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  • 1.
    The Turtle House: A Novel
    The Turtle House: A Novel

    by Amanda Churchill

    Summary:

    “A heartbreakingly resonant debut, The Turtle House is a tender, big-hearted story about women, family, and the complicated history of Texas. These characters, and their tentative, flawed stumblings toward grace, will stay with me.”—Elizabeth Wetmore, author of Valentine

    “Sweeping yet intimate, Amanda Churchill’s Turtle House spans cultures and continents. Minnie and her granddaughter Lia are unforgettable protagonists, whose grit and grace will inspire you. Together, they find a way through in this gripping debut.”—Vanessa Hua, author of Forbidden City

    Moving between late 1990s small-town Texas to pre-World War II Japan and occupied Tokyo, an emotionally engaging literary debut about a grandmother and granddaughter who connect over a beloved lost place and the secrets they both carry.

    It’s spring 1999, and 25-year-old Lia Cope and her prickly 73-year-old grandmother, Mineko, are sharing a bedroom in Curtain, Texas, the ranching town where Lia grew up and Mineko began her life as a Japanese war bride. Both women are at a turning point: Mineko, long widowed, moved in with her son and daughter-in-law after a suspicious fire destroyed the Cope family ranch house, while Lia, an architect with a promising career in Austin, has unexpectedly returned under circumstances she refuses to explain.

    Though Lia never felt especially close to her grandmother, the two grow close sharing late-night conversations. Mineko tells stories of her early life in Japan, of the war that changed everything, and of her two great loves: a man named Akio Sato and an abandoned Japanese country estate they called the Turtle House, where their relationship took root. As Mineko reveals more of her early life—tales of innocent swimming lessons that blossom into something more, a friendship nurtured across oceans, totems saved and hidden, the heartbreak of love lost too soon—Lia comes to understand the depth of her grandmother’s pain and sacrifice and sees her Texas family in a new light. She also recognizes that it’s she who needs to come clean—about the budding career she abandoned and the mysterious man who keeps calling.

    When Mineko’s adult children decide, against her wishes, to move her into an assisted living community, she and Lia devise a plan to bring a beloved lost place to life, one that they hope will offer the safety and sense of belonging they both need, no matter the cost.

    A story of intergenerational friendship, family, coming of age, identity, and love, The Turtle House illuminates the hidden lives we lead, the secrets we hold close, and what it truly means to find home again when it feels lost forever.

    DISCUSSION GUIDE AND QUESTIONS
  • 2.
    All That Life Can Afford: Reese's Book Club
    All That Life Can Afford: Reese's Book Club

    by Emily Everett

    Summary: A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK

    “An effervescent debut chock full of Austenian nods. Swoonworthy!” —Sarah McCoy, New York Times bestselling author of Mustique Island

    “All That Life Can Afford is about love, ambition, and the cost of belonging, and I cannot stop thinking about it.” —Reese Witherspoon

    A young American woman navigates class, lies, and love amid London’s jet-set elite.


    I would arrive, blank like a sheet of notebook paper, and write myself new.

    Anna first fell in love with London at her hometown library—its Jane Austen balls a far cry from her life of food stamps and hand-me-downs. But when she finally arrives after college, the real London is a moldy flat and the same paycheck-to-paycheck grind—that fairy-tale life still out of reach.

    Then Anna meets the Wilders, who fly her to Saint-Tropez to tutor their teenage daughter. Swept up by the sphinxlike elder sister, Anna soon finds herself plunged into a heady whirlpool of parties and excess, a place where confidence is a birthright. There she meets two handsome young men—one who wants to whisk her into his world in a chauffeured car, the other who sees through Anna’s struggle to outrun her past. It’s like she’s stepped into the pages of a glittering new novel, but what will it cost her to play the part?

    Sparkling with intelligence and insight, All That Life Can Afford peels back the glossy layers of class and privilege, exploring what it means to create a new life for yourself that still honors the one you’ve left behind.
    DISCUSSION GUIDE AND QUESTIONS
  • 3.
    The Wild Robot (Volume 1) (The Wild Robot, 1)
    The Wild Robot (Volume 1) (The Wild Robot, 1)

    by Peter Brown

    Summary: Now a DreamWorks movie available on Prime Video!

    This #1 New York Times bestselling illustrated middle grade novel from a Caldecott Honor winner tells an extraordinary story full of action and thought-provoking questions as a robot learns to survive--and live--in the wilderness.

