Best Book Club
Best Book Club is a private book club.
This is a private book club. Book club members, make sure to mention your book club when checking out at Bookmarks to save 20% off your book club purchases or use your coupon code for online purchases. Ask your book club coordinator for details or email bookstore manager Beth Seufer Buss at beth@bookmarksnc.org.
Upcoming Selections:
- October: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- November: Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
- December: Gods of Noonday by Elaine Neil Orr
- February: Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
- March: Educated by Tara Westover
- April: In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
"A gifted writer, astonishingly adept at nuance, narration, and the politics of passion."—Toni Morrison
Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez,$26.00ISBN: 9780735219090Availability: Order Processes in 1-5 Days Depending on Store StockPublished: G.P. Putnam's Sons - August 14th, 2018#1 New York Times Bestseller
A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
"I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!"--Reese Witherspoon
"Painfully beautiful."--The New York Times Book Review
"Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver."--Bustle
$18.00ISBN: 9781501154836Availability: Order Processes in 1-5 Days Depending on Store StockPublished: Scribner - April 3rd, 2018From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review), a moving novel about tradition, tea farming, and the bonds between mothers and daughters.
In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea.$18.95ISBN: 9780813925103Availability: Order Processes in 1-5 Days Depending on Store StockPublished: University of Virginia Press - August 16th, 2005The daughter of medical missionaries, Elaine Neil Orr was born in Nigeria in 1954, in the midst of the national movement that would lead to independence from Great Britain. But as she tells it in her captivating new memoir, Orr did not grow up as a stranger abroad; she was a girl at home--only half American, the other half Nigerian.
$17.00ISBN: 9780142438008Availability: Order Processes in 1-5 Days Depending on Store StockPublished: Penguin Classics - July 31st, 2007MI6’s man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true…
$28.00ISBN: 9780399590504Availability: Order Processes in 1-5 Days Depending on Store StockPublished: Random House - February 20th, 2018#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • BILL GATES’S HOLIDAY READING LIST • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOO
$16.00ISBN: 9781451657715Availability: Order Processes in 1-5 Days Depending on Store StockPublished: Simon & Schuster - June 4th, 2013A beautiful celebration of the power of hope, this New York Times bestselling novel tells the story of a girl who comes of age during the Cambodian genocide.
You are about to read an extraordinary story, a PEN Hemingway Award finalist “rich with history, mythology, folklore, language and emotion.” It will take you to the very depths of despair and show you unspeakable hor
