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Our first book for the fall is The Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson. Here is what Goodreads says:
Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric Uncle Billy’s bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. But on Miranda’s twelfth birthday, Billy has a mysterious falling-out with her mother and suddenly disappears from Miranda’s life. She doesn’t hear from him again until sixteen years later when she receives unexpected news: Billy has died and left her Prospero Books, which is teetering on bankruptcy—and one final scavenger hunt.Books we have read
The Lost Choice by Andy Andrews
The First Phone Call From Heaven by Mitch Albom
The All Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg
A Storm Came Up by Doug Segriest
Innocense Lost by Beth Gregory
The Cathedral by the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Greg Gilmore
The Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Left Overs by Tom Perrotta
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Jabbok by the Right Rev. Kee Sloan
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Tilted World by Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin
In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
Sunday Dinner by Ann Boult Walling
Swaying in the Treetops by Scott and Katherine Rosenow.
Be Frank With Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
15 Dogs by Andre Alexis
The Whole Town is Talking by Fannie Flagg
The Advocate by Randy Singer
Where the Light Gets in: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again by Kimberly Williams-Paisley
A Little Magic by Billy Coffee
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
Winter Garden by Kristen Hannah
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens