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Adult Book Discussion Kits

Book Discussion Kits are designed for book clubs and other groups to read and discuss the same book. The kits include multiple copies of the book and a discussion guide. Some kits include Large Print copies (noted below in the subject area). Additional Large Print, CDbooks or DVDs may be added upon request, if available. The kit is checked out to one group member who is responsible for all the materials. Book Discussion Kits can be reserved in advance by calling the Adult Services Department, 314-994-3300 ext 2030. Kits may be picked up at any SLCL location, and should be returned inside the branch during normal business hours. To check out a kit, you’ll need a valid SLCL card. Kits are checked out for up to 8 weeks, and may not be renewed. Up to two kits may be checked out at one time to an individual. Customers will not receive a phone call or email when the kit is ready for pick up, so please note the pickup date requested. To search within this list when viewing on a computer, press the Ctrl and F keys simultaneously, then type your search term (author, title, or subject) into the search box and . Use the arrow keys next to the search box to navigate to the matches. For a full summary, please click on the title, which links to the library catalog. New Book Discussion Kits are in bold red font, updated 11/19. TITLE AUTHOR SUBJECTS 1984 George Orwell //totalitarianism Accident Chris Pavone /spies/assassins/publishing/manuscripts/Large Print historical/women spies/WWI/WWII/missing persons/pregnant women/Large The Alice Network Kate Quinn Print All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr historical/WWII/Europe/blind girls/fathers and daughters/Large Print Alpine for You Maddy Hunter cozy mystery/Passport to Peril series/Switzerland/humor/Large Print women's lives and relationships/life changes/married people/neighborhoods/ Alternate Side Anna Quindlen New York/Large Print African American/ domestic/ literary/ Southern/ families/ false imprisonment/ An American Marriage Tayari Jones men women relations/ Large Print historical/biographical fiction/Patsy Jefferson/fathers and America's First Daughter Stephanie Dray daughters/secrets/slavery/Large Print /magic/mothers and daughters/books and reading And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini historical/Afghanistan/family relationships/poverty/1952/Large Print Angels Walking Karen Kingsbury Christian fiction/Alzheimer's/nursing homes/janitors/miracles Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral Kris Radish female friendship/life changes/humor/psychological Arrowood Laura McHugh mystery/family secrets/kidnapping/Large Print Art Forger Barbara A. Shapiro mystery/art heists/Large Print Art of Racing in the Rain Garth Stein auto racing/dogs/human-animal relationships/Large Print science fiction/suspense/moon/space colonies/smuggling/conspiracies/Large Artemis Andy Weir Print Away Amy Bloom historical/immigrants/Jews/theatre Baker's Secret Stephen P. Kiernan historical/WWII/bakers/young women/resistance/Large Print recluses/women novelists/humor/Hollywood/mothers and sons/Ponzi Be Frank with Me Julia Claiborne Johnson schemes women's lives and relationships/breakups/relationships/widows/New Beach House Jane Green England/Large Print Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver Southwest/adoption/Native Americans Beartown Fredrik Backman hockey/scandals/small town life/Large Print Before I Go to Sleep S.J. Watson /memory loss/journals/movie/psychological/Large Print historical/parallel /brothers and Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate sisters/orphanages/kidnapping/Large Print

Behold Imbolo Mbue families/immigrants/race relations/social classes/American Dream/Large Print Bel Canto Ann Patchett love story/South America/terrorists/psychological Beneath a Scarlet Sky Mark Sullivan historical/coming of age/WWII/Italy Best of Me Nicholas Sparks small town life/North Carolina/first loves/movie/Large Print Betsey Brown Ntozake Shange historical/St. Louis/African American/Civil Rights Big Stone Gap Adriana Trigiani Virginia/mountain life/humor/single women/Large Print

