Lake Bluff Library Adult Reading Lists: Good Morning America Book Club

Five interlocking lives. One beloved story. A dazzling adventure across centuries and continents in search of the things that hold us together. (description from NoveList)

A social media celebrity, a wife and mother who sells her fantasy pioneer lifestyle of sourdough and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of followers, suddenly wakes up cold, dirty, and hungry in the year 1805 and must uncover the nature - hoax, reality show, test from God.
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Beverley, Elsie, and Margot are not your average housewives. They are all wives of convicted serial killers. In California during the summer of 1966, the three women form an unlikely friendship after the discoveries of their husbands' brutal crimes. With their exes dead or behind bars, they are attempting to forge a new future for themselves.
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Natalie has only ever wanted to find "the one." The perfect man, the happy family she never had. But each time she thinks she is finally getting somewhere, she's bitterly disappointed. Another red line through a list of exes. And that was before the night of the Big Fallout that left her even more alone.
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1664: Alouette Voland is the daughter of a master dyer at the famed Gobelin Tapestry Works, who dreams of escaping her circumstances and creating her own masterpiece. When her father is unjustly imprisoned, Alouette's efforts to save him lead to her own confinement in the notorious Salpêtrière asylum, where thousands of women are held captive. But within its walls, she discovers a group of brave allies, and the possibility of a life bigger than she ever imagined.
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Eighteen months and eleven lost bidding wars into house-hunting in the overheated Washington, DC, suburbs, 37-year-old publicist Margo Miyake is desperate to escape the cramped apartment she shares with her husband--and, in turn, fix their marriage, have a baby, and get their life started.
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In Western Massachusetts, Rocky juggles family life with her husband, adult children and aging father, until her fixation on a local accident and an ominous medical concern stirs up anxieties that threaten to upend her fragile sense of normalcy.
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Young Alfie Logan can rewind any moment for a do-over--but must accept the results of his second try; having navigated through adolescence and finding seemingly lasting love with Gianna, he must confront an impossible choice when his power unravels during a casino arrest.
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A spectacular historical and speculative novel about a WWII-era girl who grows up trapped in the time space, a cavernous library featuring books that house memories--but while government agents burn memories they wish to erase, she saves them, until an affair with an American CIA agent as a young woman changes the course of her life.
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Thirty-six hours after being attacked, Jet wakes in the hospital to grim news that a bone fragment is putting pressure on her brain’s arterial wall and will cause a fatal hemorrhage--instead of choosing surgery with a slim chance of survival, she uses her last week to find her murderer.
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Lily, a disillusioned young woman, competes in a high-stakes reality show on a desert compound where personal bonds, hidden desperation, and escalating challenges blur the lines between game strategy and survival amidst a crumbling outside world.
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Joan Goodwin, a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University, dreams of going to space after seeing an ad for NASA’s space shuttle program. Selected in 1980, she trains at Johnson Space Center with fellow candidates. As they prepare for their first flights, Joan finds new passion and love, questioning her place in the universe.
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