doerr, DiMaggio, and Pesky. In this extremely moving book, Halberstam reveals how these four teammates became friends, and how that friendship thrived for more than 60 years.
  

• A story of loss and redemption as a high school teacher helps a pregnant teenage start a new life with a non-traditional family.
  

• A world-class athlete on the racetrack, is the center of this fast-moving, riveting true story of not only a horse but of the humans who owned, trained and rode him during a time when all of America was watching.
  

• Engrossing portrait of our founding father and life in the 18th century.
  

• English butler hoping to rise to the top of his profession and his conflicted feelings for a former housekeeper.
  

• Forbidden love and divorce in 1960’s China.
  

• When a plantation proprietor and former slave--now possessing slaves of his own--dies, his household falls apart in the wake of a slave rebellion and corrupt underpaid patrollers who enable free black people to be sold into slavery.
  

• Haunted by her mother’s death, 14 year old Lily joins her black “stand in mother” as they escape three local racists and are taken in by three beekeeping sisters in Tiburon South Carolina.
  

• A double murder is the core of this expose of violent faith in America’s Mormon communities.
  

• Mother and daughter deal with romantic love and it’s frequent disillusionment in a pastoral setting on the coast of England.
  

• British TV sitcom writer Lawrence Passmore is a therapy addict. This novel follows his humorous quest for contentment.
  

• Essays written by local poet and funeral director about the time between birth and death.
  

• Essays about the life of a local funeral director and his mission to unravel the mysteries of life and death.
  

• Set in an Oz where a morose Wizard battles suicidal thoughts, the story of the green-skinned Elphaba, otherwise known as the Wicked Witch of the West, profiles her as an animal rights activist striving to avenge her dear sister's death.
  

• An erudite and entertaining exploration of reading.
  

• A memoir of a black man’s white Jewish mother.
  

• Two young men become the most famous vaudeville comedy team until one betrays the other.
  

• A quiet, sensitive girl searches for beauty in a small, but damned Southern town.

• Biography of Teddy Roosevelt.
  

• Biography of the second President of the U.S.
  

• Three children lose their innocence and their lives are changed forever.
  

• The life of Edna St. Vincent Millay.
  

• A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him
  

• Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.
  

• First novel in the Napoleonic War sea adventures of Captain Aubrey and surgeon Muturin.
  

• Forensic anthropologist is sent to her native Sri Lanka to investigate a series of murders.
  

• When her fiancé Mike is left paralyzed following a tragic accident, Carrie Bell begins to question her familiar world, from her everyday life in Wisconsin to her relationships, as she sets out to rediscover her own identity.
  

• When terrorists seize hostages at an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people is thrown together, including American opera star Roxane Coss, and Mr. Hosokawa, a Japanese CEO and her biggest.
  

• 50 years after WWII the author paints a self-portrait of a young boy drawn helplessly into the vortex of that war.
  

• Using his own life story, Mike Rose describes America’s educational underclass and his innovative methods of awakening untapped potential in “problem” students.
  

• Harry Potter discovers his destiny at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
  

• Warmhearted and funny, a story of a New England mill town, without a mill.
  

• Essays addressing the Middle East peace process written by an expert in the field.
  

• Memoir of a young man trying to “become someone” during the 60’s.
  

• Musical prodigy comes to terms with disability with the help of a young student and a call to jury duty.
  

• A true story behind the veil in Saudi Arabia
  

• A novel of the American Revolution.
  

• South and North clash again during this fictional retelling of the Battle of Gettysberg
  

• Tale of a young Native American woman’s odyssey through Victorian America and Europe.
  

• Biography of the famous scientist told through correspondence between him and his daughter who lives in a convent.
  

• A classic essay about society, art, sexism and a woman’s need to freed from social and financial obligations in order to be creative.
  

Wouk, Herman >> Marjorie Morningstar 565p 1955 10 Copies

• A young Jewish girl experiences love, pain, and disappointment in the struggle to become an actress.
  

Zadoorian, Michael >> Second Hand 270p 2000 10 Copies

• Owner of a second hand store in Metro Detroit discovers old photographs that transform his life.