Blessings Anna Quindlen domestic fiction/family secrets/legacies/household employees/Large Print Bonesetter's Daughter mother-daughter relationships/Chinese American families/Large Print literary/apocalyptic/pandemic/near future/memories/shadows/husbands Book of M Peng Shepherd and wives/travel/ The Book That Matters Most Ann Hood book clubs/divorced women/mothers and daughters/Large Print Boston Girl Anita Diamant historical/Jewish women/feminism/Large Print Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote & stories/classic/coming of age/movie Britt-Marie Was Here Fredrik Backman women/friendship/neighbors/Large Print Burial Rites Hannah Kent suspense/biographical fiction/Iceland/women murderers/Large Print Catch-22 Joseph Heller / WWII/ bombardiers/ classic Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger historical/1940s/coming of age/teenagers/classic Certain Justice P.D. James mystery/Britain/Adam Dalgliesh series/psychological Chaperone Liane Moriarty historical/1920s/celebrities/self-discovery/movie/ Large Print Children Ian McEwan legal stories/women judges/psychological/Large Print Christmas/historical/biographical fiction/Henry Wadsworth Longfellow/Large Christmas Bells Jennifer Chiaverini Print

Christmas Cake Murder Joanne Fluke Christmas/cozy mystery/gentle read/bakers/women detectives/Large Print Christmas List Richard Paul Evans Christmas/life changes/inspirational/Large Print Christmas Train David Baldacci Christmas/suspense/blizzards/love historical/biographical/Beryl Markham/women air pilots/love Circling the Sun Paula McLain triangles/Kenya/Large Print City of Women David Gillham historical/WWII/Europe/Jews Claire of the Sea Light Edwidge Danticat /Haiti/runaways/Large print Clubbed to Death Elaine Viets mystery/Dead-End Job series/Florida/humor Cold Sassy Tree Olive Burns historical/widowers/pre WWI Comfort Food Kate Jacobs cooking/mothers & daughters Commonwealth Ann Patchett domestic fiction/coming of age/family relationships/tragedy/1960s Asian American/ domestic/ families/ engaged couples/ Chinese Americans/ Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan rich people/ social / Singapore/ Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter Tom Franklin thriller/Mississippi/psychological Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese Africa/orphans/ Dark Places Gillian Flynn thriller/psychological/satanic cults/Midwest/mass murder/movie Darker Shade of Magic Victoria Schwab fantasy/magic/quantum theory Daughters of Mars Thomas Keneally historical/WWI/nurses/family secrets/Large Print Death in Brittany Jean-Luc Bannalec mystery//small towns/police Defending Jacob William Landay thriller/psychological/fathers & sons Doc Mary Doria Russell historical/Old West/cowboys/mid 19th century/Doc Holliday Dovekeepers Alice Hoffman historical/Jewish life/1st century science fiction/classic/movie/coming-of-age/life on other planets/genetic engineering/revolutions/ East of Eden family relationships/betrayal/life choices women's lives and relationships/single women/social Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman isolation/intergenerational friendship/Glasgow Scotland/Large Print Euphoria Lily King historical/anthropologists/New Guinea/love triangles

Every Heart a Doorway Seanan McGuire fantasy/mystery/magical schools/boarding schools/Wayward Children series Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng suspense/psychological/daughters/grief/Large Print literary fiction//war stories/ refugees/ immigration/ couples/civil Exit West Moshin Hamid war/fundamentalism/Large Print science fiction/book burning/censorship/political fiction/classic/satire Faithful Place Tana French mystery/Dublin Murder Squad series/Ireland/missing person/first love False Friend Myla Goldberg psychological/female friendship/secrets/missing person

Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin fantasy/African American/apocalypse/dystopias/missing persons/mothers historical/biographical/Maud Baum/Judy Garland/film Finding Dorothy Elizabeth Letts industry/independence in women/Large Print Barbara Kingsolver suspense/biologists/climate change/Appalachian Mountains/Large Print Garden Spells Sarah Addison Allen magical realism/gardens/sisters/small towns/North Carolina Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles historical/biographical/Russia/hotels/aristocracy/prisoners/Large Print Girl in Hyacinth Blue Susan Vreeland historical/Vermeer/art/artists/Large Print Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins psychological/suspense/witnesses/commuters//Large Print Girl Waits with Gun Amy Stewart mystery/historical/family secrets/sisters/Silk Workers Strike/Large Print Girl Who Fell from the Sky Heidi W. Durrow African American/biracial children/grandparents/1980s parallel narratives/historical/families/immigrants/Chinese Americans/Orca Girl Who Wrote in Silk Kelli Estes Islands/Seattle/Washington/Large Print Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier /Vermeer/art/artists/Large Print God Help the Child domestic fiction/African American/mothers and daughters/Large Print Good Earth Pearl S. Buck historical/family saga/women/China/classic Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor southern gothic/short stories/small town life/racism/poverty/classic Great Alone Kristin Hannah domestic fiction/historical/1970s/families/wilderness survival/Large Print literary/LGBTQ/AIDS/Brothers and sisters/mothers and Great Believers Rebecca Makkai daughters/Loss/Large Print 1920s/upper class/social status/extramarital affairs/American Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Dream/classic/movie Great Small Things Jodi Picoult race relations/racism/African American nurses/criminal defense lawyers Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society Mary Ann Shaffer historical/WWII/book clubs/letters/England/movie/Large Print historical/biographical Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls fiction/ranchers/horses/teachers/family/Texas/Arizona/Large Print Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Adichie historical/politics/1960s/Nigeria/movie Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood science fiction/dystopias/women/sexism/theocracy Heart and Soul Maeve Binchy heart clinics/nurses/women's lives and relationships/Dublin Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers psychological/southern gothic/racism/1940s/classic/movie

Homegoing Yaa Gyasi historical/African American/family /sisters/slavery/Africa/Large Print

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford historical/Japanese Americans/WWII/fathers & sons/love stories/Large Print

House of Mirth single women/upper class/social status/Gilded Age/New York City/classic

House Rules Jodi Picoult psychological/murder investigations/autism/Asperger's syndrome/Large Print historical/thriller/Post-WWII/families/deception/women pilots/Large Huntress Kate Quinn Print African American/women's lives and relationships/divorced women/Large I Almost Forgot about You Terry McMillan Print I Always Loved You Robin Oliveira historical/biographical fiction/artists/Mary Cassatt/Edgar Degas No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series/cozy mystery/female In the Company of Cheerful Ladies Alexander McCall Smith detectives/Botswana/humor

In the Unlikely Event Judy Blume life-change events/grief/homecoming/airplane accidents/friendship/Large Print

Interpreter of Maladies short stories/East Indian Americans/families/marriage/secrets/social customs

