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 Betty

Join the fun! Join the dialogue! Be in the know! Come to Wellesley Booksmith's lunchtime book club on the first Tuesday of each month at noon. Munch your food while we chew on ideas with Betty Sudarsky, unparalleled bookseller and experienced book club leader. Bring your own lunch, head downstairs to the Used Book Cellar, and talk with your mouth full! Drop-ins are welcome, whether or not you've read the book.

Next meeting is Tuesday, September 7th at noon. The book will be:

Cutting for Stone (Paperback)

By Abraham Verghese
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780375714368
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Vintage, 01/01/2010

Tinkers (Paperback)

By Paul Harding
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781934137123
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Bellevue Literary Press, 01/01/2009

To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)

By Harper Lee
$12.99
ISBN-13: 9780060935467
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 03/01/2002

A Passage to India (Paperback)

By E.M. Forster
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780156711425
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Mariner Books, 03/01/1965

Brooklyn (Paperback)

By Colm Toibin
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781439148952
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Scribner, 03/01/2010

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Paperback)

By Joseph J. Ellis
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780375705243
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Vintage, 01/01/2000

The relationships and politics of the country's founders are fascinating while the struggles are not that different from what we face today.


Let the Great World Spin (Paperback)

By Colum Mccann
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780812973990
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 06/01/2010

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Paperback)

By Flannery O'Connor
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780156364652
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Mariner Books, 08/01/1977

One of the masters of American short ficiton, Ms. O'COnnor received the posthumous National Book Award this year. Her stories are startling and blunt, funny and poignant and totally unique. Her vision is a bedrock of American life: strange and true.


Rabbit, Run (Paperback)

By John Updike
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780449911655
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Ballantine Books, 08/01/1996

Domestic life in the 60's that put Updike on the map. The writing alone merits all the attention.


The Housekeeper and the Professor (Paperback)

By Yoko Ogawa
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780312427801
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Picador, 02/01/2009

Say You're One of Them (Paperback)

By Uwem Akpan
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780316086370
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Back Bay Books, 09/01/2009

Brutal and heartwrenching, this important collection of stories set in Africa details the desperate lives of many of the continent's children. If reading the stories is difficult, it pales in comparison to living them.


East of Eden (Paperback)

By John Steinbeck
$18.00
ISBN-13: 9780142004234
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Penguin Books, 06/01/2003

Steinbeck's masterpiece is the essential textbook on good vs. evil. Compelling.


In the Woods (Paperback)

By Tana French
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780143113492
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 06/01/2008

A real mystery in which a detective determined to use his past to solve a crime gets overwhelmed by it.


The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Paperback)

By Jeffrey Toobin
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781400096794
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Anchor, 09/01/2008

A view inside the Rehnquist court. Full of wonderful tidbits with notable cases to follow.


Mudbound (Paperback)

By Hillary Jordan
Please email or call for availability and price
ISBN-13: 9781565126770
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 03/01/2009

Run (Paperback)

By Ann Patchett
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780061340642
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Harper Perennial, 08/01/2008

Ann Patchett's latest taking place in Boston in which identity and race criss-cross as a Dad does his best.


The Book Thief (Paperback)

By Markus Zusak
$12.99
ISBN-13: 9780375842207
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 09/01/2007

Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X (Paperback)

By Deborah Davis
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ISBN-13: 9781585423361
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Tarcher, 05/01/2004

The story of a John Singer Sargent portrait set amidst the French mores of the 1800's. A fine picture of Sargent and his friends.


Arthur & George (Paperback)

By Julian Barnes
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781400097036
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Vintage, 01/01/2007

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gets involved in the case of a falsely accused son of immigrants.


The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Paperback)

By Junot Diaz, Junot Da-Az
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ISBN-13: 9781594483295
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Riverhead Books, 09/01/2008

Going between the Dominican Republic and the U.S., this Pulitzer Prize-winner is an eye-opening view of the difficulties and joys of living in the U.S. as a foreigner.


Madame Bovary (Paperback)

By Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall (Translator), Michele Roberts (Preface by)
$12.00
ISBN-13: 9780140449129
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Penguin Classics, 12/01/2002

The Flaubert classic of adultery and expectation and a woman who can't win. Sparked a discussion about privilege.


Eat the Document (Paperback)

By Dana Spiotta
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780743273008
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Scribner, 11/01/2006

What ensues when college activists/revolutionaries try to settle down.


Mister Pip (Paperback)

By Lloyd Jones
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780385341073
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback, 05/01/2008

A book about imagination as taught on an island by an unlikely teacher and a wonderfully receptive class amidst the backdrop of barbarism. The discussion made the book even richer.


The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Paperback)

By Mohsin Hamid
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780156034029
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Mariner Books, 04/01/2008

A timely "dialogue" between a young Pakistani and an unnamed listener that details the path from a Princeton education to dissention with Western way of life. Fascinating. We had differing opinions on the ending.


The Secret of Lost Things (Paperback)

By Sheridan Hay
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780307277336
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Anchor, 04/01/2008

Both a coming of age novel and a roman a clef about the quirks of life at The Strand Bookstore. This was our first selection.


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