Books for Discussion-- Salt Lake County Library System Book Club Set Collection

The Devil in the White City:Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

2012-01-20T17:05:00.002-07:00

Their fates were linked by the magical Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, nicknamed the “White City” for its majestic beauty. Architect Daniel Burnham built it; serial killer Dr. H. H. Holmes used it to lure victims to his World’s Fair Hotel, designed for murder. Both men left behind them a powerful legacy, one of brilliance and energy, the other of sorrow and darkness.

447 pages

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The author's website
An interview with the author at RandomHouse.com (print)
A list of websites related to the book's content (from RandomHouse.com)

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A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

2012-01-20T17:05:00.001-07:00

In the Midwest just after the September 11 attacks, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin comes of age amid such challenges as racism, the War on Terror, and cruelty in the name of love, as she leaves her family's farm to attend college and takes a part-time job as a nanny.
321 pages

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A conversation with the author (NYTimes.com video)

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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W, Durrow

2012-01-20T17:05:00.000-07:00

After a family tragedy orphans her, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., moves into her grandmother's mostly black community in the 1980s, where she must swallow her grief and confront her identity as a biracial woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.
264 pages

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The author's website
A conversation with the author (video)

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The Good Daughters by Joyce Maynard

2012-01-20T17:03:00.001-07:00

They were born on the same day, in the same small New Hampshire hospital, into families that could hardly have been less alike. Different in nearly every way, Ruth and Dana share a need to make sense of who they are and to find their places in a world in which neither has ever truly felt she belonged.
278 pages

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The author's website

The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell

2012-01-20T17:03:00.000-07:00

Frustrated with her parents' genteel country life, Lexie Sinclair plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent, a magazine editor who introduces her to the thrilling, underground world of bohemian, postwar Soho. She learns to be a reporter, comes to know art and artists, and embraces her freedom fully. So when she finds herself pregnant, she doesn't hesitate to have the baby on her own. Later, in present-day London, a young painter named Elina dizzily navigates the first weeks of motherhood and finds she can't remember giving birth, while her boyfriend Ted is flooded with memories and images he cannot place. As their stories unfold—moving in time and changing voice chapter by chapter—a connection between the three of them takes shape that drives the novel towards a tremendous revelation.
341 pages

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The author talks about her book (video)

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

2012-01-20T17:02:00.002-07:00

Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers who put him to work in the kitchen, errands he runs in the streets, and one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. He discovers a passion for Aztec history and meets the exotic, imperious artist Frida Kahlo, who will become his lifelong friend. When he goes to work for Lev Trotsky, an exiled political leader fighting for his life, Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution, newspaper headlines and howling gossip, and a risk of terrible violence. Returning to the land of his birth on the eve of World War II, Shepherd believes he might remake himself in America's hopeful image and claim a voice of his own as an author. Then, through the darkening years after the war, political winds continue to toss him between north and south in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach—the lacuna—between truth and public presumption.
507 pages

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Frequently asked questions about the book at the author's website

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Pearl of China by Anchee Min

2012-01-20T17:02:00.001-07:00

In the southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, two girls bump heads and become thick as thieves. Willow is the only child of a destitute local family. Pearl, the headstrong daughter of zealous Christian missionaries, will become Pearl S. Buck, Nobel Prize-winning writer and activist. Their friendship will be tested during decades of great tumult, by imprisonment and exile, bloody civil war and Mao’s repressive Communist regime.
278 pages

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Swamplandia by Karen Russell

2012-01-20T17:02:00.000-07:00

The Bigtree alligator-wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, formerly #1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, has just died; her sister, Ossie, has fallen in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, who may or may not be an actual ghost; and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, who dreams of becoming a scholar, has just defected to the World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep their family business from going under. Ava’s father, affectionately known as Chief Bigtree, is AWOL; and that leaves Ava, a resourceful but terrified thirteen, to manage ninety-eight gators and the vast, inscrutable landscape of her own grief.
315 pages

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

2012-01-20T17:01:00.000-07:00

Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family, her octogenarian uncle hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to uncover the truth. Did Harriet run away or was she murdered?
644 pages

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Maps of the island at a website about the author
The official Stieg Larsson website

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Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back by Todd Burpo

2011-12-30T10:31:00.000-07:00

When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. Colton, not yet four years old, told his parents he left his body during the surgery. He talked of visiting Heaven and relayed stories told to him by people he met there whom he had never met in life, sharing events that happened even before he was born.
163 pages

