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"Samurai's Garden" by Gail Tsukiyama

 

Spice up your book club with some of these titles from the SLCL Book Kit Collection. Many of these selections are what I like to call "a diamond in the rough," books that may have passed under your radar.  
 
"Montana, 1948" by Larry Watson: Twelve...
"Under the Jolly Roger" by LA Meyer

Out of the Napoleonic era, LA Meyer brings us a swashbuckling young woman who conquers the high seas and all other formidable obstacles, whether natural or of human design. The ...

Does your book discussion group have difficulty coming up with titles? Does your group spend too little time talking about the book and too much time deciding what to read the next month? Is your group having a five minute book discussion followed by 55 minutes of talk about other things?

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"Mrs. Bridge" by Evan S. Connell

 

Most readers by now have heard about Gillian Flynn's huge bestseller "Gone Girl," in which the...

As someone who came of age in the mid-1980s, I was all too familiar with Andrew McCarthy, the actor. He starred in such movies as "St. Elmo's Fire," "...

Read St. Louis

St. Louisans love to read. The city was recently ranked the ninth most literate city in the U.S. So it's no surprise that Read St. Louis, the community wide...

"Ever After" by Kim Harrison

"Ever After" is Kim Harrison's newest entry in the Hollows/Rachel Morgan series. It is her most ambitious book to date. It opens with a psychotic demon...

"A Working Theory of Love" by Scott Hutchins

Neill is a divorced, mid-30s guy living in San Francisco and stumbling though life. He works for a start-up company that is attempting to create the first truly intelligent computer. The computer is modeled on his father, who committed suicide in 1996 and left more than 20 years of journals....

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