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Saturday April 3, 10:00am
Main Library, Costin Room
Want to share your favorite titles with other readers and get
some tips on what to read next? Come to this monthly Saturday morning
coffee hour. Bring books or titles others may enjoy, and gather
suggestions for great reads you may have missed. View a list of books
recommended at previous book chats below.
Recommended at the March 6, 2010
Book Chat

| Jordan,
Hillary |
Mudbound |
| Heyer, Georgette |
The Grand
Sophy |
| Hoffman, Alice |
The Story
Sisters |
| Nafisi, Azar |
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books |
| Carter, Stephen L. |
New England white |
| Cheever, Susan |
American Bloomsbury
- (Audiobook) |
| Archer, Jeffrey |
Paths of Glory |
| Boyd, William |
Ordinary thunderstorms |
| Chandler, Raymond |
Author recommended in general |
| Dyer, Geoff |
Jeff in Venice, death in Varanasi |
| Robinson, Peter |
In a dry season |
| Ford, Jamie |
Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet
- (Audiobook) |
| Némirovsky, Irène |
Suite française
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| Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe |
The leopard |
| Edelman, Ric |
The lies about money : achieving financial security and true wealth by avoiding the lies others tell us-- and the lies we tell ourselves |
| Forman, Steven M. |
Boca knights |
| Kamkwamba, William |
The boy who harnessed the wind : creating currents of electricity and hope |
| Gilbert, Elizabeth |
Committed : a skeptic makes peace with marriage |
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Recommended at the February 6, 2010
Book Chat

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| Laskin, David |
The children's blizzard |
| Fremont, Helen |
After long silence : a memoir |
| Bohjalian, Christopher A. |
Skeletons at the feast |
| Lebovitz, David |
The sweet life in Paris : delicious adventures in the world's most glorious - and perplexing - city |
| Dirda, Michael |
Book by book : notes on reading and life |
| Gavalda, Anna |
Someone I loved |
| Nabb, Magdalen |
Death of an Englishman |
| Jordan,
Hillary |
Mudbound |
| Child, Lee |
Without fail |
| Butcher, Jim |
Fool Moon |
| Ward, J. R. |
Author recommended in general |
| Child, Lee |
Author recommended in general |
| Weber, Katharine |
Triangle |
| Dirda, Michael |
Classics for pleasure
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| Heyer, Georgette |
The Grand
Sophy and and other regency romances by this author |
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Departures
(DVD) |
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Harvard beats Yale 29-29
(DVD) |
| O'Nan, Stewart |
The Good
Wife (Audiobook) |
| Bloom, Amy |
Come to me : stories |
| Gill, Michael |
How Starbucks saved my life (Audiobook) |
| Kallos, Stephanie |
Broken for you |
| Freedman, Nancy Mars |
Joshua, son of none |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
Unaccustomed earth |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
The namesake |
| Kushner, Harold S. |
Conquering fear : living boldly in an uncertain world |
| Rozan S.J. |
The Shanghai Moon |
| Frusztajer, Bill |
From Siberia to America : a story of survival and success : a memoir
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| Abraham, Pearl |
The romance reader |
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Recommended in 2010

| Recommended at the January 9, 2010
Book Chat
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| Plouffe, David |
The audacity to win : the inside story and lessons of Barack Obama's historic victory |
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Moriarty, Laura |
The rest of her life
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| O'Nan, Stewart |
Songs for the missing |
| Larsson, Stieg |
The Girl with the dragon tattoo |
| Sansom, C. J. |
Dissolution
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| Parkin, Gaile |
Baking cakes in Kigali |
| Mitchell, Joseph |
Up in the old hotel and other stories |
| Epstein, Jason |
Eating : a memoir |
| McDonell, Nick |
An expensive education |
| Bentley, E. C. |
Trent's last case |
| Stockett, Kathryn |
The help
(Book and Audiobook) |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
Unaccustomed earth
(Book and Audiobook) |
| Dirda, Michael |
Bound to please : an extraordinary one-volume literary education : essays on great writers and their books |
| Dirda, Michael |
Book by book : notes on reading and life |
| Meyer, Stephenie |
Twilight |
| Lipman, Elinor |
Then she found me |
| Gulland, Sandra |
The many lives & secret sorrows of Josephine B. |
| Flagg, Fannie |
Welcome to the world, Baby Girl!