Into the Water Paula Hawkins psychological suspense/drowning/memory/orphans/teenage girls/Large Print historical/biographical fiction/women's rights/abolitionism/slavery/Sarah Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd Grimke/African American women/Large Print historical/South Korea/women divers/female friendship/family Island of Sea Women Lisa See secrets/Large Print historical/mystery/China/East India Company/librarians/Jesuit Jade Dragon Mountain Elsa Hart missionaries/political corruption Jam on the Vine LaShonda Katrice Barnett historical/African American/journalism/segregation/LGBTQ Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte governesses/country estates/orphans/love stories/England/classic/movie Japanese Lover Isabel Allende historical/older women/forbidden love/WWII/class difference/Large Print Karolina's Twins Ronald H. Balson historical/Poland/Holocaust survivors/Large Print Kindred Octavia Butler science fiction/time travel/slavery/African American women historical/plantations/indentured servants/slaves/1790s/interracial Kitchen House Kathleen Grissom relations/Large Print Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini male friendship/Afghanistan/social classes/betrayal Language of Flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh psychological/foster care/orphans/love stories/flowers/Large Print Lazaretto Diane McKinney-Whetstone historical/African American/immigration/race relations/quarantine psychological/suspense/missing person/mothers and Leaving Time Jodi Picoult daughters/elephants/grief/Large Print literary/romantic comedy/LGBTQ/authors/middle age/travel/former boyfriends/Large Print Lifeboat Charlotte Rogan psychological/historical/shipwreck/survival/1910s/Large Print Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman domestic fiction/marriage/foundlings/lighthouses/Australia/Large Print historical/WWII/Ravensbruck concentration camp/secrets/second Lilac Girls Martha Hall Kelly chances/Large Print Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders historical/Abraham Lincoln/grief/cemetaries/purgatory/spirits/Large Print historical/biographical/Madame Marie Tussaud/revolutionary Little Edward Carey France/orphans/waxworks/Large Print Little Bee Chris Cleave friendship/immigrants/refugees/Nigeria/London literary/multiple perspectives/adoption/family secrets/mothers and Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng daughters/female friendship/Large Print Little Paris Bookshop Nina George booksellers/bookstores/therapy/romance/psychological/Large Print The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Becky Chambers science fiction/ / interplanetary voyages/ classic/books to movies/banned/psychological/children/coming of Lord of the Flies William Golding age/wilderness survival Lost December Richard Paul Evans Christmas/Christian/love stories/inheritance/prodigal son/Large Print Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez Latin America/unrequited love/love triangles/classic/movie Loving Frank Nancy Horan historical/biographical fiction/love stories/architects/Frank Lloyd Wright Luncheon of the Boating Party Susan Vreeland historical/biographical fiction/art/artists/impressionism/Renoir/Large Print mystery/metafiction/murder investigation/editors/books and reading/Large Magpie Murders Anthony Horowitz Print widows/widowers/love stories/interracial Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson relationships/Pakistanis/England/Large Print Mama's Boy Reshonda Tate Billingsley African American/suspense/murder/mothers and sons Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman Sweden/older men/neighbors/friendship/humor/Large Print Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick science fiction/alternative history/Nazis/classic/movie Marriage of Opposites Alice Hoffman historical/biographical/Camille Pissaro/magical realism/Large Print Martian Andy Weir science fiction/Mars/astronauts/survival/movie/Large Print women's lives and relationships/wheelchair users/caregivers/suicidal Me Before You Jojo Moyes behavior/love stories/Large Print cozy mystery/gentle read/widows/illegitimate children/humor/small town Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind Ann B. Ross life/North Carolina Mistletoe Promise Richard Paul Evans Christmas/Christian/domestic fiction/secrets/divorced women historical mystery/Adelia Aguilar series/Medieval/serial Mistress of the Art of Death Ariana Franklin murders/forensics/Jews/England Moloka'i Alan Brennert historical/psychological/Hawaii/leprosy/women/1890s/Large Print Moonflower Vine Jetta Carleton historical/family saga/sisters/Missouri/farms literary fiction/African American//coming of age/teenage The Mothers Brit Bennett pregnancy/relationships/Large Print Mr. Dickens and His Carol Samantha Silva historical/biographical fiction/Christmas/Charles Dickens/writers

Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule Jennifer Chiaverini historical/biographical fiction/Julia Dent Grant/female friendship/Large Print historical/biographical fiction/Mary Todd Lincoln//female Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker Jennifer Chiaverini friendship/dressmakers/Large Print Mudbound Hillary Jordan African American/WWII/farms/Mississippi/race relations/veterans/movie Murder on the Iditarod Trail Sue Henry mystery/sled dogs/mushers/alaska Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie mystery/classic/Hercule Poirot series/trains/murder investigation/movie My Antonia domestic fiction/frontier life/immigrants/farms/Nebraska/classic

mainstream fiction/LGBTQ/midlife crisis/friendship/divorce/mothers and My Ex-Life Stephen McCauley dauthers/college applications/coatal towns/ My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry Fredrik Backman fairy tales/death/grandparents/life-change events/humor/Large Print My Name is Lucy Barton domestic fiction/psychological fiction/mothers and daughters/Large Print

Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri domestic fiction/children of immigrants/East Indian Americans/families/movie mystery/Inspector Armand Gamache series//missing children/Large Nature of the Beast Louise Penny Print science fiction/classic/hackers/conspiracy News of the World Paulette Jiles historical/travel/Kiowa Indians/orphans/widowers/Large Print Night Road Kristin Hannah psychological/domestic fiction/foster care/motherhood Nightingale Kristin Hannah historical/WWII/sisters/France/romance/Large Print literary/men-women relationships/misfits/social classes/Dublin, Normal People Sally Rooney Ireland/college students/emoitonal abuse/first loves/Large Print Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck mental disabilities/male friendship/ranch life/classic/movie

