Books for Book Clubs

A Canadian water company executive is killed in a black township of Johannesburg. His death brings together three women who will seek to either investigate, cover up or justify the death of this executive.

(17 copies)     Reserve

On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie another chance at life.

(15 copies)     Reserve

Balram Halwai is many things: escapee, chauffeur, keen observer and "social entrepreneur." He is also a loquacious correspondent, telling his tale in a series of letters to Wen Jiabao, the Chinese Premier who is planning a state visit to India. He paints a harsh picture of a modern India, one in which there are but two castes - Big Bellies and Small Bellies.

(14 copies)     Reserve

Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress who grew up in the West Indies on a decaying plantation. When she comes of age she is married off to an Englishman, and he takes her away from the only place she has known--a house with a garden where "the paths were overgrown and a smell of dead flowers mixed with the fresh living smell. Underneath the tree ferns, tall as forest tree ferns, the light was green. Orchids flourished out of reach or for some reason not to be touched."

(20 copies)     Reserve

An ambitious Chicago law associate is called to his hometown to execute the will of the town's most prominent citizen who has left his considerable fortune, not to his son, but to a derelict who holds the secrets of the town's history.

(15 copies)     Reserve

An engineer and his wife working in Egypt recall their early lives, then return to Toronto to live separate lives

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In nineteenth-century Yorkshire, the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes disaster for them and many others, even in the next generation. It is a tale of love, obsession, and revenge.

(12 copies)     Reserve