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Authors Recommended in General |
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Jeffrey
Archer |
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Jonathan Kellerman |
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Kay Hooper |
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Burns, Elizabeth |
Tilt : every family spins on its own axis |
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Moore, Christopher |
Lamb : the Gospel according to Biff, Christ's childhood pal |
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Tsukiyama, Gail |
Women of the silk
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Tsukiyama, Gail |
The language of threads
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See, Lisa |
Snow flower and the secret fan
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| Markham, Beryl |
West with the night |
| Fasman, Jon |
The geographer's library |
| Robison, John Elder |
Look me in the eye : my life with Asperger's |
| O'Brien, Stacey |
Wesley the owl : the remarkable love story of an owl and his girl |
| Flinn, Kathleen |
The sharper your knife, the less you cry : love, laughter, and tears at the world's most famous cook
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| Kessler, Ronald |
In the president's secret service : behind the scenes with agents in the line of fire and the presidents they protect
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| Moriarty, Laura |
While I'm falling |
| Verghese, Abraham |
The tennis partner : a doctor's story of friendship and loss |
Recommended in 2009
| Recommendations from the
December 5, 2009 Book Chat |
| Russo, Richard |
Straight man |
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Stockett, Kathryn |
The Help -
Audiobook The audiobook is also available for
download |
| Barbery, Muriel |
The elegance of the hedgehog
- Book and Audiobook
The audiobook is also available for
download |
| Rybczynski, Witold |
A clearing in the distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in
the 19th century |
| O'Nan, Stewart |
The good wife |
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Harvard beats
Yale 29-29
- DVD |
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The grocer's son
- DVD |
| Shaffer, Mary Ann |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The
audiobook and the
PDF ebook are also available for download |
| Sittenfeld, Curtis |
American wife : a novel
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| Patterson, James |
Sam's letters to Jennifer : a novel |
| Canin, Ethan. |
America America : a novel |
| Pamuk, Orhan |
Snow |
| King, Dave |
The ha-ha : a novel |
| Halpern, Adena |
The Ten Best
Days of My Life
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| Atkinson, Kate |
When will there be good news? : a novel |
| Arsenault, Emily |
The broken
teaglass |
| Conroy, Pat |
South of Broad
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| Millard, Candice |
River of doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey |
| Moriarty, Laura |
While I'm
falling |
| Mantel, Hilary |
Wolf Hall : a novel |
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Kidder, Tracy |
Strength in what remains Audiobook The
audiobook and the
PDF ebook are also available for download |
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Davidson, Andrew |
The gargoyle |
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Greenberg, Michael |
Beg, borrow, steal : a writer's life |
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Authors Recommended in General |
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Mantel, Hilary |
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Gardam, Jane |
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Lipman, Elinor |
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Berg, Elizabeth |
| Recommendations from the
November 7, 2009 Book Chat |
| Jacobsen, Rowan |
Fruitless fall : the collapse of the honey bee and the coming agricultural crisis |
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Jonnes, Jill |
Eiffel's tower : and the World's Fair where Buffalo Bill beguiled Paris, the artists quarreled, and Thomas Edison became a count |
| Schwarz, Christina |
All is vanity : a novel |
| Packer, Ann |
The dive from Clausen's pier |
| Binchy, Maeve |
Heart and soul |
| McMurtry, Larry |
Books : a memoir
- Audiobook |
| Ferraris, Zoë |
Finding Nouf : a novel |
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Little Dorrit
- Mini-series |
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Lark Rise to
Candleford - TV Seires |
| Eggers, Dave |
Zeitoun |
| White, Stephen |
The siege |
| Tinti, Hannah |
The good thief : a novel |
| Kent, Kathleen |
The heretic's daughter : a novel |
Recommendations from the
October 10, 2009 Book Chat |
| Myron, Vicki |
Dewey
: the small-town library cat who touched the world |
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Tan, Amy |
The bonesetter's daughter
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| Stockett, Kathryn.
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The Help |
| Shreve, Anita.
