BOOK CLUB CLASSICS!

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Release date: 2007 / 290 pages
First line: Every smiley moon, without fail, Claire dreamed of her childhood.”
Synopsis(from back cover): “In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small house in the smallest of towns, is an apple tree rumored to bear a very special sort of [...]

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Release date: 2003 / 400 pages
First lines: “Dear Franklin, I’m unsure why one trifling incident this afternoon has moved me to write to you.  But since we’ve been separated, I may most miss coming home to deliver the narrative curiosities of my day, the way a cat might [...]

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
Release date: 2008 / 324 pages
First line: “Henry and I dug the hole seven feet deep. Any shallower and tghe corpse was liable to come rising up during the next big flood: Howdy boys! Remember me?”
Synopsis (from jacket cover): “When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in [...]

Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos
Release date: 2008 / 390 pages
First line: “My fall from suburban grace, or, more accurately, my failure to achieve the merest molehill of surburban grace from which to fall, began with a dinner party and a perfectly innocent, modestly clever, and only faintly quirky remark about Armand Assante.”
Synopsis [...]

Keeper and Kid by Edward Hardy
Release date: 2007 / 294 pages
First line: “If dogs, rats, and pigs can all sense a looming earthquake and make plans, how come all I can manage is a quick stare at the phone just before it rings?”
Synopsis (from jacket cover): “Eight years ago, James Keeper fell in love with [...]