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Colton and his parents are interviewed on the Today Show (video)

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Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship by Gail Caldwell

2011-12-30T10:29:00.000-07:00

“It’s an old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.” They met over their dogs. Both writers, Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp, became best friends, talking about everything. They walked the woods of New England and rowed on the Charles River, and the miles they logged on land and water became a measure of the interior ground they covered. The friendship helped them define the ordinary moments of life as the ones worth cherishing. Then, several years into this remarkable connection, Knapp was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.
190 pages

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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

2011-11-09T12:56:00.000-07:00

In the 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals in a small town in rural Mississippi. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry was the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, black single mother. But then Larry took a girl to a drive-in movie and she was never seen or heard from again. He never confessed . . . and was never charged.

More than twenty years have passed. Larry lives a solitary, shunned existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has become the town constable. And now another girl has disappeared, forcing two men who once called each other "friend" to confront a past they've buried for decades.
274 pages

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Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok

2011-11-09T12:53:00.000-07:00

When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life--like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition--Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.
293 pages

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The author describes her book (video)

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Mothers and Other Liars by Amy Bourret

2011-11-09T12:52:00.000-07:00

Ten years ago, Ruby Leander was a drifting nineteen-year-old who made a split-second decision at an Oklahoma rest stop. Fast forward nine years: Ruby and her daughter Lark live in New Mexico. Lark is a precocious, animal loving imp, and Ruby has built a family for them with a wonderful community of friends and her boyfriend of three years. Life is good. Until the day Ruby reads a magazine article about parents searching for an infant kidnapped by car-jackers. Then Ruby faces a choice no mother should have to make. A choice that will change both her and Lark's lives forever.
288 pages

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The author's website

Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay

2011-11-09T12:51:00.000-07:00

When Nina Revskaya puts her remarkable jewelry collection up for auction,the former Bolshoi Ballet star finds herself overwhelmed by memories of herhomeland, and of the events, both glorious and heartbreaking, that changed herlife half a century earlier. It was in Russia that she discovered the magic ofdance and fell in love, and where, faced with Stalinist aggression, a terriblediscovery incited a deadly act of betrayal—and an ingenious escape to the West.
466 pages

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The Stormchasers by Jenna Blum

2011-11-09T12:38:00.000-07:00

As a teenager, Karena Jorge has always taken care of hertwin brother, Charles. Obsessed with severe weather, Charles, who suffers frombipolar disorder, begins chasing storms. Refusing to take his medication,Charles soon involves them both in a terrifying tornado chase--with deadlyconsequences.

Now, two decades later, Karena must find her long-estranged brother before hereveals the dark secret from their past or hurts himself-or someone else. Butthere is only one way to find him: the storms...

373 pages

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Sweet Misfortune by Kevin Alan Milne

2011-11-09T12:37:00.000-07:00

Sophie owns a chocolate shop where she sells Misfortune Cookies --- dipped in bitter chocolate they contain messages she hand writes each day such as "Your car seems fine now, but just wait..." What starts as a gimmick, turns into a surprise hit with customers. But when her ex-fiancée moves back to town, he is surprised at how bitter and unhappy Sophie has become. He proposes a bet --- she must place an ad in the paper that simply states "Wanted: Happiness."If at least 100 people respond, proving happiness isn't a myth, she agrees to a date with him. If not, he'll leave her alone forever. Sophie is convinced she'll win, but fate has other ideas.

281 pages

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The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart

2011-11-09T12:36:00.000-07:00

Balthazar Jones has livedin the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pettortoise for the past eight years. That’s right, he is a Beefeater (they reallydo live there). It’s no easy job living and working in the tourist attractionin present-day London. When Balthazar is tasked with setting up an elaboratemenagerie within the Tower walls to house the many exotic animals gifted to theQueen, life at the Tower gets all the more interesting. Penguins escape,giraffes are stolen, and the Komodo dragon sends innocent people running fortheir lives. Balthazar is in charge and things are not exactly runningsmoothly. . .
304 pages

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The Widower's Tale by Julia Glass

2011-11-09T12:34:00.000-07:00

Seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. But his routines are disrupted when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. As Percy sees his rural refuge overrun by children, parents, and teachers, he must reexamine the solitary life he has made in the three decades since the sudden death of his wife.
402 pages

