These sets of books were purchased for the Library's public book clubs by the Friends of the Library. Private book clubs may arrange to borrow sets of books by contacting Jimi Rider. Updated October 30, 2009.
| Title |
Author |
# of copies |
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| 1421: The Year China Discovered America |
Menzies, Gavin |
15 |
| 1776 |
McCullough, David |
14 |
| Angela's Ashes |
McCourt, Frank |
14 |
| Another Place at the Table |
Harrison, Kathy |
14 |
| Arctic Homestead |
Cobb, Norma |
14 |
| Around the World on Two Wheels |
Zheutlin, Peter |
16 |
| Assassination Vacation |
Vowell, Sarah |
15 |
| Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue |
Anthony, Lawrence |
20 |
| Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq |
Holmstedt, Kirsten |
7 |
| Black Dog of Fate |
Balakian, Peter |
|
| Blood Done Sign My Name |
Tyson, Timothy |
28 |
| Blue Latitudes |
Horwitz, Tony |
15 |
| Bound Feet and Western Dress |
Chang, Pang-Mei |
13 |
| Brave Companions |
McCullough, David |
15 |
| Bringing Down the House |
Mezrich, Ben |
15 |
| Cat Abroad |
Gethers, Peter |
12 |
| Color of Water |
McBride, James |
17 |
| Come Back to Afghanistan |
Akbar, Said Hyder |
15 |
| Confederates in the Attic |
Horwitz, Tony |
15 |
| Counting Coup |
Colton, Larry |
10 |
| Crack in the Edge of the World |
Winchester, Simon |
15 |
| Crashing Through |
Kurson, Robert |
20 |
| Day the World Came to Town |
Defede, Jim |
15 |
| Devil in the White City |
Larson, Erik |
15 |
| Diamond |
Hart, Matthew |
15 |
| Electric Dreams |
Kettlewell, Caroline |
19 |
| Ellen Foster |
Gibbons, Kaye |
13 |
| Emperors of Chocolate |
Brenner, Joel Glenn |
12 |
| End of the Spear |
Saint, Steve |
15 |
| Enrique's Journey |
Nazario, Sonia |
15 |
| Foreign Correspondence |
Brooks, Geraldine |
12 |
| Galileo's Daughter |
Sobel, Dava |
18 |
| Geeks |
Katz, Jon |
12 |
| God Grew Tired of Us |
Dau, John Bul |
15 |
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Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fry-Oil Powered Car
One Book One Community
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Melville, Greg
will speak in Wilmington March 2010 |
30 |
| Growing Up |
Baker, Russell |
8 |
| Having Our Say : the Delaney Sisters First 100 Yea |
Delaney, Sarah and Annie |
6 |
| Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo |
Huntley, Paula |
5 |
| Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages |
Marton, Kati |
15 |
| House on Dream Street |
Sachs, Dana |
15 |
| Hungry Hill |
Gaunt, Carole O'Malley |
15 |
| Infidel |
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan |
|
| Innocent Man |
Grisham, John |
15 |
| Isaac's Storm |
Larson, Erik |
10 |
| Island of Lost Maps |
Harvey, Miles |
15 |
| Keeper of the Moon |
McLaurin, Tim |
15 |
| Land of a Thousand Hills |
Carr, Rosamond |
10 |
| Last Chance to See |
Adams, Douglas |
14 |
| Last Man Out |
Downey, Tom |
15 |
| Leap of Faith |
Noor, Queen |
16 |
| Leaving Microsoft to Save the World |
Wood, John |
15 |
| Letters of a Woman Homesteader |
Stewart, Elinore Pruitt |
19 |
| Lexus and the Olive Tree |
Friedman, Thomas |
20 |
| Longitude |
Sobel, Dava |
11 |
| Longitudes and Attitudes: World in Age of Terrori |
Friedman, Thomas L. |
15 |
| Manhunt: the 12 Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer |
Swanson, James |
20 |
| Mayflower |
Philbrick, Nathaniel |
15 |
| Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling |
King, Ross |
16 |
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil |
Berendt, John |
10 |
| Mountains beyond Mountains |
Kidder, Tracy |
16 |
| My Dog Skip |
Morris, Willie |
12 |
| My Old Man and the Sea |
Hayes, David & Daniel |
12 |
| Nickel and Dimed |
Ehrenreich, Barbara |
17 |
| Night |
Wiesel, Elie |
15 |
| Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court |
Toobin, Jeffrey |
15 |
| One Writer's Beginnings |
Welty, Eudora |
14 |
| One Year Off: Leaving it all behind |
Cohen, David |
20 |
| Outwitting History |
Lansky, Aaron |
15 |
| Over the Edge of the World |
Bergreen, Lawrence |
15 |
| Perfect Storm |
Junger, Sebastian |
15 |
| Personal History |
Graham, Katharine |
12 |
| Places in Between |
Stewart, Rory |
15 |
| Pox Americana |
Fenn, Elizabeth |
20 |
| Professor and the Madman |
Winchester, Simon |
14 |
| Reading Lolita in Tehran |
Nafisi, Azar |
18 |
| Red China Blues |
Wong, Jan |
15 |
| River Horse |
Heat Moon, William Least |
13 |
| River of Doubt |
Millard, Candice |
15 |
| Salt: A World History |
Kurlansky, Mark |
15 |
| Screwtape Letters |
Lewis, C.S. |
13 |
| Sea Hunters |
Cussler, Clive |
17 |
| Sea of Glory |
Philbrick, Nat |
16 |
| Secrets of the Savannah |
Owen, Mark and Della |
15 |
| Shadow Divers |
Kurson, Robert |
14 |
| Shadow of the Silk Road |
Thurbron, Colin |
20 |
| Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea |
Kinder, Gary |
15 |
| Skeletons on the Zahara |
King, Dean |
20 |
| Slaves in the Family |
Ball, Edward |
17 |
| Smile as Big as the Moon, A |
Kersjes, Mike |
13 |
| Soloist |
Lopez, Steve |
15 |
| Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down |
Fadiman, Anne |
15 |
| Stolen Lives |
Oufkir, Malika |
14 |
| Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 |
Scotti, R.A. |
20 |
| Terra Incognita |
Wheeler, Sara |
15 |
| Thieves of Baghdad |
Bogdanos, Matthew |
15 |
| Three Cups of Tea |
Mortenson, Greg |
15 |
| Travels with Charley |
Steinbeck, John |
15 |
| Undaunted Courage |
Ambrose, Stephen |
16 |
| Under the Banner of Heaven |
Krakauer, Jon |
18 |
| Unfinished Presidency |
Brinkley, Douglas |
15 |
| Wait till Next Year |
Goodwin, Doris |
15 |
| Walk in the Woods |
Bryson, Bill |
13 |
| Washington Burning |
Standiford, Les |
15 |
| Water is Wide |
Conroy, Pat |
14 |
| We Have Taken a City |
Prather, H. Leon |
20 |
| When I was Puerto Rican |
Santiago, Esmeralda |
14 |
| Wild Swans |
Chang, Jung |
11 |
| Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey |
Schlissel, Lillian |
15 |
| Year by the Sea |
Anderson, Joan |
13 |
| Year of Magical Thinking |
Didion, Joan |
14 |
| Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story |
Ackerman, Diane |
19 | |
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