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1200 Corporate Parkway; Wentzville
(636) 332-9966 |
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Tuesday, March 25
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Tuesday, April
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The Hindi-Bindi
Club
by Monica Pradhan
Published
2007 by Bantam Books
Paperback, English. ISBN:
9780553384529
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An elegant tapestry
of East and West, peppered with food and ceremony, wisdomand
sensuality, this luminous novel breathes new life into
timeless themes offamily and place.
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The Innocent Man:
Murder  and Injustice in a Small
Town
by John Grisham
Published 2006 by Doubleday
Books
Hardcover, English. ISBN:
9780385517232
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Grisham's first work
of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone
terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet.
Those who believe in "innocent until proven guilty" or that
the criminal justice system is fair will be shocked and
infuriated.
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Alias Grace
by Margaret Atwood
Published
1999 by Nan A. Talese
Hardcover, English. ISBN:
9780385475716
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REVIEW: Publisher's
Weekly 10/07/1996
Intrigued by
contemporary reports of a sensational murder trial in 1843
Canada, Atwood has drawn a compelling portrait of what might
have been. Her protagonist, the real life Grace Marks, is an
enigma. Convicted at age 16 of the murder of her employer,
Thomas Kinnear, and his housekeeper and lover, Nancy
Montgomery, Grace escaped the gallows when her sentence was
commuted to life in prison, but she also spent some years in
an insane asylum after an emotional breakdown. Because she
gave three different accounts of the killings, and because she
was accused of being the sole perpetrator by the man who was
hanged for the crime, Grace's life and mind are fertile
territory for Atwood. More
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Deer Run Branch |
1300 North Main; O'Fallon 63366
(636) 978-3261 |
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Thursday, March 20
10:00 am |
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Thursday, April 17
10:00 am |
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Thursday, May
15
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The Joy Luck
Club
by Amy Tan
Published 1989 by
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Hardcover, English. ISBN:
9780399134203
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In 1949 four Chinese
women-drawn together by the shadow of their past-begin meeting
in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim
sum, and 'say' stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck
Club.More
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Eat Cake
by Jeanne Ray
Published 2003
by Shaye Areheart Books
Hardcover, English. ISBN:
9780609610046
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REVIEW: Publisher's
Weekly 05/19/2003
Ruth, a Minneapolis
wife and mother, bakes to relax the way others do yoga. And
it's a good thing she does, because a house full of
cantankerous family members seriously challenges her ability
to remain serene in this fluffy, enjoyable third novel by Ray
(Julie and Romeo; Step-Ball-Change). Cake is Ruth's version of
Zen, allowing her to lose herself in the ritual of familiar
smells and precise measurements.
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Emma
by Jane Austen
Published 1966
by Penguin Books
Paperback, English. ISBN:
9780140430103
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Kathryn Linnemann Branch |
2323 Elm Street; St. Charles 63301
(636) 946-0789 |
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Monday, March 31
7:00 pm |
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Monday, April 28
7:00 pm |
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Monday, May 19
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Cooking for
Harry
by Kay-Marie James
Published
2004 by Ballantine Books
Paperback, English. ISBN:
9780345453716
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Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's
America
by Andrew Ferguson
Published 2007 by Atlantic
Monthly Press
Hardcover, English. ISBN:
9780871139672
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Before he grew up and
became one of Washington's most respected reporters and
editors, Andrew Ferguson was, of all things, a Lincoln buff.
Like so many sons of Illinois before him, he hung photos of
Abe on his bedroom wall, memorized the Gettysburg Address, and
read himself to sleep at night with the Second Inaugural or
the "Letter to Mrs. Bixby." Ferguson eventually outgrew his
obsession. But decades later, his latent buffdom was reignited
by a curious headline in a local newspaper: Lincoln Statue
Stirs Outrage in Richmond. "Lincoln?" thought Ferguson.
"Outrage? I felt the first stirrings of the fatal question,
the question that, once raised, never lets go: Huh?" In Land
of Lincoln, Ferguson embarks on a curiosity-fueled
coast-to-coast journey through contemporary Lincoln Nation,
encountering everything from hatred to adoration to
opportunism and all manner of reaction in between.