    Can a robot survive in the wilderness?

    When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants.

    As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home--until, one day, the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her.

    From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed novel about what happens when nature and technology collide.

    Don't miss the whole series!
    The Wild Robot
    The Wild Robot Escapes
    The Wild Robot Protects

    and for younger readers: The Wild Robot on the Island

    DISCUSSION GUIDE AND QUESTIONS
  • 4.
    The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel
    The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel

    by Adam Johnson

    Summary: The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of North Korea tells the story of Pak Jun Do, a young man who moves up in Kim Jong-il's power structure and then becomes a rival of the dictator. A riveting portrait of a world heretofore hidden from view: a North Korea rife with hunger, corruption, and casual cruelty but also camaraderie, stolen moments of beauty, and love.
    DISCUSSION GUIDE AND QUESTIONS
  • 5.
    The Murderbot Diaries Collection 7 hardcover book set (All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy,Network Effect, Fugitive Telemetry)
    The Murderbot Diaries Collection 7 hardcover book set (All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy,Network Effect, Fugitive Telemetry)

    by Martha Wells

    DISCUSSION GUIDE AND QUESTIONS
  • 6.
    The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy
    The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy

    by Martha Wells

    Summary: “We are all a little bit Murderbot.” – NPR on Martha Wells's The Murderbot Diaries...
    DISCUSSION GUIDE AND QUESTIONS
  • 7.
    System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, 7)
    System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, 7)

    by Martha Wells

    Summary:

    A New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today bestseller.

    Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.

    Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.


    Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can’t have the planet, they’re sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize.

    But there’s something wrong with Murderbot; it isn’t running within normal operational parameters. ART’s crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they’re going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what’s wrong with itself, and fast!

    Yeah, this plan is... not going to work.

    The Murderbot Diaries
    All Systems Red
    Artificial Condition
    Rogue Protocol
    Exit Strategy
    Network Effect
    Fugitive Telemetry
    System Collapse

    DISCUSSION GUIDE AND QUESTIONS
  • 8.
    Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel (The Murderbot Diaries, 5)
    Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel (The Murderbot Diaries, 5)

    by Martha Wells

    Summary:

    WINNER of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards!

    The first full-length novel in Martha Wells' New York Times and USA Today bestselling Murderbot Diaries series.

    Named a Best of the Year by NPR | Book Riot | Polygon

    “
    I caught myself rereading my favorite parts... and I can’t recommend it enough.” —The New York Times

    You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot.

    Come for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the most relatable A.I. you’ll read this century.

    —


    I’m usually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.

    When Murderbot's human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action.

    Drastic action it is, then.

    The Murderbot Diaries
    All Systems Red
    Artificial Condition
    Rogue Protocol
    Exit Strategy
    Network Effect
    Fugitive Telemetry
    System Collapse

    DISCUSSION GUIDE AND QUESTIONS
  • 9.
    Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries (The Murderbot Diaries, 2)
    Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries (The Murderbot Diaries, 2)

    by Martha Wells

    Summary:

    Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling All Systems Red.

    The "I love Murderbot!" —New York Times bestselling author Ann Leckie


    It has a dark past—one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more.

    Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue.

    What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks…

    The Murderbot Diaries
    All Systems Red
    Artificial Condition
    Rogue Protocol
    Exit Strategy
    Network Effect
    Fugitive Telemetry
    System Collapse

    DISCUSSION GUIDE AND QUESTIONS
  • 10.
    Exit Strategy: The Murderbot Diaries (The Murderbot Diaries, 4)
    Exit Strategy: The Murderbot Diaries (The Murderbot Diaries, 4)

    by Martha Wells

    Summary:

    Martha Wells returns to her Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries, in Exit Strategy.

    Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right?

    Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr. Mensah—its former owner (protector? friend?)—submit evidence that could prevent GrayCris from destroying more colonists in its never-ending quest for profit.

    But who’s going to believe a SecUnit gone rogue?

    And what will become of it when it’s caught?

    "I love Murderbot!" —New York Times bestselling author Ann Leckie

    The Murderbot Diaries
    All Systems Red
    Artificial Condition
    Rogue Protocol
    Exit Strategy
    Network Effect
    Fugitive Telemetry
    System Collapse

    DISCUSSION GUIDE AND QUESTIONS
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