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Hidden Figures – Margot Lee Shetterly, 368p (NF) The River of Doubt – Candice Millard, 416p (NF) 402-293-3157 Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford, 301p The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion, 295p www.bellevuelibrary.org The Alchemist. Coelho, Paulo. 197p. Paulo Coelho How to Find Love in a Bookshop – Veronica Henry, 340p The Round House – Louise Erdrich, 321p To reserve a kit, email: [email protected] tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian The Husband’s Secret – Liane Moriarty, 464p The Sandcastle Girls – Chris Bohjalian, 299p shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly I Am a Man – Joe Starita, 257p (NF) The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd, 302p treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different and I Am Malala – Malala Yousafzai, 330p (NF) The Shack - William P. Young, 252p ABOUT THE KITS: far more satisfying than he ever imagined. I Shall Be Near to You – Erin Lindsay McCabe, 321p Sixteen Brides – Stephanie Grace Whitson, 348p . Kits include: 10 copies of the book, a Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot, 381p (NF) Small Great Things – Jodi Picoult, 470p In a Dark, Dark Wood – Ruth Ware, 352p Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See, 269p discussion materials folder, and a tote bag. Ask Again, Yes. Keane, Mary Beth. 390p. Francis In the Land of Second Chances - George Shaffner, 314p Sold on a Monday – Kristina McMorris, 343p . Kits check out for 6 weeks (NO Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, NYPD cops, are neighbors In the Unlikely Event – Judy Blume, 512p The Song of the Lark – Willa Cather, 326p renewals). in the suburbs. A lifelong friendship and love blossoms The Invention of Wings – Sue Monk Kidd, 384p State of Wonder – Ann Patchett, 353p . Registered book clubs from Bellevue, between their children Kate and Peter, born 6 months Killers of the Flower Moon – David Grann, 338p (NF) Still Alice - Lisa Genova, 293p apart. One shocking night their loyalties are divided, The Kitchen House – Kathleen Grissom, 368p The Story of Arthur Truluv -- Elizabeth Berg, 222p La Vista, Plattsmouth and Papillion are The Language of Flowers – Vanessa Diffenbaugh, 334p The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry – Gabrielle Zevin, 288p testing their bond over the next 30 years. eligible to participate. A Lantern in Her Hand - Bess Streeter Aldrich, 408p Tallgrass - Sandra Dallas, 305p . Registration allows the club to check 257p (NF). The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt… - Bill Bryson, 270p (NF) The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane – Lisa See, 371p Comet’s Tale. Wolf, Steven. A former hard- The Light Between Oceans – M.L. Stedman, 352p This Blessed Earth -- Ted Genoways, 228p (NF) out Book Club Kit books ONLY. driving attorney, Steven Wolf has reluctantly left his job Lilac Girls – Martha Hall Kelly, 487p Those Who Save Us – Jenna Blum, 482p Acceptance of the card is the club’s and family and moved to Arizona. There he is drawn to a Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng, 338p The Tiger’s Wife – Tea Obreht, 338p agreement to comply with the library’s group that rescues abused greyhounds. Although he can Little Heathens - Mildred Armstrong Kalish, 292p (NF) True Sisters – Sandra Dallas, 341p barely take care of himself because of a spinal condition, The Little Paris Bookshop – Nina George, 416p Unbroken – Laura Hillenbrand, 473p (NF) rules and regulations. . Book discussion kits must be returned Wolf adopts Comet. The question is who rescues whom? Local Wonders - Ted Kooser, 153p (NF) Waltzing at the Piggly Wiggly - Robert Dalby, 309p (Donated by the Riverside Book Club, Waterloo). A Long Way from Home – Connie Briscoe, 318p The Warrior of the People – Joe Starita, 304p (NF) to the main desk. DO NOT place kits in any Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold, 328p Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen, 350p bookdrops. The Cookbook Club. Harbison, Beth. 348p. 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Clubs may be charged in a bar and restaurant, and Aja, a good-natured yoga The Meaning of Names – Karen Gettert Shoemaker, 219p Whispers of the Bayou – Mindy Starns Clark, 337p overdues. instructor, single and pregnant with a child, form the The Memory Keeper’s Daughter - Kim Edwards, 401p The Wife Between Us -- Greer Hendricks, 346p Cookbook Club that allows the women to share good food Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker – Jennifer Chiaverini, 356p The Winter People – Jennifer McMahon, 400p For a complete listing of book club kit titles and while supporting each other through respective Murder on a Bad Hair Day - Anne George, 246p Woman on the Orient Express – Lindsay Jayne Ashford, 322p to check for availability, check our website challenges. My Antonia - Willa Cather, 272p The Worst Hard Time - Timothy Egan, 340p (NF) under Services & Resources>Book Clubs>Book My Dear Hamilton – Stephanie Dray, 641p The Wright Brothers – David McCullough, 336p (NF) The Dutch House. Patchett, Ann. 337p. Cyril Conroy My Name Is Mary Sutter – Robin Oliveira, 364p The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman, 368p (NF) Club Kits. My Wish List -- Gregoire Delacourt, 165p builds a real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. He buys the Dutch House, a Working on a newspaper, she investigates the death of German word for tattooist). One day in July 1942, Lale, Breakfast at Sally’s – LeMieux, Richard, 433p (NF) lavish estate. Then son Danny and older sister, Maeve, Cleo Sherwood, a missing Black woman whose body was comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have Breaking Creed – Kava, Alex, 310p are exiled from the house where they grew up by their discovered in the city park lake. a number tattooed onto her arm. With that first encounter, The Bride Wore Size 12 – Cabot, Meg, 392p stepmother. The two siblings are thrown back into poverty Lale to somehow survive the camp and marry her. Calling Me Home – Kibler, Julie, 325p Code Girls – Mundy, Liza, 416p (NF) and find that all they have to count on is one another. The Last Train to Key West. Cleeton, Chanel. 