Old Man's War science fiction/Old Man's War Universe series/space warfare/space colonies Elizabeth Strout domestic fiction/retired teachers/small town life/tv show/Large Print

historical/literary/magical realism/Victorian era/Thames Once Upon a River Diane Setterfield river//drowning/resurrection/loss/family secrets/Large Print Ordinary Grace William Kent Krueger historical/coming of age/murder/families/Minnesota/1960s/Large Print historical/orphans/foster care/Penobscot Indians/older women/young Orphan Train Christina Baker Kline women/Maine/Large Print historical/WWII/circus/Holocaust/unplanned pregnancy/female Orphan's Tale Pam Jenoff friendship/Large Print historical/biographical fiction/Mileva Einstein-Mari/Albert Einstein/sexism in The Other Einstein Marie Benedict science/women physicists/extramarital relations/Large Print Our at Night Kent Haruf domestic fiction/Colorado/widows/small towns/love stories Outlander series/historical fantasy/time travel/Scotland/love stories/Jacobite Outlander Diana Gabaldon Rebellion/tv show historical/Koreans in Japan/families/immigrants/unplanned pregnancy/Large Pachinko Min Jin Lee Print Pact Jodi Picoult psychological/teenagers/suicidal behavior/murder trial/Large Print cotton farmers/Mexican migrants/baseball/children's secrets/coming of Painted House John Grisham age/Arkansas/Large Print of the Sower Octavia Butler African American/science fiction/classics//refugees/diary historical/biographical fiction/writers//Hadley Paris Wife Paula McLain Mowrer/France literary/psychological/LGBTQ/strong female/undocumented immigrants/family/Jamaican Americans/childhood friends/unrequited Patsy Nicole Dennis-Benn love Paying Guests Sarah Waters historical/widows/boarding houses/London/LGBTQ/Large Print People of the Book Geraldine Brooks historical/Judaism/books/illuminated manuscripts/Large Print domestic fiction/multiple perspectives/weddings/family Place for Us Fatima Farheen Mirza secrets/immigrants/East Indian Americans/Large Print domestic fiction/small town life/cattle Plainsong Kent Haruf farms/teenagers/bachelors/Colorado/Large Print Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen domestic fiction/love stories/sisters/courtship/classic/movie Princess Bride William Goldman fantasy/satire/adventure/pirates/princesses/humor/books/movie science fiction/space opera/documentary filmmaking/space Radiance Catherynne M. Valente flight/colonies/aliens Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry sociological/classic/African American/movie/racism/hardship science fiction/video games/1980s pop culture/dystopias/competitions/virtual Ernest Cline reality/movie psychological suspense//second Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier marriages/housekeepers/secrets/estates/England historical/psychological suspense/1900s/marriage of convenience/family Reliable Wife Robert Goolrick secrets/Large Print Rent Collector Camron Wright Cambodia/ragpickers romantic comedies/love stories/genetics professors/women Rosie Project Graeme C. Simsion bartenders/dating/Autism/Asperger's syndrome/humor/Australia Native Americans/crimes against women/reservations/Ojibwa Round House Indians/families/revenge African Americans/southern gothic fiction/first loves/homecomings/small town Ruby Cynthia Bond life/secrets/Large Print Safe Haven Nicholas Sparks love stories/small town life/widows/neighbors/secrets/Large Print Saint Mazie Jamie Attenberg historical/biographical/women/New York/1920s Sarah's Key Tatiana de Rosnay historical/WWII/France/Jews/women authors/family secrets/Large Print Saving CeeCee Honeycutt Beth Hoffman domestic fiction/humor/teenagers/families/eccentrics/Large Print Secret Chord Geraldine Brooks historical/biographical/King David/Bible stories/Large Print psychological suspense/mothers and daughters/family secrets/murder Secret Keeper Kate Morton witnesses/actresses/Great Britain African Americans/teenagers/beekeepers/sisters/coming of age Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd stories/racism/Large Print Shack William P. Young Christian fiction/missing children/murder/theodicy/God/suffering Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon magical realism/suspense/1940s/rare books/libraries/obsession/Spain psychological suspense/1950s/psychiatric hospitals/escaped Shutter Island Dennis Lehane criminals/delusions/conspiracies/movie

