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Are you part of a book club or looking to start one? Day for Night by Jean McNeil makes a great book club pick! Richard Cottar is a respected independent film writer and director; his wife, Joanna, is his increasingly successful and wealthy producer. Together they are about to embark on a film about the life of Walter Benjamin, the German Jewish intellectual who killed himself in northern Spain while on the run from the Nazis in 1940. In what looks set to be the last year of Britain’s membership of the European Union, Benjamin’s story of exile and statelessness is more relevant...
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Are you part of a book club or looking to start one? Cracked Pots by Heather Tucker makes a great book club pick! Heather Tucker’s invincible heroine, Ari Appleton, returns in Cracked Pots. With wit, tenacity, and the incessant meddling of Jasper — the seahorse in her head — Ari rides waves of devilry and discovery, calamity and creation, abandonment and atonement on a journey to find her true self. Cracked Pots is a diversely relatable story about what breaks us, rising after the blows, gathering the fragments, and piecing together a spectacular life through creativity, kindness, and belonging. Book Club Questions...
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Are you part of a book club or looking to start one? Time Squared by Lesley Krueger makes a great book club pick! A clever young woman meets a handsome soldier. Their love story unfolds through romance and misunderstandings, but with a twist: Eleanor and Robin they keep jumping through time, and only Eleanor knows that it’s happening. Book Club Questions 1. Eleanor Crosby travels through time, landing in many different time periods. It is possible for someone’s personality to remain stable when her circumstances change so abruptly? 2. Of all the time periods in the novel, which one would...
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Are you part of a book club or are you looking to start one? The Call of the Rift: Crest by Jae Waller makes a great book club pick! Kateiko is back in the third installment of the alternative high historical fantasy Call of the Rift series. Before Flight, in another world beyond the veil, Kateiko must leave her family to salvage a life she once desperately wanted, or stay with them and build a new life with those she swore to protect. Book Club Questions In the early chapters, Kateiko feels “spiritually defective” for not having attuned yet. How does her sense...
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Are you part of a book club or are you looking to start one? Deceptions by Anna Porter makes a great book club pick! Anna Porter’s feisty art fraud heroine Helena Marsh returns in Deceptions, chasing down a long-lost Artemisia painting while staying one step ahead of the eastern European mobsters and art thieves who covet it and will do anything — even kill — to make it theirs. Book Club Questions Deceptions and its heroine delve into the murky world of art fraud and theft. A famous stolen painting is often in the headlines but stories of the business of fake...