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Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber
An Iraqi-American is the chef at a small Los Angeles café, where Arab-Americans come to feel at home. A folkloric family story is interwoven with this contemporary tale of love, food and home. Book Discussion Questions from W. W. Norton

The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
The story of Jan Zabinsky, the director of the Warsaw zoo, and his wife Antonina, who sheltered 300 Jews and Polish resisters in the zoo's cages and sheds during WWII. Book Discussion Questions from BookBrowse

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
When she visits her liberated and loving aunt, life dramatically changes for a 15-year old Nigerian girl who has grown up in sheltered privilege with a wealthy father who is politically courageous but religiously fanatic. Book Discussion Questions from ReadingGroupGuides

American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar
This coming-of-age story centers on young Hayat Shah, a Pakistani-American living in Milwaukee. His family's dynamics, and their various levels of engagement with Islam, are at the center of the novel. Book Discussion Questions from Book Browse

For One More Day by Mitch Albom
Albom explores the idea of having one more day to relive with someone you love in this novel. Here, alcoholic ex-baseball star Chick encounters his dead mother after his attempted suicide. Book Discussion Questions from ReadingGroupChoices

The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Civil rights advocate and legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that a new permanent under-class has been created by the war on drugs and the denial of equal access to employment, housing, public benefits and education to ex-prisoners. Book Discussion Questions from ISO-Madison

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
A humorous, gritty, autobiographical novel of a budding cartoonist, who leaves his troubled school on a Spokane Indian reservation to attend an all-white town school. Book Discussion Questions from Sherman Alexie

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
An orphan raised in Valparaiso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California during the Gold Rush of 1849 and meets a Chinese herbalist, who becomes her soul mate, on the journey. Book Discussion Questions from ReadingGroupGuides

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Interwoven stories of four Latina sisters chronicling their assimilation into the United States and their visits back to the Dominican Republic. Book Discussion Questions from Tacoma PL

The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam
Intertwined stories of four people devastated by the war in Afghanistan: a British doctor mourning the loss of his Afghan wife and daughter; a former CIA officer; the sister of a missing Russian soldier; and an orphan raised into a Taliban madrassa. Book Discussion Questions from Barnes and Noble

Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Ruby Lennox gives an account of family life above a petshop in England, revealing the lives of the women in her family, from her great-grandmother's affair with a French photographer to her mother's unfulfilled dreams of Hollywood glamour. Book Discussion Questions from ReadingGroupGuides

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Private detective Jackson Brodie investigates three cases: two disappearances from long ago and a search for a witness to a murder. In typical fashion for this series, however, Brodie's personal life shares center stage with the detective work. Book Discussion Questions from ReadingGroupGuides

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
In this multi-layered novel, a dying octogenarian recalls her past, including her forced marriage, her sister's suicide, and the publication of her sister's science fiction novel, The Blind Assassin. Book Discussion Questions from ReadingGroupGuides

Please Don't Come Back from the Moon by Dean Bakopoulos
In suburban Detroit the lives of teenage sons are dramatically altered after the fathers in their neighborhood disappear. Book Discussion Questions from Marshall Cook, UW

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
54 year-old Renée and 12 year-old Paloma come from very different backgrounds, but both have a deep emotional life that they shield from the world. An unlikely friendship forms as they share their journeys and perspectives on everyday life. Book Discussion Questions from Europa Editions

Regeneration by Pat Barker
Patients and the doctors that treat them for shell-shock are the focus of this World War I novel based on actual people and events. Book Discussion Questions from MPL

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
This Booker Prize winner is suspenseful tale of memory and self-knowledge. When Tony receives a classmate's diary from 40+ years before, it leads to a re-examination of his younger years and what he thought was true. Book Discussion Questions from Princeton Book Review

Winter Study by Nevada Barr
Anna Pigeon returns to Isle Royale, this time in winter, to participate in a wolf study. Strange happenings and enormous pawprints fuel the anxiety of she and her cabin-mates. Book Discussion Questions from MPL

Borderline by Nevada Barr
National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon is on vacation in Texas's Big Bend National Park when a guided rafting trip meets with multiple tragedies and Anna must care for a newborn baby. Book Discussion Questions from MPL

The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
A self-confessed unreliable narrator relates this mystery set in modern day Salem, Mass. The novel is filled with eccentric characters, historic details, and women's issues. Book Discussion Questions from ReadingGroupChoices

Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg
In this work of fiction, a popular and prolific novelist faces the death of her husband, writer's block, and conflict with her daughter. Book Discussio Questions from ReadingGroupGuides

The Scent of God by Beryl Bissell
A former nun recounts her cloistered life as well as her romance with a priest 25 years her senior that culminated in marriage. Joys and sorrows follow as she has two children, yet loses her husband to cancer and one daughter to murder. Book Discussion Questions from the author

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
Interwoven stories of three American women at the start of World War II: a single 40-year old postmistress in a small town on Cape Cod, a newlywed new to the town, and a reporter in London working under Edward R. Morrow. Book Discussion Questions from ReadingGroupGuides

Away by Amy Bloom
Lillian Leyb, survivor of a Russian massacre, immigrates to New York in 1924. Upon learning her 3-year-old daughter may still be alive, she journeys across North America through the Yukon wilderness and over the Bering Strait to find her. Book Discussion Questions from BookBrowse

Water Witches by Chris Bohjalian
Vermont environmentalists seeking to preserve a mountainous wildlife habitat confront developers of a ski resort promising new jobs. Book Discussion Questions from Simon and Schuster