August 18, 2020
Gear Up for Fall Reading with These New Titles!
Summer is coming to an end, and we're closing it out in style with three brand-new Book Club in a Bag titles, including an Oprah's Book Club pick and Brit Bennett's latest novel. Give us a call or email to reserve these or any other Book Club in a Bag title any time!
Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely as ever, with a massive favor to ask. Daphne hasn't spoken a word to Drue in all this time--she doesn't even hate-follow her ex-best friend on social media--so when Drue asks if she will be her maid of honor at the society wedding of the summer, Daphne is rightfully speechless. Drue has always been the one who has everything--except the ability to hold onto friends. Meanwhile, Daphne's no longer the same self-effacing sidekick she was in high school. She's built a life that she loves, including a growing career as a plus-size influencer on Instagram. Letting glamorous, seductive Drue back into her life is risky, but it comes with an invitation to spend a weekend in a waterfront Cape Cod mansion. When Drue begs and pleads and dangles the prospect of cute single guys, Daphne finds herself powerless as ever to resist her old friend's siren song.

Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American Dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen to one family?

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everythig: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' stories intersect?

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