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The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley

2011-11-09T12:33:00.000-07:00

In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart in Scotland to reclaim his crown. Now, Carrie McClelland hopes to turn that story into her next bestselling novel. Settling herself in the shadow of Slains Castle, she creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors and starts to write. But when she discovers her novel is more fact than fiction, Carrie wonders if she might be dealing with ancestral memory, making her the only living person who knows of the betrayal that happened all those years ago.
544 pages

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The author's website
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The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim

2011-10-18T09:24:00.001-06:00

In early-twentieth-century Korea, Najin Han, the privileged daughter of a calligrapher, longs to choose her own destiny. Smart and headstrong, she is encouraged by her mother--but her stern father is determined to maintain tradition, especially as the Japanese steadily gain control of his beloved country. Narrowly escaping an arranged marriage, Najin pursues a coveted education and is surprised to find love. After one day of marriage a denied passport separates her from her new husband, who continues alone to America. As a decade passes and the world descends into war, Najin loses touch with her husband. Will the love they share be enough to sustain her through the deprivation her country continues to endure?
386 pages

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Interview with the author at her website (print)

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Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

2011-10-17T17:39:00.002-06:00

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, they are bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine. The twins come of age in an Ethiopia on the brink of revolution, where their love for the same woman drives them apart.
541 pages

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The author talks about his book (video)

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The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors by Michele Young-Stone

2011-10-17T17:16:00.002-06:00

Eight-year-old Becca Burke was struck by lightning. No one believed her—not even when her watch kept losing time and a spooky halo of light appeared overhead in photographs. Becca was struck again when she was sixteen. She survived, but over time she would learn that outsmarting lightning was the least of her concerns.

Buckley R. Pitank’s world seemed plagued by disaster. Ashamed of his obese mother, fearful of his grandmother, and always running from bullies, he needed a miracle to set him free. At thirteen years old, Buckley witnessed a lightning strike that would change everything.

When Buckley and Becca finally meet, neither is prepared for the charge of emotions—or for the perilous event that will bring them even closer to one another, and to the families they’ve been running from for as long as they can remember.
372 pages

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The author's website

The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

2011-10-17T16:55:00.002-06:00

Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project. During that time she test-drove the wisdom of the ages, current scientific research, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier. Among other things, she found that novelty and challenge are powerful sources of happiness; that money can help buy happiness, when spent wisely; that outer order contributes to inner calm; and that the very smallest of changes can make the biggest difference.
301 pages

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The Happiness Project Blog
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

2011-10-17T16:03:00.003-06:00

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks is buried in an unmarked grave. The story of Henrietta and her family is part of the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.

369 pages

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Discussion guide from ReadingGroupChoices.com

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Interview with the author for Smithsonian Magazine (print)
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Room by Emma Donoghue

2011-10-17T15:00:00.002-06:00

To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer.

321 pages

Books for Discussion-- Salt Lake County Library System Book Club Set Collection

The Devil in the White City:Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W, Durrow

The Good Daughters by Joyce Maynard

The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

Pearl of China by Anchee Min

Swamplandia by Karen Russell

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back by Todd Burpo

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship by Gail Caldwell

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok

Mothers and Other Liars by Amy Bourret

Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay

The Stormchasers by Jenna Blum

Sweet Misfortune by Kevin Alan Milne

The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart

The Widower's Tale by Julia Glass

The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley

The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors by Michele Young-Stone

The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Room by Emma Donoghue

Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer

Miss You Most of All by Elizabeth Bass

The Rebellion of Jane Clarke by Sally Gunning

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman

The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard

The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan

Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah

The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato

Henry's Sisters by Cathy Lamb

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonsen

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Bartlett

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

Something Missing by Matthew Dicks

The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker

Look Again by Lisa Scottoline

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas

Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

Sweet By and By by Todd Johnson

Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti

The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent

The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble

The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

They Did It With Love by Kate Morgenroth

The Guernsey Literary and the Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

Heart in the Right Place by Carolyn Jourdan

The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty

Run by Ann Patchett

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber

For One More Day by Mitch Albom

Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts

The Island by Victoria Hislop

Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm during the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish

One Thousand White Women:The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus

Escape by Carolyn Jessop

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

The Next Thing on My List by Jill Smolinski

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay