| Description |
12 books (325, 7 pages ; 20 cm) + 1 book discussion guide (in binder), in bag. |
| Series |
Reese's book club |
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Reese's book club.
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| Note |
Please inquire at Adult Services Desk for specific location. |
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Book Discussion guide includes: "Tips and Tricks for Leading a Book Club" ; Questions ; Author Biography ; Reviews ; Read-alikes. |
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"Reese's Book Club." |
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Includes: A Penguin Readers Guide to Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. |
| Summary |
"Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out), means that Eleanor has become a creature of habit (to say the least) and a bit of a loner. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kind of friends who rescue each other from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond's big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Awards |
Costa First Novel Award, Shortlist 2017. |
| Subject |
Single women -- Fiction.
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Social isolation -- Fiction.
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Intergenerational relations -- Fiction.
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Friendship -- Fiction.
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Computer technicians -- Fiction.
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Computer technicians. |
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Friendship. |
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Intergenerational relations. |
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Single women. |
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Social isolation. |
| Local Subject |
BOOK CLUB IN A BAG
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| Genre |
Psychological fiction.
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Love stories.
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| ISBN |
9780735220690 (paperback) |
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0735220697 (paperback) |
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