Book Club Selections

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Book Club Selections
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Thu, 02-17-2005 - 11:11am

Here are the books up for vote for our first book club. Look these over and I will post a poll later to vote on. Once the book is selected, in the member to member file I will post a thread to get us started. I am so excited! I love to read and would love to share the experience with you all.


Just so you know I picked books that I hope are not too heavy and hopefully easy to get into. Then we can get into the heavy stuff later...lol


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Hissy Fit
by Mary Kay Andrews


Welcome to the world of Mary Kay Andrews, where manners are polished, reputations are tarnished ... and revenge is sweet.


Keeley Murdock's wedding to A. J. Jernigan should have been the social event of the season. But when she catches her fiance doing the deed with her maid of honor at the country club rehearsal dinner, all bets are off. And so is the wedding. Keeley pitches the hissy fit of the century, earning herself instant notoriety in the small town of Madison, Georgia.


Even worse is the financial pressure A.J.'s banking family brings to bear on Keeley's interior design business. But riding to the rescue -- in a vintage yellow Cadillac -- is the redheaded stranger who's purchased a failing local bra plant. Will Mahoney hires Keeley to redo the derelict antebellum mansion he's bought. Her assignment: decorate it for the woman of his dreams -- a woman he's never met.


Only a designing woman like Keeley Murdock can find a way to clear her name and give her cheating varmint of an ex-fiance the comeuppance he so richly deserves. And only Mary Kay Andrews can deliver such delicious social satire. With Hissy Fit, she's created a story as outrageous, dishy, and true as Savannah Blues and Little Bitty Lies.


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Good Hope Road
by Lisa Wingate


Twenty-year-old Jenilee Lane whose dreams are as narrow as the sky is wide, is the last person to expect anything good to come out of the tornado that rips across the Missouri farmland surrounding her home. But some inner spark compels her to rescue her elderly neighbor, Eudora Gibson, from the cellar in which she's been trapped. To make her way to the nearby town of Poetry, where the townspeople have begun to gather. To collect from the landscape letters, photographs, and mementos that might mean something to people who have lost everything. Brought close by tragedy, Jenilee and Eudora will learn lessons about the resilience of the human spirit and the ties that make a community strong. They will travel to a place they never would have imagined.


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The Future Homemakers of America
by Laurie Graham


Stationed at a U.S. Air Force base in Norfolk, England in 1952, a group of "Yankee wives" are thrown together by nothing more than husbands who patrol the skies keeping the Soviets at bay. They seem to have little in common; some, like Pie Crust Queen Betty Gillis, are content to clip coupons and bake chocolate brownies, while others, like good-time girl Lois Moon, look for a little excitement beyond the perimeter fence. But the women soon discover similarities, from a common fear for their husbands to a desire to help out the war-ravaged British natives. Through marriage and divorce, separations and reunions, the gang will try to hold fast to each other in a story that takes us to the heart of female friendship-and reveals the secret of the perfect Three Color Refrigerator Cake.



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Thu, 02-17-2005 - 1:14pm

All of them sound really good, but I think I could get into the first one.....and the third.

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Thu, 02-17-2005 - 1:46pm
I am glad you like them all..me too! I can't decide.


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Thu, 02-17-2005 - 2:35pm

Im with you the first one and the last one sound like something I can get into real easy. Just adding that I just went to my liabray on the web and placed the first and the last one on hold thoes two look really good to me and now I want to read them and if one of them get voted in then I have them ready to go too.

Kerri




Edited 2/17/2005 2:38 pm ET ET by kerrichris
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Thu, 02-17-2005 - 2:47pm
i like the first one too!
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Thu, 02-17-2005 - 5:16pm

They all sound good, Traci. Maybe we should just go with Hissy Fit since it was the 1st. We could just go in the order you had. :) Just a suggestion.

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Thu, 02-17-2005 - 8:18pm
I think you picked some good ones to let us choose from.
Can't wait for the poll and to get started.





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