Books for Book Clubs

Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships

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Catherine Caldwell struggles with the demon Sammael for possession of an ancient relic that would give him power to rule the world.

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On the last day of 1999, a survivor grandmother in Tel Aviv shares with her granddaughter her tragic life story as a child hidden in a pit, with only a rat for company. The granddaughter tells the legend of ''Girl and Rat'' to her teacher; in 2009 those who heard it through her classmates establish an internet website with poems. From now on this memory is spread all over the world and becomes a myth. A future anthropologist, researching its mysterious roots in 2099, discovers Father Stanislaw's personal journal documenting his rescue of that little Jewish girl, and so the chain of remembearers moves from the present to the future and back to the past.

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The famous scientist was murdered and the antimatter was missing. His dreams of a revolutionary scientific breakthough was in ruins. The Illuminati, a secret society has one goal. Will it succeed, and if it does what will it mean for one of the most powerful organizations in the world?

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Anton's family is destroyed when a Nazi collaborator is assassinated in the last dark days of war. When the grown-up Anton decides to uncover the circumstances surrounding his family's brutal murder, what he eventually replays are events that are infinitely more complex and morally ambiguous than childhood memories will allow.

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During the Cultural Revolution in Communist China of the '60s and '70s the two teenage boys are sent to a mountain village. They find themselves transformed when they uncover a forbidden treasure trove: a suitcase filled with Western literary classics. The secret books become the catalyst for provocative and unexpected ending.

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The urban sensibility of immigrant Jewish Montreal is chronicled in this darkly satirical portrait of 67-year-old Barney Panofsky.

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A midwife in rural Nova Scotia fights to keep her traditions alive when a doctor arrives with promises of fast and easy childbirth

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Father Duncan MacAskill is called the Exorcist, not of devils and demons but of pedophile priests. He does not enforce ex-communication of offending priests, but at the request of his Bishop, arranges for them to be sent to discreet clinics or other parishes. This novel offers an insight into the Catholic church sex abuse scandals.

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In apartheid South Africa, Marit has moved from the city to her husband's family farm where Tembi, the new housekeeper, has also been separated from her past, and the two forge an alliance when war breaks out.

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