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DISCUSSION GUIDES
- 211.Beautiful Country: A Memoir of an Undocumented ChildhoodThe moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world. Inhabiting her childhood perspective with exquisite lyric clarity and unforgettable charm and strength, Qian Julie Wang has penned an essential American story about a family fracturing under the weight of invisibility, and a girl coming of age in the shadows, who never stops seeking the light.
- 212.The Last Party: A NovelOn New Year’s Eve, Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests; his vacation homes on Mirror Lake are a success, and he’s generously invited the village to drink champagne with their wealthy new neighbors. But by midnight, Rhys will be floating dead in the freezing waters of the lake. On New Year’s Day, Ffion Morgan has a village full of suspects and secrets. With a lie uncovered at every turn, soon the question isn’t who wanted Rhys dead…but who finally killed him.
- 213.Meredith, AloneMeredith Maggs hasn’t left her house in 1,214 days. She insists she isn’t lonely, but the world is coming to her door.
- 214.The Field House: A Writer's Life Lost and Found on an Island in MaineNationally renowned author Rachel Field died mysteriously at the peak of her success, 20 years before Robin Clifford Wood was born. Nevertheless, the two women’s lives become uncannily, intimately intertwined when Wood moves into Field’s abandoned home on a tiny island off the coast of Maine.
- 215.WallsCan two cousins on opposite sides of the Cold War and a divided city come together when so much stands between them?
- 216.The Way of Inanna: A Heroine's Guide to Living Unapologetically
Myth Made Manifest
Over 4000 years ago in ancient Sumer, some of the first mythographers inscribed the stories and myths of the Goddess Inanna on clay tablets in cuneiform. These incredible findings were unearthed, and the fragments were painstakingly pieced together and translated.
What they discovered were the ways Inanna was heralded as a goddess who embodies polarities: impatient and deliberate, an attentive lover and fierce warrior, connected to fertility as well as death-making her an accessible, relatable, and inspiring representation of the Divine Feminine as she stands in her power and multidimensionality. The Way of Inanna: A Heroine's Guide to Living Unapologetically is a field guide to heart-centered living through the wisdom of the Sumerian Goddess of Love.
Each chapter deconstructs sacred narratives in which the Goddess navigates the seven gates of her soul's journey from awakening to ascension. More than a simple retelling, the book is myth made manifest in which Inanna becomes a means to accessing our own ascension and alchemical magic within our modern, contemporary context.
With a combined psychotherapeutic and spiritual approach, author Seana Zelazo offers rituals and practices to help readers connect directly with Inanna. From harnessing your sensual energy to reclaiming the generative capacity of the Divine Feminine and identifying and amplifying your life's purpose, you will discover the ways Inanna's process is your own.
- 217.Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of FamilyThe true story of identical twins Isabella and Hà, who were born in Vietnam and raised on opposite sides of the world, each knowing little about the other’s existence. Then, against all odds, they were reunited as teenagers. How they have come to redefine the meaning of family for themselves is a moving, coming-of-age tale of sisterhood.
- 218.When Two Feathers Fell From The SkyLouise Erdrich meets Karen Russell in this deliciously strange and daringly original novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble: An eclectic cast of characters—both real and ghostly—converge at an amusement park in Nashville, 1926.
- 219.Daisy Darker
*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
The NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR of Rock Paper Scissors returns with a locked-room mystery when a family reunion leads to murder in a delightfully twisty and atmospheric thriller, as seen on the TODAY show. "A dysfunctional family meets Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None with a truly gasp-inducing twist. This is the book you've been looking for." --Catherine Ryan Howard, bestselling author of 56 Days Daisy Darker was born with a broken heart. Now after years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker's entire family is assembling for Nana's 80th birthday party in her crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. When the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours. But at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family member follows... Trapped on an island where someone is killing them one by one, the Darkers must reckon with their present mystery as well as their past secrets, before the tide goes out and all is revealed. As seen on the TODAY show and picked by Book of the Month, Daisy Darker's family secrets and Alice Feeney's trademark shocking twists will keep readers riveted.
"Alice Feeney is great with TWISTS and TURNS." --Harlan Coben - 220.How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water: A NovelCara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life.