Starting the Conversation: Adult Fiction

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1. Calling Me Home

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Author:
Kibler, Julie
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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Description:

A soaring debut interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship

Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser, Dorrie Curtis. It's a big one. Isabelle wants Dorrie, a black single mother in her thirties, to drop everything and drive her from her home in Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati—with no clear explanation why—tomorrow.

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2. A good neighborhood

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Author:
Fowler, Therese
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Formats:
Book, Audiobook, Large Print
Description:
"A gripping contemporary novel that examines the American dream through the lens of two families living side by side in an idyllic neighborhood, and the one summer that changes their lives irrevocably."--