296p. In 1935 three women are forever changed when a powerful 450p. 1932, The Current – Johnston, Tim, 408p This Tender Land. Krueger, William Kent. Dead as a Door Knocker – Kelly, Diane, 356p Evvie Drake Starts Over. Holmes, Linda. 293p. In a hurricane barrels toward the Florida Keys. Keys native Minnesota--the Lincoln School is where hundreds of The Devil in the White City – Larson, Erik, 447p (NF) sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth Helen Berner yearns to escape. Cuban socialite Mirta Native American children, forcibly separated from their The Dry – Harper, Jane, 328p "Evvie" Drake rents an apartment to Dean Tenney, former Perez agrees to an arranged marriage. Elizabeth parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to The Fall of Marigolds – Meissner, Susan, 370p Major League pitcher who can't throw straight anymore. Preston's trip to Key West is a chance to save her once- orphan Odie O'Banion, whose exploits earn him the A Gentleman in Moscow – Towles, Amor, 462p An unexpected friendship soon turns into something more. wealthy family after the Wall Street crash. superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and a few The Great Alone – Hannah, Kristin, 440p others head for the Mississippi and a place to call their House Rules – Picoult, Jodi, 631p The Girl You Left Behind. Moyes, Jojo. 369p. French The Mother-in-Law. Hepworth, Sally. 368p. Exquisitely The Late Bloomers’ Club – Miller, Louise, 325p own. (Donated by the Brown Baggers Book Club). The Life We Bury – Eskens, Allen, 303p artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his young wife, Sophie, to polite and friendly, Lucy's mother-in-law Diana has nonetheless always kept her at arm's length. Now, Diana The Lost City of Z – Grann, David, 339p (NF) go to war. A German officer is obsessed with her portrait, Three Sisters, Three Queens. Gregory, Philippa. Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe – Webber, Heather, 333p and Sophie will risk everything to see her husband again. is suddenly dead, a suicide note found near her body 556p. United in sisterhood by birth and marriage, The Only Woman in the Room – Benjamin, Melanie, 258p Almost a century later, the portrait is given to Liv Halston, claiming a cancer that the autopsy report says doesn't Katherine of Aragon, Queen of England; Margaret Tudor, The Red Address Book – Lundberg, Sofia, 260p and a chance encounter reveals the painting's true worth. exist, and Lucy finds herself in the center of a murder Queen of Scots; and Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Shanghai Girls – See, Lisa, 322p (Donated by the Papillion Senior Center Book Club). investigation. (Donated by the Mission School Book Club). immediately recognize each other as both allies and rivals Some Luck – Smiley, Jane, 395p in the treacherous world of court and national politics. Someone Knows – Scottoline, Lisa, 387p The Guest Book. Blake, Sarah. 492p. This historical Nebraska POW Camps. Marsh, Melissa Amateis. Romance, scandal, war, and religion inextricably unite Still Life – Penny, Louise, 312p tale follows the lives of three generations of New 170p (NF). During World War II, thousands of Axis Sworn to Silence – Castillo, Linda, 363p these three for better or for worse. (Donated by the The Victory Garden – Bowen, Rhys, 353p England's wealthy Milton family from the 1930s through prisoners of war were held throughout Nebraska in base Friends of the Bellevue Public Library). camps that included Fort Robinson, Camp Scottsbluff and We Were the Lucky Ones – Hunter, Georgia, 403p the present. Blake also recounts some of America's own Women Rowing North – Pipher, Mary, 262p (NF) growing pains during this period. Camp Atlanta. Drawing on first-person accounts from Winter Trees. Stokely, Kim. 300p. Meet the residents

soldiers, former POWs and Nebraska residents, as well as and staff of Marigold Manor Assisted Living: Ginny, the Additional Book Club Kit Titles: Hillbilly Elegy. Vance, J.D. 264p (NF). In postwar archival research, Melissa Marsh delves into the grieving Activities Director; Chester, the facility's friendly The Alice Network – Kate Quinn, 503p America, J. D.'s grandparents moved from Kentucky's neglected history of Nebraska's POW camps. chef with a secret; Edith, the practical farmer's widow; and Appalachia region to Ohio, trying to escape poverty. As The All-Girl Filling Station’s … – Fannie Flagg, 404p Frank, the retired Navy Admiral. Edith and Frank conspire All Is Not Forgotten – Wendy Walker, 310p the family saga plays out, we learn that family members Pioneers: The Heroic Story of Settlers Who Brought to play matchmaker between Ginny and Chester. The task 330p All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr, 431p struggled profoundly with the demands of their new the American Ideal West. McCullough, David. isn't an easy one, but the two matchmakers know that All the Missing Girls – Megan Miranda, 371p (NF). middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, As part of the Revolutionary War treaty, Britain everyone deserves a second chance at love. America’s First Daughter – Stephanie Dray, 590p alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest American Heiress - Daisy Goodwin, 468p part of America. Territory. