Bookclub Suggestions

by Chris Hall - Friday, Oct 07, 2011 at 5:09pm

Here are a few Bookclub suggestions from the booksellers of McNally Robinson.
Curiosity by Joan Thomas
Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Clara Callan by Richard Wright
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe

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Curiosity

- trade paperback

by Joan Thomas - $21.00 - Add to Cart

Award-winning novelist Joan Thomas blends fact and fiction, passion and science in this stunning novel set in 19th-century Lyme Regis, England -- the seaside town that is the setting of b...

HOMER & LANGLEY

- trade paperback

by El Doctorow - $17.00 - Add to Cart

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, THE KANSAS CITY STAR, AND BOOKLISTHomer and Langley Collyer are b...

The Children's Book

- trade paperback

by A.S. Byatt - $24.95 - Add to Cart

From the renowned author of Possession, The Children's Book is the absorbing story of the close of what has been called the Edwardian summer: the deceptively languid, blissful period that...

LABOR DAY

- trade paperback

by Joyce Maynard - $15.99 - Add to Cart

With the end of summer closing in and a steamy Labor Day weekend looming in the town of Holton Mills, New Hampshire, lonely, friendless thirteen-year-old Henry spends most of his time wat...

THE SLAP

- trade paperback

by Christos Tsiolkas - $18.99 - Add to Cart

The reverberations from the slap are far-reaching, affecting the marriages and friendships of all those who witness it. What unfolds is a powerful, haunting novel about love, sex, marriag...

HUNDRED SECRET SENSES

- trade paperback

by Amy Tan - $18.00 - Add to Cart

"The wisest and most captivating novel tan has written." -"The Boston Globe" Set in San Francisco and in a remote village of Southwestern China, Amy Tan's "The Hundred Secret Senses" is ...

FREEDOM

- trade paperback

by Jonathan Franzen - $21.99 - Add to Cart

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbour...

Crow Lake

- trade paperback

by Mary Lawson - $21.00 - Add to Cart

This slow-burning story set in the rough-hewn heart of the Canadian Shield was the most talked about debut at the London Book Fair in 2001. For the Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy whe...

COLD MOUNTAIN

- trade paperback

by Charles Frazier - $16.95 - Add to Cart

In 1997, Charles Frazier's debut novel "Cold Mountain" made publishing history when it sailed to the top of "The New York Times" best-seller list for sixty-one weeks, won numerous literar...

CLARA CALLAN

- trade paperback

by Richard B Wright - $19.99 - Add to Cart

Winner in 2001 of Canada's two most prestigious literary awards -- the Governor General's Award and the Giller Prize -- Richard B. Wright's celebrated novel Clara Callan is the powerful, ...

Girl With a Pearl Earring

- trade paperback

by Tracy Chevalier - $17.00 - Add to Cart

Girl With a Pearl Earring tells the story of Griet, a 16-year-old Dutch girl who becomes a maid in the house of the painter Johannes Vermeer. Her calm and perceptive manner not only helps...

The Last Crossing

- trade paperback

by Guy Vanderhaeghe - $22.99 - Add to Cart

Winner of CBC's Canada Reads 2004.Set in the second half of the nineteenth century, in the American and Canadian West and in Victorian England, The Last Crossing is a sweeping tale of int...




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