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Brandon Reads is a community-wide book club that encourages the entire township to read one book together.
Recommendations
Book Recommendations
from Katherine Heiny
Currently reading:
We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman (not published yet, Nov 8, 2022)
*Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close
Worldly Things by Michael Kleber-Diggs (we can inter-library loan this title)
Other books I’ve liked recently:
*Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
+Notes on a Silencing by Lacy Crawford
*Either/Or by Elif Batuman
Books I’ve loved for a long time:
*The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
+We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
*Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
*Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close
Worldly Things by Michael Kleber-Diggs (we can inter-library loan this title)
Other books I’ve liked recently:
*Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
+Notes on a Silencing by Lacy Crawford
*Either/Or by Elif Batuman
Books I’ve loved for a long time:
*The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
+We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
*Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
*Brandon Library has a physical copy!
+Brandon Library has an electronic copy!
Contact us if you need help with any of these titles!
Brandon Reads – Week 5 Discussion
Why do you think the title of the book is Early Morning Riser? What questions would you want to ask the author of this book?
October 21, 2022
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Events
- Pick up a copy of the book: September 19, 2022
- Read: September 19 – October 19, 2022
- Book Discussion: October 19, 2022
- Ice Cream Social Author Talk: October 26, 2022
Read Early Morning Riser
Waiting FOREVER in Libby?
Event Dates
- Community Book Selection Survey: May 2-31, 2022
- Title Selection Announcement: September 1, 2022
- Pick up a copy of the book: September 19, 2022
- Read: September 19 – October 19, 2022
- Book Discussion: October 19, 2022
- Ice Cream Social Author Talk: October 26, 2022
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The Other Me
Sarah Zachrich Jeng
Adult Fiction
489 Pages
One minute Kelly’s a free-spirited artist in Chicago going to her best friend’s art show. The next, she opens a door and mysteriously emerges in her Michigan hometown. Suddenly her life is unrecognizable: She’s got twelve years of the wrong memories in her head and she’s married to Eric, a man she barely knew in high school. Racing to get back to her old life, Kelly’s search leads only to more questions. In this life, she loves Eric and wants to trust him, but everything she discovers about him—including a connection to a mysterious tech startup—tells her she shouldn’t. And strange things keep happening. The tattoos she had when she was an artist briefly reappear on her skin, she remembers fights with Eric that he says never happened, and her relationships with loved ones both new and familiar seem to change without warning. But the closer Kelly gets to putting the pieces together, the more her reality seems to shift. And if she can’t figure out what happened on her birthday, the next change could cost her everything…
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Dead of Winter
Stephen Mack Jones
Adult Fiction
304 Pages
Detroit ex-cop August Snow must fight for both his life and the soul of Mexicantown itself when a local business owner is targeted by an anonymous entity that is linked to a dangerous net of ruthless billionaire developers.
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The Marsh King’s Daughter
Karen Dionne
Adult Fiction
310 Pages
Helena Pelletier has a loving husband, two beautiful daughters, and a business that fills her days. But she also has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Helena, born two years after the abduction, loved her home in nature, and despite her father’s sometimes brutal behavior, she loved him, too…until she learned precisely how savage he could be. More than twenty years later, she has buried her past so soundly that even her husband doesn’t know the truth. But now her father has killed two guards, escaped from prison, and disappeared into the marsh. The police begin a manhunt, but Helena knows they don’t stand a chance. Knows that only one person has the skills to find the survivalist the world calls the Marsh King–because only one person was ever trained by him: his daughter.
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Fire Keeper’s Daughter
Angeline Boulley
Young Adult
499 Pages
18-year-old Daunis Fontaine of Sault Ste. Marie, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
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Early Morning Riser
Katherine Heiny
Adult Fiction
336 Pages
Jane moves to a small town in Northern Michigan to teach second grade and immediately falls in love with Duncan, a charming if not entirely reliable woodworker who she soon finds has been with nearly every woman in Boyne City. Follow Jane through the course of several years as she navigates the humor and disaster of a most unconventional relationship, all while trying to find a deeper kind of happiness.