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three Witch Elm. French, Tana. 509p. Toby, a happy-go- An American Marriage – Tayari Jones, 308p remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal lucky charmer, returns from celebrating with friends and Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons - Lorna Landvik, 404p In Five Years. Serle, Rebecca. 255p. Dannie Kohan education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for The Apple Orchard – Susan Wiggs, 325p The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein, 321p has a new job and a marriage proposal, falling asleep dead. Struggling to recover, he takes refuge at his family's 325p. The Astronaut Wives Club – Lily Koppel, 272p (NF) completely content. When she wakes, she seems to be in The Silent Patient. Michaelides, Alex. Alicia ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a a different life. Dannie spends one hour exactly five years Berenson's life is seemingly perfect -- a famous painter At the Water’s Edge – Sara Gruen, 392p skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree in the garden - The Aviator’s Wife – Melanie Benjamin, 402p in the future before she wakes again in her own home on married to an in-demand fashion photographer. One and as detectives close in, Toby is forced to face the The Beach Trees – Karen White, 432p the brink of midnight--but it is one hour she cannot shake. evening Alicia shoots her husband and then never speaks possibility that his past may not be what he has always Before I Go to Sleep – S.J. Watson, 360p another word. Alicia's refusal to talk or give any kind of Before the Fall – Noah Hawley, 391p 264p (NF). believed. (Donated by the Eagle Crest Book Club). Inklings. Koterba, Jeffrey. When Jeffrey explanation turns a domestic tragedy into something far Beguiled – Thomas Cullinan, 372p Koterba was 6, he started drawing his first cartoons, grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination The Woman in the Photo. Hogan, Mary. 406p. On her Big Stone Gap - Adriana Trigiani, 304p copying them from the Sunday Omaha World Herald, and and casts Alicia into notoriety. 18th birthday, genetic information from Lee Parker's Black Elk Speaks – John Neihardt, 369 (NF) The BOOB Girls – Joy Johnson, 178p escaping into a world that was a refuge from the closed adoption is unlocked. She sees an old photograph pandemonium of the family life surrounding him. (Donated Slightly South of Simple. Harvey, Kristy Woodson. The Bookshop at Water’s End – Patti Callahan Henry, 328p of a genetic relative, standing in a pile of rubble from a Bossypants – Tina Fey, 250p (NF) by the Riverside Book Club, Waterloo). 392p. Ansley has always put her three daughters first, disaster next to Clara Barton, the founder of the American The Boston Girl – Anita Diamant, 322p

especially when she found out that her late husband left Red Cross. She’s determined to identify the woman in the The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown, 404p (NF) Inland. Tea Obreht. 382p. In the lawless, drought-ridden her with next to nothing. Now the proud owner of a design photo and unearth the mystery of that moment. (Donated Brooklyn – Colm Toibin, 288p Arizona Territory of 1893, Nora is an unflinching business in the small Southern town of Peach Bluff, her by the Eagle Crest Book Club). The Buddha in – Julie Otsuka, 129p frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life -- daughters move back home, and Ansley begins to feel like Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven - Fannie Flagg, 365p her husband and her elder sons. She must bide her time the piece of herself she had finally found might be slipping The Chaperone – Laura Moriarty, 371p with her youngest son and her husband's 17-year-old from her grasp. (Donated by the Book Ladies Book Club). Recent Titles: The Children’s Blizzard – David Laskin, 307p (NF) cousin, who communes with spirits. All the Gallant Men – Stratton, Donald, 306p (NF) Christmas Bells – Jennifer Chiaverini, 352p The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Morris, Heather. 262p. In Atomic Habits – Clear, James, 306p (NF) The Christmas Box – Richard Paul Evans, 125p The Lady in the Lake. Lippman, Laura. 340p. In 1966 April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly Beartown – Backman, Fredrik, 418p The Coincidence of Coconut Cake – Amy Reichert, 318p Before We Were Yours – Wingate, Lisa, 342p Cold Dish – Craig Johnson, 354p Baltimore, Madeline “Maddie” Schwartz was a pampered transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz- housewife. Now she's bolted from her marriage of almost Beloved – Morrison, Toni, 321p The Couple Next Door – Shari Lapena, 308p Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks The Book Woman of Trouble … – Richardson, Kim, 308p Crazy Horse - Mari Sandoz, 428p (NF) 20 years, determined to live a passionate, meaningful life. several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the The Bookshop – Fitzgerald, Penelope, 156p Crazy Rich Asians – Kevin Kwan, 403p