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Dear Reader Online Book Clubs - Each day we'll email you a 5-minute portion of a book. During the week you can read 2-3 chapters and decide if you want to check the book out of the library. Every Monday we start a new book.

 

This week's book:

Gold Medal Fiction:

  • Alcorn, Angela -- The Ishbane Conspiracy

  • Alexie, Sherman -- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven

  • Alexie, Sherman -- Reservation Blues

  • Allen, Charlotte -- Dreaming in Color

  • Alvarez, Julia -- In the Time of the Butterflies

  • Ansay, A. Manette -- River Angel

  • Archer, Jeffrey -- As the Crow Flies

  • Austen, Jane -- Pride and Prejudice

  • Baldacci, David -- Saving Faith

  • Baldacci, David -- Wish You Well

  • Bank, Melissa -- The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing

  • Barr, Nevada -- Blind Descent

  • Bass, Rick -- The Sky The Stars The Wilderness

  • Bear, Greg -- Vitals

  • Bedford, Deborah -- Just Between Us

  • Bedford, Deborah -- The Story Jar

  • Benig, Irving -- The Messiah Stones

  • Berg, Elizabeth -- Durable Goods

  • Berg, Elizabeth -- Open House

  • Berg, Elizabeth -- The Pull of the Moon

  • Binchy, Maeve -- The Copper Beech

  • Binchy, Maeve -- The Glass Lake

  • Booth, Martin -- The Industry of Souls

  • Brown, James -- Lucky Town

  • Brown, Dan Angels & Demons

  • Brown, Sandra -- The Witness

  • Burke, James -- Cimarron Rose

  • Burke, Jan -- Dear Irene,

  • Case, John -- The Fifth Horseman

  • Cather, Willa -- My Antonia

  • Cavanaugh, Jack -- Dear Enemy

  • Chiaverini, Jennifer -- Quilter's Apprentice (book1)

  • Chiaverini, Jennifer -- The Cross-Country Quilters (book 3)

  • Chiaverini, Jennifer -- Round Robin (book 2)

  • Child, Lincoln and Douglas Preston -- The Cabinet of Curiosities

  • Coelho, Paulo -- The Alchemist

  • Coleman, Jane C. -- Moving On

  • Conroy, Pat -- The Great Santini

  • Coomer, Joe -- Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God

  • Cross, Donna -- Pope Joan

  • Dahlquist, Gordon - The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

  • Dallas, Sandra -- The Diary of Mattie Spenser

  • Dallas, Sandra -- The Persian Pickle Club

  • Darnton, John -- Neanderthal

  • Darrell, Elizabeth -- We Will Remember

  • Davidson, Diane Mott -- Dying For Chocolate

  • Deaver, Jeffrey -- The Devil's Teardrop

  • DeBerry, Virginia -- Tryin' To Sleep In The Bed You Made

  • DeMille, Nelson -- The General's Daughter

  • Dorf, Fran -- Saving Elijah

  • Dorris, Michael -- A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

  • Dubis, Andre III -- House of Sand and Fog

  • Dundon, Susan -- To My Ex-Husband

  • Durham, David Anthony -- Gabriel's Story

  • Edgerton, Clyde -- Walking Across Egypt

  • Elton, Ben -- Popcorn

  • Ephron, Amy -- A Cup of Tea

  • Esquivel, Laura -- Like Water for Chocolate

  • Evans, Nicholas -- The Horse Whisperer

  • Fergus, Jim -- One Thousand White Women

  • Fergus, Jim -- The Wild Girl : The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932

  • Fforde, Jasper -- The Eyre Affair

  • Fielding, Helen -- Bridget Jones's diary

  • Flagg, Fannie -- Daisy Fay & The Miracle Man

  • Flagg, Fannie -- Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!

  • Follett, Ken -- The Third Twin

  • Folsom, Allan -- The Day After Tomorrow

  • Franscell, Ron -- Angel Fire

  • Frazier, Charles -- Cold Mountain

  • Gabriel, Marius -- Seventh Moon

  • Gaffney, Patricia -- Circle of Three

  • Galvin, James (WYO) -- Fencing the Sky

  • Gibbons, Kaye -- A Virtuous Woman

  • Gibson, William -- Pattern Recognition

  • Goldberg, Leonard S. -- Deadly Care

  • Gottlieb, Eli -- The Boy Who Went Away

  • Goudge, Eileen -- Garden of Lies

  • Gould, Steven & Laura J. Mixon -- Greenwar, an Environmental Thriller

  • Greenberg, Joanne -- No Reck'ning Made

  • Grisham, John -- A Painted House

  • Groom, Winston -- As Summers Die

  • Groom, Winston -- Forrest Gump

  • Gutcheon, Beth -- More Than you Know

  • Gutcheon, Beth -- Saving Grace

  • Guterson, David -- Snow Falling on Cedars

  • Hall, Matthew -- The Art of Breaking Glass

  • Hallowell, Janis -- The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn

  • Hannah, Kristin -- On Mystic Lake

  • Harstad, Donald -- Eleven Days

  • Hart, Carolyn -- Death in Paradise

  • Haruf, Kent -- Plainsong

  • Hedges, Peter -- An Ocean in Iowa

  • Hedges, Peter -- What's Eating Gilbert Grape

  • Hegi, Ursula -- Salt Dancers

  • Hegi, Ursula -- Stones from the River

  • Hegland, Jean -- Into the Forest

  • Heitzmann, Kristen -- A Rush of Wings

  • Heitzmann, Kristen -- The Still of Night

  • Henderson, M. R. -- By Reason Of

  • Henley, Patricia -- In the River Sweet

  • Herman, Richard -- Iron Gate

  • Hearn, Lian -- Across the Nightingale Floor

  • Hill, David -- Sacred Dust

  • Hobbs, Anne -- Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness

  • Holt A. J. -- Watch Me

  • Hornby, Nick -- About a Boy

  • Hornby, Nick -- High Fidelity

  • Hosseini, K -- The Kite Rider

  • Hucker, Hazel -- Trials of Friendship

  • Hudgens, Dallas -- Drive Like Hell

  • Hyde, Catherine Ryan -- Love in the Present Tense

  • Hyde, Catherine Ryan -- Pay It Forward

  • Ishiguro, Kazuo -- The Remains of The Day

  • Johnson, Shane -- Chayatocha

  • Karon, Jan -- A Common Life

  • Karon, Jan -- A New Song

  • Karon, Jan -- At Home in Mitford

  • Kay, Terry -- The Runaway

  • Kellogg, Marne Davis -- Curtsey

  • Kidd, Sue Monk - The Secret Life of Bees

  • King, Laurie -- Folly

  • Kingsolver, Barbara -- The Bean Trees

  • Kingsolver, Barbara -- The Poisonwood Bible

  • Kirkpatrick, Jane -- Love to Water my Soul

  • Klavan, Andrew - Man and Wife

  • Koontz, Dean -- Seize the Night

  • Kotzwinkle, William -- The Fan Man

  • Kurzweil, Allen -- The Grand Complication

  • Latham, Elizabeth -- Silences of the Heart

  • LeClaire, Anne D. -- Leaving Eden

  • Levy, Burt -- The Last Open Road

  • Levy, JoAnn -- Daughter of Joy

  • Lewis, C. S. -- Till We Have Faces

  • Loveday, John -- Halo

  • McCaig, Donald -- Jacobs Ladder

  • McMurtry, Larry -- Comanche Moon

  • Magorian, Michelle -- Good Night, Mr. Tom

  • Margolis, Seth -- Perfect Angel

  • Mark, Andrew -- Falling Bodies

  • Martin, Steve -- Shopgirl

  • Martin, William -- Cape Cod

  • Matheson, Richard -- 7 Steps to Midnight

  • Matson, Suzanne -- A Trick of Nature

  • Maxwell, Evan -- All the Winters That Have Been

  • Mayle, Peter -- A Dog's Life

  • McMillan, Terry -- Waiting to Exhale

  • Michener, James A. -- The Source

  • Miller, Sue -- While I Was Gone

  • Minot, Susan -- Evening

  • Morgan, Marlo -- Mutant Message Down Under

  • Morgan, Robert -- The Truest Pleasure

  • Morris, Michael -- Slow Way Home

  • Morris, Willie -- Taps

  • Morrison, Toni -- Beloved

  • Moser, Nancy -- The Seat Beside Me

  • Moser, Nancy -- Time Lottery

  • Nance, John -- Blackout

  • Nance, John -- Last Hostage

  • Niffenegger, Audrey -- The Time Traveler's Wife

  • Oke, Janette -- Nana's Gift

  • Oke, Janette -- The Matchmakers

  • Oke, Janette -- The Red Geranium

  • O'Carroll, Brendan -- The Young Wan

  • O'Dell Tawni -- Back Roads

  • Otto, Whitney -- How to Make an American Quilt

  • Park, June -- The Bingo Queens of Paradise

  • Patterson, Richard North -- Dark Lady

  • Patterson, Richard North -- Degree of Guilt

  • Patterson, Richard North -- Silent Witness

  • Pearson, Allison -- I Don't know How She Does It

  • Pearson, Carol Lynn -- Morning Glory Mother

  • Pearson, Ridley -- No Witnesses

  • Pella, Judith and Michael Phillips -- The Russians: A House Divided

  • Peretti, Frank -- This Present Darkness

  • Peters, Elizabeth -- The Curse of the Pharaohs

  • Phillips, Michael and Judith Pella --The Russians: A House Divided

  • Picoult, Jodi -- Keeping Faith

  • Picoult, Jodi -- Plain Truth

  • Preston, Douglas and Lincoln Child -- The Cabinet of Curiosities

  • Preston, Douglas -- The Codex

  • Proulx, Annie -- Bad Dirt

  • Proulx, Annie - The Shipping News

  • Proulx, Annie -- That Old Ace in the Hole

  • Puzo, Mario -- The Last Don

  • Raney, Deborah -- Playing by Heart

  • Rayner, Richard -- Cloud Sketcher

  • Reeves-Stevens, Judith & Garfield -- Icefire

  • Reynolds, Sheri -- Bitterroot Landing

  • Ribon, Pamela -- Why Girls Are Weird

  • Rivers, Francine -- An Echo in the Darkness

  • Rivers, Francine -- As Sure As the Dawn

  • Rivers, Francine -- The Atonement Child

  • Rivers, Francine -- Unspoken

  • Robinson, Patrick -- Kilo Class

  • Rollins, James -- Map of Bones

  • Ross, Ann B. -- Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind

  • Russo, Richard -- Empire Falls

  • Saenz, Benjamin Alire -- Carry Me Like Water

  • Sandford, John -- Certain Prey

  • Sandford, John -- The Night Crew

  • Shaw, Patricia -- Where The Willows Weep

  • Sheepshanks, Mary -- Picking Up the Pieces

  • Shelby, Philip -- Gatekeeper

  • Shepard, Steve -- A Murder of Crows

  • Shields, Carol -- Unless

  • Simmons, Dan -- Darwin's Blade

  • Simmons, Dan -- Hard Freeze

  • Simmons, Dan -- Hardcase

  • Simmons, Dan -- A Winter Haunting

  • Shields, Carol -- The Stone Diaries

  • Shortridge, Jennie -- Riding With The Queen

  • Skwiot, Rick -- Sleeping With Pancho Villa

  • Smith, Diane -- Letters From Yellowstone

  • Sparks, Nicholas -- A Walk to Remember

  • Sparks, Nicholas -- The Notebook

  • Spence, Gerry -- Half-Moon and Empty Stars

  • Spencer, Wen -- Tinker

  • Steele, Danielle -- Accident

  • Stegner, Wallace -- Angle of Repose

  • Strunk, Frank C. -- Throwback

  • Sullivan, Mark -- Ghost Dance

  • Tan, Amy -- The Joy Luck Club

  • Taylor, Alice -- The Woman of the House

  • Taylor-Hill, Mary Ann -- Come and Go, Molly Snow

  • Thayer, Nancy -- Between Husbands & Friends

  • Thoene, Bodie & Brock -- The Twilight of Courage

  • Thrasher, Travis -- The Watermark

  • Trevanian -- Incident at Twenty-Mile

  • Trott, Susan -- The Holy Man's Journey

  • Twelve Hawks, John -- The Dark River

  • Tyler, Anne -- Ladder of Years

  • Vandenburgh, Jane -- The Physics of Sunset

  • Walker, Alice -- The Temple of My Familiar

  • Wells, Rebecca -- Little Altars Everywhere

  • Watson, Larry -- Montana 1948

  • Wheeler, Richard S -- The Fields of Eden

  • Wheeler, Richard -- Goldfield

  • Williams, J -- The Longest Road

  • Williams, Theresa -- The Secret of Hurricanes

  • Williamson, Penelope -- The Outsider

  • Winston, Lolly -- Good Grief

  • Woods, Stuart -- Heat

  • Woolfe, Sue -- Leaning Towards Infinity

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