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Paragraphs Bookstore's Book Club meets on the second Tuesday of each month.  The next meeting is March 13, and the selection is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

The Book Thief (Paperback)

By Markus Zusak
$12.99
ISBN-13: 9780375842207
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Published: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 9/2007
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Mudbound (Paperback)

By Hillary Jordan
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9781565126770
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 3/2009
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Set in the South after World War II, the book is about a city girl whose new husband wants to return to the family farm. Her new father-in-law is a nasty, evil man and into this mixture come two returning war heroes - one white and one black.

Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer (Hardcover)

By Wesley Stace
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780312680107
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Published: Picador, 2/2011
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Other than having the year's worst title, this ambitious and intricate book begins with the discovery of a double murder and suicide. The story is re-told three times, and each re-telling shifts and changes the narrative.

Old Filth (Paperback)

By Jane Gardam
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781933372136
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Published: Europa Editions, 6/2006
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Sir Edward Feathers, a pompous, retired eighty-year-old lawyer considers his life. Gardham, a British author, deserves a larger audience here in the United States.

Room (Paperback)

By Emma Donoghue
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780316098328
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Published: Back Bay Books, 6/2011
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Narrated by five-year-old Jack, this is a heartbreaking story of a mother's love and resilience as she raises a child conceived through a rape. They are prisoners in an eleven by eleven foot garden shed.

Secret Daughter (Paperback)

By Shilpi Somaya Gowda
$13.99
ISBN-13: 9780061928352
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks, 4/2011
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This is the story of two mothers. Kavita must leave her second daughter at a Mumbai orphanage. Somer is a San Francisco physician who travel to Mubai to adopt a little girl.

Great House (Hardcover)

By Nicole Krauss
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780393079982
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 10/2010
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(Paperback release 9-6-11) - The centerpiece of this book is an enormous desk with many drawers and secrets. Careful readers will be rewarded with a story of loss, memory, relationships, and creativity.
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