Caboodles - Book Club in a Bag at Pima County Public Library

The Archivist: Reserve Online; Martha Cooley; A battle of wills between Matt, a careful, orderly archivist for a private university, and Roberta, a determined young poet, over a collection of T. S. Eliot's letters, sealed by bequest until 2019, sparks an unusual friendship and reawakens painful memories of the past.

Crow Lake: Reserve Online; Mary Lawson; In the rural farm country of northern Ontario, the lives of members of two families--the farming Pye family and the Morrisons, zoologist Kate Morrison and her three brothers--are brought together and torn apart by misunderstanding, resentment, family love, and tragedy.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time: Reserve Online; Mark Haddon; Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.

The Dirty Girls Social Club: Reserve Online; Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez; In the years after graduating from Boston University, six Latina friends from widely varied backgrounds meet every six months to dine, share the stories of their everyday lives, and offer advice to one another.

Handmaid's Tale: Reserve Online; Margaret Atwood; Offred, a handmaid, describes life in what was once the United States, now the Republic of Gilead, a repressive and intolerant monotheocracy, in a satirical novel set in the near future.

Let Their Spirits Dance: Reserve Online; Stella Pope Duarte; A family shattered by the Vietnam War makes a healing cross-country pilgrimage from South Phoenix to Washington, D.C., to touch that city's famous memorial to the dead soldiers of that war.

Love in the Time of Cholera: Reserve Online; Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.

El Amor en los Tiempos del Colera: Reserve Online; Gabriel Garcia Marquez; En la costa de Sur América, esta historia de amor reúne a Fermina Daza, su esposo distinguido, y un hombre quién la ha amado por más de cincuenta años.

March: Reserve Online; Geraldine Brooks; In a story inspired by the father character in Little Women and drawn from the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott's father Bronson, a man leaves behind his family to serve in the Civil War and finds his marriage and beliefs profoundly challenged by his experiences. More Info

Mystic River: Reserve Online; Dennis Lehane; Sean Devine must confront the world of violence and pain he tried to forget when his childhood friend's daughter is murdered, and the investigation brings him face-to-face with a vigilante killer and a man with a dangerous secret.

Never Let Me Go: Reserve Online; Kazuo Ishiguro; A reunion with two childhood friends draws Kathy and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into their lives at Hailsham, an isolated private school in the English countryside, and a confrontation with the truth about their childhoods.

Portnoy's Complaint: Reserve Online; Philip Roth; A New York lawyer, dominated by a demanding Jewish mother, plays out his sexual revenge in fact and fantasy.

Reading Lolita in Tehran: Reserve Online; Azar Nafisi; An English teacher at the University of Tehran tells of the group of young women who came together at her home in secret every Thursday to read and discuss great books of Western literature, explaining the influence of Lolita, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, and other works, on their lives and goals.

Red Water: Reserve Online; Judith Freeman; A member of Brigham Young's inner circle, John D. Lee holds a high position in the Mormon church until he is held accountable for the Mountain Meadows Massacre, in which 120 settlers are slaughtered by a group of Mormons and their Indian allies.

Run, River, Run: Reserve Online; Ann Zwinger; "The Green River runs wild, free and vigourous from southern Wyoming to northeastern Utah. Edward Abbey wrote in these pages in 1975 that Anne Zwinger's account "of the Green River and its subtle forms of life and nonlife may be taken as authoritative. 'Run, River, Run,' should serve as a standard reference work on this part of the American West for many years to come." - New York Times Book Review

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: Reserve Online; Lisa See; An evocative story of friendship set against the backdrop of a nineteenth-century China in which women suffered from foot binding, isolation, and illiteracy follows an elderly woman and her companion as they communicate their hopes, dreams, joys, and tragedies through a unique secret language.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: Reserve Online; Anne Fadiman; A tragic tale of cultural differences chronicles the fight over the proper care of an epilectic Hmong child between a California medical center and her tradition-minded Laotian refugee family.

These Is My Words: Reserve Online; Nancy Turner; In a novel based on the author's ancestress, Sarah Prine, a child of the westward expansion, records her dreams, marriage, adventures, joys, and sorrows in her diary.

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Time Traveler's Wife: Reserve Online; Audrey Niffenegger; Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.

An Unfinished Life: Reserve Online; Mark Spragg; Seeking to escape her brutal boyfriend and hoping to introduce her daughter, Griff, to the grandfather she has never met, widow Jean Gilkyson seeks refuge in her late husband's Wyoming hometown with her estranged father-in-law, who blames her for his son's death.

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