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The Final
Solution: A Story of Detection
by Michael Chabon
Published
2004 by Fourth Estate
Hardcover, English. ISBN:
9780060763404
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In the Pulitzer
Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and
Clay, prose magician Michael Chabon conjured up the golden age
of comic books -- intertwining history, legend, and
storytelling verve. In The Final Solution, he has condensed
his boundless vision to craft a short, suspenseful tale of
compassion and wit that reimagines the classic
nineteenth-century detective story. In deep retirement in the
English country-side, an eighty-nine-year-old man, vaguely
recollected by locals as a once-famous detective, is more
concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into
his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who
has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an
African gray parrot. More
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Kisker Road Branch |
1000 Kisker Road; St. Charles 63304
(636) 926-READ |
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Tuesday, March 18
7:00 pm |
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Tuesday, April 15
7:00 pm |
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Tuesday, May
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Murder Between the
Covers: A Dead-End Job Mystery: A  Dead-End Job
Mystery
by Elaine Viets
Published 2003 by Signet
Book
Mass Market Paperbound, English. ISBN:
9780451210814
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Helen Hawthorne has a
new job "off the books" at a bookstore in Fort
Lauderdale--until the owner is murdered. But since the
arrogant man had so many enemies, Helen will have to read
between the lines to uncover the truth about a clever killer.
Original.
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Manhunt: The
12-Day Chase  for Lincoln's
Killer
by James L. Swanson
Published 2006 by William
Morrow & Company
Hardcover, English. ISBN:
9780060518493
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Combining historical
research with page-turning narration, this is the first book
devoted to the 12 dramatic days between the murder of
President Abraham Lincoln and the capture of his
killer.
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Water for
Elephants
by Sara Gruen
Published 2006
by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Hardcover, English.
ISBN: 9781565124998
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Though he may not
speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob
Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of
himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train
that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on
Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with
wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with its own
narrow, irrational rules, its own way of life, and its own way
of death. The world of the circus: to Jacob it was both
salvation and a living hell.
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McClay Branch |
2760 McClay Road; St. Charles
(636) 441-7577 |
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Wednesday, March 5
1:30 pm |
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Wednesday, April 2
1:30 pm |
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Wednesday, May 7
1:30 pm |
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Animal, Vegetable,
Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver
Published 2007 by HarperCollins
Publishers
Hardcover, English. ISBN:
9780060852559
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Notes:
In her first
full-length nonfiction narrative, bestselling author
Kingsolver opens readers' eyes in a hundred new ways to an old
truth: you are what you eat. The bestselling author returns
with a wise and compelling celebration of family, food,
nature, and community. More
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Jury of One
by Laura Bradford
Published
2005 by Hilliard & Harris Publishers
Paperback,
English. ISBN: 9781591330943
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Left to Tell:
Discovering  God Amidst the Rwandan
Holocaust
by Immaculee Ilibagiza
Published 2007 by Hay
House
Paperback, English. ISBN:
9781401908973
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Her life ripped apart
by the bloody genocide that broke out in Rwanda in 1994,
Ilibagiza forged a profound and lasting relationship with God
through prayer and discovered a love so strong she was able to
seek out and forgive her family's killers.
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May 7
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A Twist of Lemmon:
A Tribute to My Father
by Chris Lemmon
Published 2006
by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Hardcover, English.
ISBN: 9781565124806
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Notes:
Jack Lemmon was one
of our most beloved movie stars. A two-time Academy Award
winner, he appeared in dozens of memorable films, including
such classics as "Some Like It Hot, Mister Roberts, The Odd
Couple, Grumpy Old Men, Missing, The Apartment," and "The
China Syndrome." On-screen, he came across as a kind of "
everyman" -- audiences loved him because they felt they knew
him, because he was on of them.
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Standing in the
Rainbow
by Fannie Flagg
Published 2004
by Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperbound, English.
ISBN: 9780804119351
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Good news! Fannie's
back in town--and the town is among the leading characters in
her new novel.
Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady
with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep
us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet
Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand
lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren
and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and
charismatic Hamm Sparks, who starts off in life as a tractor
salesman and ends up selling himself to the whole state and
almost the entire country; and the two women who love him as
differently as night and day.
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The Glass Castle:
A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls 
Published 2005 by Scribner
Book Company
Hardcover, English. ISBN:
9780743247535
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In the tradition of
Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But
the Shouting," Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming
memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric,
and severely misguided family. More
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2750 Hwy. K; O'Fallon 63368
(636) 978-7997 |
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Thursday, March 20
2:00 pm |
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Thursday, April 29
2:00 pm |
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Thursday, May 27
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Hideaway
by Hannah Alexander
Published
2003 by Steeple Hill
Paperback, English. ISBN:
9780373785070
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Devastated by her
sister's death, E.R. doctor Cheyenne Allison retreats to an
isolated farm in Hideaway, Missouri. But a dangerous vandal
terrorizes the town, and Cheyenne finds an unexpected demand
for her medical skills. More
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Tell No One
by Harlan Coben
Published 2001
by Delacorte Press
Hardcover, English. ISBN:
9780385335553
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REVIEW: Publisher's
Weekly 05/07/2001
Every writer likes to
stretch his legs, and here Coben, author of seven acclaimed
Myron Bolitar mysteries (Darkest Fear, etc.), stretches his.
