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Southglenn Book Club's October 2023 Recommendations

These are the titles the Early Bird Book Club recommends for the month.

Arapahoe Libraries

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  • Catriona recommends this book which she describes as a classic enemies to lovers kind of trope but with a real message of burnout for young people in today's society. It also has an element of mystery about it with a huge dollop of…
    BookNew York : The Dial Press, [2023] — RF KINSELLA
  • Fox and I

    An Uncommon Friendship

    Raven, Catherine, 1959-
    Vicky recommends this autobiography of a woman, very much a loner, who befriends a fox while she is living in a tiny cottage on an isolated plot of land in Montana. The fox becomes a regular visitor and the woman starts reaching out to…
    BookNew York : Spiegel & Grau, [2021] — B RAVEN
  • Ann recommends this psychological thriller by one of her favorite authors. It is a futuristic story set in water-logged and heat-ravaged coastal America, radically altered by climate change. The characters attempt to adapt to the "new…
    BookNew York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2023] — BOYLE
  • Alyson recommends this story which is a new genre termed Cli-Fi, literature that deals with climate change. A large part of Antarctica has broken off and New York City is flooded. Greenland is now the place to be. Alyson notes that the…
    BookNew York : Atria Books, 2023. — FULLER GOOGINS
  • Lucy recommends this story which is the 1st book in The Mistletoe Collection series. It is a heart -warming story of finding hope. A man and a women, both emotionally bereft, enter into an eight week contract with each other in providing…
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2014. — IF EVANS
  • Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I

    the Mother and Daughter Who Forever Changed British History

    Borman, Tracy,
    Jane recommends this book of a remarkable mother and daughter, one remembered as infamous, the other as famous and whose name defined an era. Princess Elizabeth, later Elizabeth I, was barely 3 years old when her father had her mother…
    BookNew York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023. — 942.055 BORMAN
  • Alyson recommends this story of a First Nation family from Nova Scotia that annually travel to Maine to pick blueberries. During one trip the four-year-old daughter disappears. Her family searches and searches. Some years later, a young…
    BookNew York : Catapult, 2023. — PETERS