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Featuring: The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Featuring: The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
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A female apothecary secretly dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them - setting three lives across centuries on a dangerous collision course.
Rule #1: The poison must never be used to harm another woman. Rule #2: The names of the murderer and her victim must be recorded in the apothecary’s register. One cold February evening in 1791, at the back of a dark London alley in a hidden apothecary shop, Nella awaits her newest customer. Once a respected healer, Nella now uses her knowledge for a darker purpose - selling well-disguised poisons to desperate women who would kill to be free of the men in their lives. But when her new patron turns out to be a precocious twelve-year-old named Eliza Fanning, an unexpected friendship sets in motion a string of events that jeopardizes Nella’s world and threatens to expose the many women whose names are written in her register. In present-day London, aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell spends her tenth wedding anniversary alone, reeling from the discovery of her husband’s infidelity. When she finds an old apothecary vial near the river Thames, she can’t resist investigating, only to realize she’s found a link to the unsolved “apothecary murders” that haunted London over two centuries ago. As she deepens her search, Caroline’s life collides with Nella’s and Eliza’s in a stunning twist of fate - and not everyone will survive. |
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- January 2, 2014 - The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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- November 7, 2013- Flyboys by James Bradley
- October 3, 2013 - The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott
- September 5, 2013 -When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
- August 1, 2013 - Reader's Choice
- July 11, 2013 - Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
- June 6, 2013 - The Nature Principle by Richard Louv
- May 2, 2013 - Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
- April 4, 2013 - Learning to Swim by Sara Henry
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- February 7, 2013 - Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards
- January 3, 2013- Reader's Choice
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- June 7, 2007 - The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
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- January 4, 2007 - Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
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- November 2, 2006 "Lucia, Lucia" by Adriana Trigiani
- October 5, 2006 "Ladder of Years" by Anne Tyler
- September 7, 2006 "Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery
- August 3, 2006"Population 485" by Michael Perry
- July 6, 2006 "Orchard" by Larry Watson
- June 1, 2006 "Cloud Chamber" by Michael Dorris
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- April 6, 2006 "A Map of the World" by Jane Hamilton
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- February 2, 2006 "Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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- October 6, 2005 "Colony" by Anne Rivers Siddons
- September 1, 2005 "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
- August 4, 2005 "The Heart of a Woman" by Maya Angelou
- July 7, 2005 "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
- June 2, 2005 "Sunrise Sunset" by Kathleen Marsh- A special book discussion with the author
- May 5, 2005 "The Blue Shoe" by Anne Lamott
- April 7, 2005 "Good In Bed" by Jennifer Weiner
- March 3, 2005 "Our Lady of the Forest" by David Guterson
- February 3, 2005- "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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- August 5, 2004- "Falling Angels" by Tracy Chevalier
- July 1, 2004- "The Quilter's Apprentice" by Jennifer Chiaverini
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- February 5, 2004- "A Child Called It" by Dave Pelzer
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- July 12, 2001- "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink
- June 7, 2001- "Longings of Women" by Marge Piercy
- May 3, 2001- "Flags of Ours Fathers" by James Bradley
- April 5, 2001- "Tall Pines Polka" by Lorna Landvik
- March 1, 2001- "Ladies of Covington Send Their Love" by Joan Medlicott
- February 1, 2001- "The Vineyard" by Barbara Delinsky
- January 4, 2001- "Shell Seekers" by Rosamonde Pilcher
- November 2, 2000- "I Know Just What You Mean" by Ellen Goodman and Patricia O'Brien
- October 5, 2000- "The Rocket Boys" by Homer Hickam
- September 7, 2000 "Where the Heart Is" by Billie Letts
- August 3, 2000- "Gap Creek" by Robert Morgan
- July 6, 2000- "Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
- June 1, 2000- Amy & Isabelle" by Elizabeth Stout
- May 4, 2000- "Cider House Rules" by John Irving
- April 6, 2000- Books by Ursula Hegi "Stones from the River" and "Visions of Emma Blau"
- March 2, 2000 - "First Ladies" by Betty Caroli
- February 3, 2000 - "Snow Falling On Cedars" by David Gutterson
- January 6, 2000- Books by Alice Hoffman
- November 4, 1999 "Seasons of Sun and Rain" by Marjorie Dorner
- October 7, 1999- "Pilot's Wife" by Anita Shreve
- September 1999- "Memoirs of A Geisha" by Arthur Golden
- August 5, 1999- "Ulysses" by James Joyce
- July 1999 - "The Novel" by James Michener
- June 1999 - "Midwives" by Chris Bohjalian
- May 1999 - "I Know This Much Is True" by Wally Lamb
- April 1999 ?
- March 1999 ?
- February 1999 - "Ultimate Power" by Elizabeth Dole
- January 1999 - Books by the Bronte sisters
- December 1998 - books by Mark Twain
- November 1998 - "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
- October 1998 - "Tuesdays With Morrie" by Mitch Albom
- October 1998 - "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
- September 1998 - "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
- August 1998 - "The Notebook" and "Message In A Bottle" by Nicholas Sparks
- July 1998 - "Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil" by John Berendt
- June 1998 - "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt
- May 1998 - "The Shipping News" by Annie Proulx
- April 1998- canceled
- March 1998 - ?
- February 1998 - books about Eleanor Roosevelt
- January 1998 - books by Rosamunde Pilcher
- December 1997 - ?
- November 1997 - ?
- October 1997 - books by Anne Tyler
- September 1997 - "Beach Music" by Pat Conroy
- August 1997 - "Stone Diaries" by Carol Shieds
- July 1997 - "Book of Ruth" by Jane Hamilton
- July 1997 - "Absolute Power" by David Baldacci
- June 1997- organizational meeting