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A change in altitude
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| Horan, Nancy |
Loving Frank: a novel
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| Larson, Erik
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The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair
that changed America
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| Zaslow, Jeffrey
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The girls from Ames : a story of women and friendship
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| Reding, Nick
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Methland : the
death and life of an American small town
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| Baker, Ellen
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Keeping the house
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| Larsson, Stieg
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The girl with
the dragon tattoo
- Audiobook |
| Bloom, Amy |
Away |
| Sandweiss, Martha A. |
Passing strange
: a Gilded Age tale of love and deception across the color line
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| Verghese, Abraham
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Cutting for
stone
- Audiobook |
| Beck, Martha Nibley
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Leaving the Saints : how I lost the Mormons and
found my faith
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| Dawkins, Richard
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The ancestor's
tale : a pilgrimage to the dawn of evolution
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| Gordon, Noah
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The last Jew
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| Gordon, Noah
|
The physician
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| Viswanathan, Padma
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The Toss of a Lemon |
| McCorkle, Jill |
Going away shoes
: stories |
| Berg, Elizabeth
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Open House
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| Berg, Elizabeth
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Joy school
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Recommendations from the September 12, 2009
book chat
| Beck,
Martha Nibley
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Leaving the Saints : how I lost the Mormons and
found my faith
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| Cleave,
Chris |
Little Bee |
| DeFede, Jim |
The Day the world Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander,
Newfoundland |
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Dunant, Sarah |
Sacred Hearts |
| Follett,
Ken |
Pillars of the Earth |
| Gautreaux, Tim |
The missing |
| Gregory, Philippa |
The White Queen |
| Jordan,
Hillary |
Mudbound |
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Lamb, Cathy |
Henry's sisters |
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Larsson, Stieg |
The Girl with the dragon tattoo |
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Kimmel, Haven |
The Used World |
| Matalon Lagnado,
Lucette |
The man in the white sharkskin suit : a Jewish
family's exodus from Old Cairo to the New World |
| Mullen, Thomas |
The Last Town on Earth |
| Pollan, Michael |

In Defense of Food : an eater's manifesto |
| Russo, Richard |
That Old Cape Magic |
| See, Lisa |
Shanghai Girls |
| Strout, Elizabeth |
Olive Kitteridge |
| Verghese, Abraham |
Cutting for stone : a novel
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Wizenberg, Molly |
A Homemade Life: stories and recipes from my Kitchen |
Recommendations from the
June 6, 2009
book chat
| Adiga,
Aravind |
The white tiger |
| Ackerman, Diane |
The Zookeeper's wife |
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Baker, Tiffany
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| Barbery, Muriel |
The elegance of the hedgehog |
| Barrett, Andrea |
The voyage of the Narwhal |
| Birdsall, Jeanne |
The Penderwicks : a summer tale of four sisters, two
rabbits, and a very interesting boy |
| Brennert, Alan |
Moloka'i |
| Brennert,
Alan |
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Bryson, Bill
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| Chabon, Michael |
The Yiddish Policemen's Union |
| Connelly, Michael |
The scarecrow |
| Downey, Kirstin |
The woman behind the New Deal : the life
of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and his
moral conscience |
| Dunn, Sarah |
Secrets to happiness |
| Eugenides, Jeffrey |
Middlesex |
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Finder, Joseph
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| Fitzgerald,
F. Scott |
Tender is the night |
| Gaskell, Elizabeth |
North and south |
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Gerritsen, Tess
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| Gladwell,
Malcolm |
Blink : the power of thinking without thinking
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Kingsolver, Barbara
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| Larsson, Stieg |
The Girl with the dragon tattoo |
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Lutz, Lisa
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| McCourt,
Frank |
Teacher man : a memoir |
| Miller, Sue |
The senator's wife |
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Montgomery, Sy
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O'Brien, Stacey |
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| Penny,
Louise |
Still Life |
| Perry, Thomas |
Silence |
| Phillips,
Gin |
The well and the mine |
| Pollan,
Michael |
In defense of food : an eater's manifesto
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| Rosnay,
Tatiana de |
Sarah's key |
| Rotenberg, Robert |
Old City Hall |
| Sofer, Dalia |
The Septembers of Shiraz |
| Steel,
Danielle |
Amazing grace |
| Stockett, Kathryn |
The help |
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Tyler, Anne
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| Umrigar, Thrity N |
The weight of heaven |
| Walls, Jeannette |
The glass castle |
| Wroblewski, David. |
The story of Edgar Sawtelle |
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