Small Great Things Jodi Picoult nurses/race relations/white supremacy/infant death/murder trials/Large Print historical/psychological/domestic fiction/19th century/foot binding/female Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Lisa See friendship/reminiscing/women's experience/secrets/movie Spool of Blue Thread domestic fiction/older people/reminiscing/storytelling Stardust fantasy/fairies/meteorites/witches/nobility/quests/England/movie The Stars are Fire Anita Shreve historical/domestic fiction/1947/fires/single mothers/Maine/Large Print science fiction/post-apocalypse/epidemics/actors/musicians/traveling theater/civilization/multiple perspectives/interpersonal relationships/Large Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel Print early onset Alzheimer's disease/college Still Alice Lisa Genova teachers/memory/families/movie/Large Print booksellers/bookstores/abandoned children/book theft/widows/romantic Storied Life of A.J. Fikry Gabrielle Zevin relationships/Large Print Sugar Camp Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini historical fiction/domestic fiction/quiltmakers/Underground Railroad literary/LGBTQ/rural life/former convicts/poverty/women/hydraulic Sugar Run Mesha Maren fracking Summer Before the War Helen Simonson historical/WWI/country life/women teachers/England/Large Print mainstream fiction/small towns/librarians/Carnegie libraries/intergenerational Summer Hours at the Robbers Library Sue Halpern friendships/Large Print historical/African American experience/female friendship/women's lives and Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat Edward Kelsey Moore relationships/1960s/race relations/Large Print mystery/Flavia De Luce series/1950s/English manor house/girl Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie C. Alan Bradley detectives/murder investigations/stamp collecting

Tallgrass Sandra Dallas historical/suspense/WWII/teenage girls/Japanese internment camps/1940s Akha (Southeast Asian people)/adoption of chinese children/mothers and Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane Lisa See daughters/cultural differences/Large Print

Tell No One Harlan Coben suspense/husbands and wives/murder/betrayal/spouses of murder victims

Things They Carried Tim O'Brien psychological/short stories/Vietnam War/soldiers/veterans/modern classic family sagas/domestic fiction/women/war/Afghanistan/intergenerational Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini friendship Time and Again Jack Finney science fiction/time travel/1880s/love stories/conspiracies/New York City Time Keeper Mitch Albom fantasy//Father Time/rich men/teenage girls/redemption coming of age stories/southern gothic fiction/families/girls/lawyers/racism/African American experience/trials/single fathers/classic/movie/Large Print

Tortilla Curtain T. Coraghessan Boyle ethnic relations/undocumented immigrants/Mexicans// coming of age stories/poor families/girls/1900s/children of immigrants/children Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith of alcoholics/city life/classic/movie Truly Madly Guilty Liane Moriarty psychological/thriller/family/marriage/sex/guilt/Large Print historical/women's fiction/coming of age/adventure/Vaudeville/poverty/Large Tumbling Turner Sisters Juliette Fay Print

Underground Railroad /African American/Underground Railroad/slavery/Large Print women's lives and relationships/amnesia/memory What Alice Forgot Liane Moriarty disorders/women/sisters/Large Print African American women/women's lives and What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day Pearl Cleage relationships/HIV/AIDS/homecomings/small town life literary/ coming of age/ young women/ naturalists/ murder investigation/ city Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens and town life/ North Carolina domestic fiction/humor/mothers and daughters/Antarctica/missing Where'd You Go, Bernadette Maria Semple persons/phobias/Large Print Whose Body? Dorothy Sayers mystery/classic/murder/private investigations/Lord Peter Wimsey series historical/1660s/Plague/quarantine/domestic workers/vicars/village Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks life/England coming of age stories/girls/African American women/nuns/Catholic Year the Colored Sisters Came to Town Jacqueline Guidry schools/race relations/racism/Louisiana Yellow Crocus Laila Ibrahim historical/African American women/girls/interracial friendship/slavery