VB Reads... General Lit

Join Cindi and discuss books from a variety of genres

at 7 pm, the first Monday of each month.

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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery (Paperback)

By Alan Bradley

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780385343497
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Bantam, 1/2010

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Monday, June 3, 7:00pm

It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath.

The Paris Wife (Paperback)

By Paula Mclain

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780345521316
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Ballantine Books, 11/2012

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Monday, July 1, 7:00pm

A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal that captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Paperback)

By Cheryl Strayed

$15.95

ISBN-13: 9780307476074
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage, 4/2013

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Monday, August 5, 7:00pm

A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.

Monday, September 9, 7:00pm

(please note: meeting has been delayed one week due to Labor Day)

VOTING MONTH!!

Everyone welcome. Brings your suggestions. We will choose our books for 2014.

Gone Girl (Hardcover)

By Gillian Flynn

$25.00

ISBN-13: 9780307588364
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Crown, 6/2012

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Monday, October 7, 7:00pm

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River.

The Bartender's Tale (Hardcover)

By Ivan Doig

$27.95

ISBN-13: 9781594487354
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Riverhead Hardcover, 8/2012

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Monday, November 4, 7:00pm

Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called The Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last refuge of the town of Gros Ventre, in northern Montana. Tom also has a son named Rusty, an “accident between the sheets” whose mother deserted them both years ago.The pair make an odd kind of family, with the bar their true home, but they manage just fine.

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (Hardcover)

By Laura Hillenbrand

$28.00

ISBN-13: 9781400064168
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Random House, 11/2010

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Monday, December 2, 7:00pm

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.