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Book Group

 Betty

Join the fun! Join the dialogue! Be in the know! Come to Wellesley Books' lunchtime book club on a Tuesday 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, June 4th at noon. The books to be discussed -- The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander -- are both finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year. You can read either or both: 

The Snow Child (Paperback)

By Eowyn Ivey
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780316175661
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Published: Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books, 11/2012
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories (Paperback)

By Nathan Englander
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780307949608
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Published: Vintage, 3/2013
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The Garden of Evening Mists (Paperback)

By Tan Twan Eng
$15.99
ISBN-13: 9781602861800
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Published: Weinstein Books, 9/2012
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A Land More Kind Than Home (Paperback)

By Wiley Cash
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780062088239
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks, 1/2013
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Watergate (Paperback)

By Thomas Mallon
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780307474650
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Published: Vintage, 1/2013
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Team of Rivals: Lincoln Film Tie-in Edition (Paperback)

By Doris Kearns Goodwin
$21.00
ISBN-13: 9781451688092
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 11/2012
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The Night Circus (Paperback)

By Erin Morgenstern
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780307744432
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Published: Anchor, 9/2012
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Last Man in Tower (Paperback)

By Aravind Adiga
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780307739834
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Published: Vintage, 9/2012
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Wolf Hall (Paperback)

By Hilary Mantel
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780312429980
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Published: Picador, 8/2010
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The Sense of an Ending (Paperback)

By Julian Barnes
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780307947727
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Published: Vintage, 5/2012
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Salvage the Bones (Paperback)

By Jesmyn Ward
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781608196265
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Published: Bloomsbury USA, 4/2012
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The Submission (Paperback)

By Amy Waldman
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781250007575
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Published: Picador, 3/2012
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Great Expectations (Mass Market Paperback)

By Charles Dickens
$4.95
ISBN-13: 9780553213423
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Published: Bantam Classics, 5/2003

You Know When the Men Are Gone (Paperback)

By Siobhan Fallon
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780451234391
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Published: NAL Trade, 1/2012
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The Tiger's Wife (Paperback)

By Tea Obreht
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780385343848
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 11/2011
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Foreign Bodies (Paperback)

By Cynthia Ozick
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780547577494
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Published: Mariner Books, 11/2011
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The Widower's Tale (Paperback)

By Julia Glass
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780307456106
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Published: Anchor, 9/2011
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A Visit from the Goon Squad (Paperback)

By Jennifer Egan
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780307477477
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Published: Anchor, 5/2011
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A Soldier of the Great War (Paperback)

By Mark Helprin
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9780156031134
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Published: Mariner Books, 6/2005
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The Story of a Marriage (Paperback)

By Andrew Sean Greer
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780312428280
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Published: Picador, 3/2009
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The Line (Paperback)

By Olga Grushin
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780143118558
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Published: Penguin Books, 3/2011
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Paperback)

By Rebecca Skloot
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781400052189
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Published: Broadway, 3/2011
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The Lotus Eaters (Paperback)

By Tatjana Soli
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780312674441
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin, 12/2010
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The Tender Bar: A Memoir (Paperback)

By J. R. Moehringer
$15.99
ISBN-13: 9780786888764
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Published: Hyperion, 7/2006
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The Age of Innocence (Paperback)

By Edith Wharton, Louis Auchincloss
$9.95
ISBN-13: 9780375753206
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Published: Modern Library, 3/1999

Moloka'i (Paperback)

By Alan Brennert
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780312304355
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin, 10/2004
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Birds of America: Stories (Paperback)

By Lorrie Moore
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780307474964
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Published: Vintage, 4/2010
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)

By Carson McCullers
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780618526413
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Published: Mariner Books, 4/2004
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Cutting for Stone (Paperback)

By Abraham Verghese
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780375714368
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Published: Vintage, 1/2010
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Tinkers (Paperback)

By Paul Harding
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781934137123
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Published: Bellevue Literary Press, 1/2009
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)

By Harper Lee
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780060935467
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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 3/2002
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A Passage to India (Paperback)

By E.M. Forster
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780156711425
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Published: Mariner Books, 3/1965
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Brooklyn (Paperback)

By Colm Toibin
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781439148952
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Published: Scribner, 3/2010
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Paperback)

By Joseph J. Ellis
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780375705243
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Published: Vintage, 1/2000
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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
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 6/2010
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Paperback)

By Flannery O'Connor
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780156364652
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Published: Mariner Books, 8/1977
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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
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 8/1996
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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
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780312427801
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Published: Picador, 2/2009
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Say You're One of Them (Paperback)

By Uwem Akpan
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780316086370
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Published: Back Bay Books, 9/2009
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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 (New Oprah #1) (Paperback)

By John Steinbeck
$18.00
ISBN-13: 9780142004234
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Published: Penguin Books, 6/2003
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Steinbeck's masterpiece is the essential textbook on good vs. evil. Compelling.

In the Woods (Paperback)

By Tana French
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780143113492
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Published: Penguin Books, 6/2008
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A real mystery in which a detective determined to use his past to solve a crime gets overwhelmed by it.

Mudbound (Paperback)

By Hillary Jordan
$14.95
ISBN-13: 9781565126770
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 3/2009
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The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Paperback)

By Jeffrey Toobin
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781400096794
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Published: Anchor, 9/2008
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A view inside the Rehnquist court. Full of wonderful tidbits with notable cases to follow.

Run (Paperback)

By Ann Patchett
$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780061340642
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Published: Harper Perennial, 8/2008
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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
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Published: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 9/2007
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Strapless (Paperback)

By Deborah Davis
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9781585423361
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Published: Tarcher, 5/2004
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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
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Published: Vintage, 1/2007
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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
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781594483295
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Published: Riverhead Trade, 9/2008
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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, Michele Roberts
$13.00
ISBN-13: 9780140449129
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Published: Penguin Classics, 12/2002
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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
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Published: Scribner, 11/2006
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What ensues when college activists/revolutionaries try to settle down.

Mister Pip (Paperback)

By Lloyd Jones
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780385341073
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Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback, 5/2008
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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
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Published: Mariner Books, 4/2008
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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
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Published: Anchor, 4/2008
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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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