BOOK CLUB CLASSICS!

The Life You’ve Imagined by Kristina Riggle Release date: 2010 / 334 pages Synopsis (from the back cover): In high school, Cami and Anna were as close as they could be. Now, years later, both have returned to the hometown to face the people they have left behind… First Sentence: The taxicab exhaust curls up around me like [...]

The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen Publication date/ Length: 2010 / 269 pages Synopsis (from the jacket cover): “Emily Benedict came to Mullaby, North Carolina hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother’s life. Such as, why did Dulcie Shelby leave her hometown so suddenly?  And why did she vow [...]

This Must Be the Place by Kate Racculia Release date: 2010 / 350 pages First line: “Amy considered the postcard: a boardwalk scene.” Synopsis (from back cover): “When Arthur Rook learns that his vital, creative wife, Amy, has been killed in an accident, he realizes to his horror that he has no idea what her last [...]

My Fathers’ Daughterby Hannah Pool Publication date/ Length: 2009 / 288 pages Synopsis (from Booklist): Following her mother’s death in childbirth—and the erroneous notation of her father’s death as well—Pool was adopted by a white couple and transplanted from Eritrea. She eventually grew up in middle-class comfort in England, missing the hardships, deprivation, and war in [...]

  Once in a Blue Moon by Eileen Goudge Release date: 2010 / 323 pages Synopsis (from back cover): While growing up, it was Lindsey’s job to look after her little sister, Kerrie Ann. When the girls’ stripper mom was sent to prison for selling drugs, their neighbor, a retired exotic dancer by the name of [...]