New & Favorite Reading Group Guides
Looking for a great discussion title for your book club? Whether you’re planning your group’s selection for next month or the next twelve months, this is a great place to start. Below you’ll find our latest reading group guide releases along with featured favorite guides for the month. Just dip in and see what catches your eye!
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Featured Favorite Guides
Written by Graham Swift
Hardcover
On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton—once a Devon farmer, now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park—receives the news that his brother, Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in combat in Iraq. For Jack and his wife, Ellie, this will have unexpected, far-reaching effects. For Jack in particular it means a crucial journey: to receive his brother’s remains and to confront his most secret, troubling memories.
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Written by Meg Howrey
Trade Paperback
Kate Crane is a soloist in a celebrated New York City ballet company who is struggling to keep her place in a very demanding world. At every turn she is haunted by her close relationship with her younger sister, Gwen, a fellow company dancer whose career quickly surpassed Kate’s, but who has recently suffered a breakdown and returned home.
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Written by Jennifer Close
Trade Paperback
Isabella, Mary, and Lauren feel like everyone they know is getting married. Amid the celebration these women have their own lives to contend with: Isabella is working a dead-end job, Mary is dating a nice guy with an awful mother, and Lauren is waitressing at a midtown bar and wondering why she’s attracted to the sleazy bartender. With a wry sense of humor, Jennifer Close brings us through those thrilling, bewildering years of early adulthood as she pulls us inside the circle of these friends.
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The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramotswe’s Very First Case
Written by Alexander McCall Smith
Trade Paperback
2012-04-03, $6.99
It sometimes happens that a person’s true profession becomes apparent even in childhood…and that is the case for Precious Ramotswe. In this, her very first detective case, Precious exhibits the character…
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The Snowman
Written by Jo Nesbo
Translated by Don Bartlett
Trade Paperback
2012-04-17, $14.95
Soon the first snow will come. And then he will appear again. The Snowman. And when the snow is gone, he will have taken someone else…Who makes the snowmen? Who gave…
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Minding Frankie
Written by Maeve Binchy
Trade Paperback
2012-05-01, $14.95
“Reading a Maeve Binchy novel is like settling in for a cozy visit with an old friend. In vintage Binchy style, a cast of colorfully eccentric characters living in a snug…
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The Last Werewolf
Written by Glen Duncan
Trade Paperback
2012-04-17, $14.95
Jacob Marlowe not your typical narrator, or even your typical monster. He is an extremely well-read werewolf (he quotes everyone from Shakespeare to Susan Sontag) suffering profound existential angst and given…
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The Cranes Dance
Written by Meg Howrey
Trade Paperback
2012-05-15, $14.95
The Cranes Dance tells the fast-paced story of two exceptionally talented dancers, Kate and Gwen Crane, their rise to prominence in the high-stress world of New York’s most prestigious ballet company,…
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The Sense of an Ending
Written by Julian Barnes
Trade Paperback
2012-05-29, $14.95
“With great but invisible skill, Barnes squeezes into the novel not just a sense of the infinite complexity of the human heart but the damage the wrong permutations can cause when…
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Please Look After Mom
Written by Kyung-Sook Shin
Trade Paperback
2012-04-03, $14.95
A million-plus-copy bestseller in Korea, with publication scheduled in twenty-nine countries, Please Look After Mom is the magnificent English-language debut of a stunning, brilliant new voice.
The story opens with…
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Swim Back to Me
Written by Ann Packer
Trade Paperback
2012-04-03, $14.95
Ann Packer’s follow-up to her best-selling novels The Dive from Clausen’s Pier and Songs Without Words is a burnished, emotionally searing collection of short stories, framed by two linked narratives that…
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Girls in White Dresses
Written by Jennifer Close
Trade Paperback
2012-05-01, $14.95
“Girls in White Dresses is about a group of smart, funny, unapologetically grouchy, always-hungover female friends who kvetch their way through one another’s weddings and showers, stare blearily at one another’s…
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Blue Nights
Written by Joan Didion
Trade Paperback
2012-05-29, $15.00
Some books cut to the quick of human existence, to the essence of human suffering—loss, grief, illness, fear of death, death itself. Blue Nights is such a book, Joan Didion’s unflinching…
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