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Bookshelf Stores, Inc., Truckee
Book Club usually meets on the third Tuesday of the month in the welcoming atmosphere of the Truckee Library.

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Everyone is welcome to attend.

 



 

PREVIOUS BOOKSHELF BOOK CLUB PICKS

$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780061583261
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Published: Harper Paperbacks, 3/2011
November 2011 Pick

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$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780061988257
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Published: Harper Perennial, 5/2011
September 2011 Pick:

Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue—the daughter of an African mother she never knew and a white sailor who brought her into bondage—ZaritÉ, known as TÉtÉ, survives a childhood of brutality and fear, finding solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in her exhilarating initiation into the mysteries of voodoo.

Girl in Translation (Paperback)

$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781594485152
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Published: Riverhead Trade, 5/2011
August 2011 Pick:

When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but also herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.

$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780393339710
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 4/2011
July 2011 Pick:

“The Lonely Polygamist is the story of 45-year-old Golden Richards, a hapless soul, whose four wives, 28 children, and one paramour run his life. By turns laugh-out-loud funny and hauntingly sad, this novel is a big, fat, satisfying read that will make you reconsider what it means to be part of a family. Plus, it contains the naughtiest, goofiest 11-year-old boy who will ever break your heart.”
-- Roberta Dyer, Broadway Books, Portland, OR

$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780385720960
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Published: Anchor, 4/2011
June 2011 Pick:

On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the slice. To her horror, she finds that her cheerful mother tastes of despair. Soon, she’s privy to the secret knowledge that most families keep hidden: her father’s detachment, her mother’s transgression, her brother’s increasing retreat from the world. But there are some family secrets that even her cursed taste buds can’t discern.

$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780743247542
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Published: Scribner, 1/2006
May 2011 Pick:

"The Glass Castle is the saga of the restless, indomitable Walls family, led by a grand eccentric and his tempestuous artist wife. Jeannette Walls has survived poverty, fires, and near starvation to triumph. She has written this amazing tale with honesty and love."

-- Patricia Bosworth, author of Anything Your Little Heart Desires and Diane Arbus: A Biography

$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780452296725
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Published: Plume, 10/2010
April 2011 Pick:

“Tracy Chevalier brings history alive in Remarkable Creatures, which fictionalizes the story of Mary Anning, a young fossil hunter, who in the early 1800s makes a discovery along the English seacoast that challenges the world views of geologists and theologians. Chevalier's skillful storytelling takes the reader back in history to walk in the footprints of this remarkable woman.”

-- Carol Hicks, Bookshelf At Hooligan Rocks, Truckee, CA

Tinkers (Paperback)

$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781934137123
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Published: Bellevue Literary Press, 1/2009
February 2011 Pick:

Pulitzer Prize

American Library Association Notable Book

PEN / Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers Award

“In Paul Harding’s stunning first novel, we find what readers, writers and reviewers live for.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Zeitoun (Paperback)

$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780307387943
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Published: Vintage, 6/2010
February 2011 Pick:

The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina.

$11.99
ISBN-13: 9780316013697
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 4/2009
January 2011 Pick:

Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he thought he was destined to live.