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Bridge of Sighs By Richard Russo Fiction \| Hardcover \| September 2007 \| 978-0-375-41495-4 Louis Charles "Lucy" Lynch has spent his whole life in Thomaston, a small town in upstate New York. He's married to Sarah, the girl he fell in love with in high school, owns and operates three convenience stores, including the corner grocery he inherited from his parents, and is perfectly content with his well-established routines and the familiar rhythms of Thomaston. At the age of sixty, as he and Sarah plan their first-ever trip away from home, he looks back on his life, weaving memories into a history of his family and his town. Get the reading group guide.


Tomorrow By Graham Swift Fiction \| Hardcover \| September 2007 \| 978-0-307-26690-3 On a midsummer's night Paula Hook lies awake; Mike, her husband of twenty-five years, asleep beside her; her teenage twins, Nick and Kate, sleeping in nearby rooms. The next day, she knows, will redefine all of their lives. A revelation lies in store. Her children's future lies before them. The house holds the family's history and fate. Get the reading group guide.


Songs Without Words By Ann Packer Fiction \| Hardcover \| September 2007 \| 978-0-375-41281-3 Ann Packer's debut novel, The Dive from Clausen's Pier, was a nationwide best seller that established her as one of our most gifted chroniclers of the interior lives of women. Now, in her long-awaited second novel, she takes us on a journey into a lifelong friendship pushed to the breaking point. Expertly, with the keen introspection and psychological nuance that are her hallmarks, she explores what happens when there are inequities between friends and when the hard-won balances of a long relationship are disturbed, perhaps irreparably, by a harrowing crisis. Get the reading group guide.


New England White By Stephen L. Carter Fiction \| Hardcover \| June 2007 \| 978-0-375-41362-9 Stephen L. Carter returns to the New England university town of Elm Harbor, where a murder begins to crack the veneer that has hidden the racial complications of the town's past, the secrets of a prominent family, and the most hidden bastions of African-American political influence. Get the reading group guide.

Divisadero By Michael Ondaatje Fiction \| Hardcover \| May 2007 \| 978-0-307-26635-4 Breathtakingly evoked and with unforgettable characters, Divisadero is a multilayered novel about passion, loss, and the unshakable past, about the often discordant demands of family, love, and memory. Get the reading group guide.

The Ministry of Special Cases By Nathan Englander Fiction \| Hardcover \| April 2007 \| 978-0-375-40493-1 Nathan Englander's first novel is a timeless story of fathers and sons. In a world turned upside down, where the past and the future, the nature of truth itself, all take shape according to a corrupt government's whims, one man—one spectacularly hopeless man—fights to overcome his history and his name, and, if for only once in his life, to put things right. Get the reading group guide.

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