<div dir="ltr">Recent-ish titles from the Ferndale Library's (brewery) Book Club<div><br></div><div><p><img alt="Ferndale Project Book Club" title="Ferndale Project Book Club" style="height: 444px; width: 444px;" class="gmail-media-element gmail-file-default" src="https://fadl.org/sites/default/files/Adults/Screenshot_20230421_165823_Instagram.jpg"></p><p>The Animators - Kayla Rae Whitaker - - 9/21<br>We Ride Upon Sticks - Quan Barry - - 10/21<br>The Immortalists - Chloe Benjamin - - 11/21<br></p><p><br>Dark Matter - Blake Crouch - - 1/22<br>The Lager Queen of Minnesota - J. Ryan Stradal - - 2/22<br>The River - Peter Heller - - 3/22<br>The Guncle - Steven Rowley - - 4/22<br>Gold Diggers - Sanjena Sathian - - 5/22<br>Let's Get Back to the Party - Zak Salih - - 6/22<br>The Final Revival of Opal & Nev - Dawnie Walton - - 7/22<br>Under the Whispering Door - T.J. Klune - - 8/22<br>Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia - - 9/22<br>A Cosmology of Monsters - Shaun Hamill - - 10/22<br>The Family Fang - Kevin Wilson - - 11/22<br>The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V.E. Schwab - - 12/22<br></p><p><br>Olga Dies Dreaming - Xochitl Gonzalez - - 1/23<br>American Spy - Lauren Wilkinson - - 2/23<br>True Biz - Sara Novic- - - 3/23<br>All This Could Be Different - Sarah Thankham Matthews - - 4/23<br>One of the Girls - Lucy Clarke - - 5/23<br>Cantoras - Carolina De Robertis - - 6/23<br>Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin - - 7/23<br>Vladimir - Julia May Jonas - - 8/23<br>Last Night at the Telegraph Club - Malinda Lo - - 9/23<br>Tell the Wolves I'm Home - Carol Rifka Brunt - - 10/23<br>I Have Some Questions For You - Rebecca Makkai - - 11/23<br>The Winter People - Jennifer McMahon -- 12/23<br></p><p><br>Hell of a Book - - Jason Mott -- 1/24<br>Memorial -- Bryan Washington -- 2/24<br>Zero Days -- Ruth Ware -- 3/24<br>Between Two Kingdoms -- Suleika Jaouad -- 4/24<br>The Sympathizer -- Viet Thanh Nguyen -- 5/24 </p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 2:29 PM Suzanne Kent via Michlib-l <<a href="mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org">michlib-l@mcls.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Book Club Titles from the Harper Woods Library. Please see attachments. I <span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"> also provide a study guide containing book summaries, discussion questions, and author biographies for all book club members. </span><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt">Suzanne Kent, Adult Services Librarian</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 1:50 PM Victor Volkman via Michlib-l <<a href="mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org" target="_blank">michlib-l@mcls.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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I would recommend titles from the U.P. Notable Books list for 2024
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I have contact information for all authors except Halsey in the list below
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<h3>2024 U.P. Notable Book List #5</h3>
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<li value="NaN"><em>The Great Seney Fire: A History of the Walsh Ditch Fire of 1976</em> by Gregory M. Lusk (Snowsnake Press, 2023)</li>
<li value="NaN"><em>Grim Paradise: The Cold Case Search for the Mackinac Island Killer </em>by Rod Sadler (WildBlue Press, 2023)</li>
<li value="NaN"><em>Odin’s Eye: A Marquette Time Travel Novel </em>by Tyler R. Tichelaar (Marquette Fiction, 2023)</li>
<li value="NaN"><em>The Midwife’s Touch</em> by Sue Harrison (Shanty Cove Books, 2023)</li>
<li value="NaN"><em>Yooper Ale Trails: Craft Breweries and Brewpubs of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula</em> by Jon C. Stott (Modern History Press, 2023)</li>
<li value="NaN"><em>Unsolved Mysteries of Father Marquette’s Many Graves </em>by Jennifer S. McGraw (Pine Stump Publications, 2023)</li>
<li value="NaN"><em>Prehistoric Copper Mining in Michigan: The Nineteenth-Century Discovery of “Ancient Diggings” in the Keweenaw Peninsula and Isle Royale </em>by John R. Halsey (UMich Press, 2018)</li>
<li value="NaN"><em>Brockway Mountain Stories </em>by Paul LaVanway (Mudminnow Press, 2023)</li>
<li value="NaN"><em>Who Am I?</em> by Julie Buchholtz (Sleeping Bear Press, 2023)</li>
<li value="NaN"><em>A Nostalgic Lens: Photographs and Essays from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula</em> by Peter Wurdock (Blue Boundary Books, 2023)</li>
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Or go a bit further back into previous years if nothing appeals here
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<a href="https://www.upnotable.com/past-winners/" target="_blank">https://www.upnotable.com/past-winners/</a>
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On 05/06/2024 10:28 AM EDT Mary Harrison via Michlib-l <<a href="mailto:michlib-l@mcls.org" target="_blank">michlib-l@mcls.org</a>> wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi MichLibL,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I’d love to get some of your suggestions for book club titles. Our current group is looking to expand their horizons. They tend to prefer literature without too many “four letter words”. Thanks for your collective suggestions! Mary</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mary Jean Harrison</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Coloma Public Library</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">151 W. Center Street</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Coloma Michigan 49038</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">269-468-3431</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.colomapubliclibrary.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">www.colomapubliclibrary.net</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;line-height:15pt"><em><span style="font-family:Constantia,serif;color:rgb(85,85,85);letter-spacing:-0.1pt">Timothy Healy</span></em></p>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)"><br></font><a href="mailto:jeff@fadl.org" target="_blank">jeff@fadl.org</a><br>Jeff Milo<br>Marketing Coordinator<br>Ferndale Area District Library<br></div></div>