Share your love of literature and connect with other Mercy women by joining our Alumnae Book Club! To receive notice of book club happenings, send an email to Tina Cyrol Russette '76 at tmrussette@att.net.
Join our discussions remotely by visiting our Events page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MercyHighAlumnaeMI.
Schedule
All meetings are scheduled from 6:30-8:00 pm.
* The Book Club, and any alumnae who wish to join us, will meet in January to view the movie The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Information regarding the time and location will be provided once the movie has been released on December 21st.
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Month
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Title
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Author
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| April 2012 | Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet | Jamie Ford |
| March 2012 | The Paris Wife: A Novel | Paula McLain |
| February 2012 | Mudbound | Hillary Jordan |
| January 2012 | Saving CeeCee Honeycutt: A Novel | Beth Hoffman |
| November 2011 | The Arc of Justice | Kevin Boyle |
| October 2011 | The Art of Racing in the Rain | Garth Stein |
| September 2011 | The Winter of our Discontent | John Steinbeck |
| April 2011 | An Object of Beauty: A Novel | Steve Martin |
| February 2011 | You're Not You | Michelle Wildgen |
| January 2011 | Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout |
| November 2010 | The Next Thing on My List | Jill Smolinski |
| October 2010 | Shadow Baby | Alison McGhee |
| September 2010 | Sister of My Heart | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
| July 2010 | Little Bee | Chris Cleave |
| June 2010 | The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes | Diane Chamberlain |
| -May 2010 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson and Reg Kelland |
| April 2010 | Push | Sapphire |
| March 2010 | The Help | Kathryn Stockett |
| February 2010 | The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold |
| December 2009 | The Sugar Queen | Sarah Addison Allen |
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November 2009
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Roseflower Creek | J.L. Miles |
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October 2009
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Back When We Were Grownups | Anne Tyler |
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September 2009
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Handle with Care | Jodi Picoult |
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March 2009
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The Longest Trip Home : A Memoir | John Grogan |
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February 2009
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle | David Wroblewski |
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January 2009
|
Sold | Patricia McCormick |
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November 2008
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The Last Lecture | Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow |
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October 2008
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows |
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August/September 2008
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time |
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin |
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July 2008
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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose | Eckhart Tolle |
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June 2008
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The Woods | Harlan Coben |
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March 2008
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Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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January 2008 |
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything across Italy, India and Indonesia | Elizabeth Gilbert |
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December 2007
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Left to Tell: One Woman's Story of Surviving the Rwandan Holocaust | Immaculee Ilibagiza |
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November 2007
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The Faith Club | Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner |
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October 2007
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The Family Tree | Barbara Delinsky |
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September 2007
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The Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett |
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July 2007
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | Ishmael Beah |
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June 2007
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Lisa See |
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May 2007
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Measure of a Man | Sydney Poitier |
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April 2007
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The Life Before Her Eyes | Laura Kasischke |
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March 2007
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Water for Elephants | Sara Groen |
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Jan / Feb 2007
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Suite Francaise | Irene Nemirovsky |
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December 2006
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Tender Bar- A Memoir | J.R. Moehringer |
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November 2006
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The Glass Castle - A Memoir by | Jeanette Walls |
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October 2006
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Baby Proof | Emily Griffin |
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September 2006
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter | Kim Edwards |
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August 2006
|
Mercy | Jodi Picoult |
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July 2006
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The Year of Pleasures | Elizabeth Berg |
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June 2006
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My Sister's Keeper | Jodi Picoult |
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April 2006
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Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles | Anthony Swofford |
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March 2006
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How to Be Lost | Amanda Eyre Ward |
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February 2006
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Mary, Called Magdalene | Margaret George |
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January 2006
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In Her Shoes | Jennifer Weiner |
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November 2005
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A Devil in the White City | Erik Larson |
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October 2005
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The Last Days of Dogtown | Anita Diamant |
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July 2005
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The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
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June 2005
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Pope Joan | Donna Cross |
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April 2005
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir | Augusten Burroughs |
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March 2005
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The Hours | Michael Cunningham |
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February 2005
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime | Mark Haddon |
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January 2005
|
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim | David Sedaris |
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December 2004
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When Christmas Comes | Debbie Macomber |
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November 2004
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Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides |
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October 2004
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Salem Falls | Jodi Picoult |
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September 2004
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Little Children | Tom Perrotta |
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August 2004
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The Color of Water | James McBride |
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July 2004
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The Pact | Jodi Picoult |
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May 2004
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Three Weeks with My Brother |
Nicholas Sparks & Micah Sparks |
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April 2004
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PS, I Love You | Cecelia Ahern |
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March 2004
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Mr. Paradise | Elmore Leonard |
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February 2004
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The Seduction of Water | Carol Goodman |
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January 2004
|
Monk Downstairs | Tim Farrington |
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