He doesn't quite kick his reputation aside in the process.
This thriller, Coben's first non-Bolitar novel, is a breezy
enough read, but it's not up to snuff. It's got a nifty setup,
though. David Beck and Elizabeth Parker, just-married
childhood sweethearts, are vacationing at the Beck family
retreat when Beck is knocked unconscious and Elizabeth is
kidnapped. Cut to eight years later: Beck is a young physician
working with ghetto kids in Manhattan, and Elizabeth, we
learn, is dead, victim of a serial killer known as KillRoy. Or
is she? For immediately after two bodies eight years old are
uncovered on the Beck land, Beck receives a series of e-mails
apparently from Elizabeth. His frantic search to find out if
she lives dovetails with the equally frenzied efforts of cops
to pin Elizabeth's murder on Beck, as well as the antic moves
of a mysterious billionaire an old friend of the Beck family
and his two hired thugs to frame Beck for that murder.
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Eye of the
Wolf
by Margaret Coel
Published
2005 by Berkley Publishing Group
Hardcover, English.
ISBN: 9780425205464
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Notes:
REVIEW: Publisher's
Weekly 08/01/2005
Bestseller Coel's
descriptive artistry, as shown in her 11th whodunit (after
2004's Wife of Moon ), surely makes her the James Lee Burke of
Native American mystery writers. Readers will be immediately
entrenched in the solid reality of the Wind River Reservation
and Father John O'Malley's alarm on receiving a cryptic
voice-mail message that leads him to a century-old battlefield
and three newly slain Shoshones. Could these be revenge
killings for the bloody battle that took place between the now
co-existing Arapahos and Shoshones?
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1825 Commonfield Rd; Portage des
Sioux 63373
(636) 753-3070 |
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The Murder of
Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
Published
2004 by Berkley Publishing Group
Mass Market
Paperbound, English. ISBN: 9780425200476
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House Calls and
Hitching  Posts: Stories from Dr. Elton
Lehman's Career Among the
Amish
by Elton Lehman
Published 2005 by Good
Books
Paperback, English. ISBN:
9781561485024
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"House Calls and
Hitching Posts" is the sometimes humorous, often intimate
account of Dr. Lehman's 36 years practicing medicine among the
Amish of Ohio.
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The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
Published
1998 by Picador USA
Paperback, English. ISBN:
9780312195519
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The red tent is the
place where women gather during their cycles of birthing,
menses, and even illness. Like the conversations and mysteries
held within this feminine tent, this sweeping piece of fiction
offers an insiders look at the daily life of a biblical
sorority of mothers, wives, and daughters.
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427 Spencer Road; St. Peters 63376
(636) 441-0794 |
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The Other Boleyn Girl
by Philippa Gregory
Published
2004 by Touchstone Books
Hardcover, English. ISBN:
9780743269834
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Gregory's first
installment of her "New York Times" bestselling series ow the
basis is n feature film from Sony Pictures, starring Eric
Bana, Scarlett Johansson, and Natalie Portman, set for release
on December 21. Two ferociously ambitious sisters, Mary and
Anne Boleyn, are rivals for the bed and heart of King Henry
VIII.
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Angry Housewives
Eating Bon  Bons
by Lorna Landvik
Published
2004 by Ballantine Books
Paperback, English. ISBN:
9780345442826
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The women of Freesia
Court are convinced that there is nothing good coffee,
delectable desserts, and a strong shoulder can't fix. Laughter
is the glue that holds them together--the foundation of a book
group they call AHEB (Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons), an
unofficial "club" that becomes much more. It becomes a
lifeline. Holding on through forty eventful years, there's
Faith, a lonely mother of twins who harbors a terrible secret
that has condemned her to living a lie; big, beautiful Audrey,
the resident sex queen who knows that with good posture and an
attitude you can get away with anything; Merit, the shy
doctor's wife with the face of an angel and the private hell
of an abusive husband; Kari, a wise woman with a wonderful
laugh who knows the greatest gifts appear after life's
fiercest storms; and finally, Slip, a tiny spitfire of a woman
who isn't afraid to look trouble straight in the eye.
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The Pursuit of
Happyness
by Chris Gardner 
Published 2006 by Amistad
Press
Hardcover, English. ISBN:
9780060744861
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Gardner goes from the
highs of landing an apprenticeship on Wall Street to the nadir
of being homeless with a toddler in tow. Persevering even when
he and his son slept in public bathrooms, this self-made
millionaire never let his dire circumstances define
him.
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