Title: The CircleAuthor: Dave EggersPage Count: 491 pagesGenre: Fiction, FuturisticTone: Thought-Provoking, Witty, Quick Summary:When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking,…
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Book Discussion Questions: Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
Title: Where'd You Go BernadetteAuthor: Maria SemplePage Count: 330 pagesGenre: Humorous FictionTone: Offbeat, Exuberant Summary:Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.…
Book Discussion Questions: Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman and Paul Clarke Newell
Title: Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American FortuneAuthor: Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, JR.Page Count: 456 pagesGenre: Nonfiction, BiographiesTone: Suspenseful, Extravagant Summary:When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed a property listing for a grand estate that had been unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled…
Book Discussion Questions: The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Title: The Round HouseAuthor: Louise ErdrichPage Count: 321 pagesGenre: Coming of Age Stories, Literary FictionTone: Reflective, Moving, Bleak Summary from publisher:One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface because Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to…
Book Discussion Questions: Quiet by Susan Cain
Title: QuietAuthor: Susan CainPage Count: 352 pagesGenre: Non-FictionTone: Thought-provoking, Reflective, Accessible Summary from publisher:Passionately argued, impressively researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet shows how dramatically we undervalue introverts, and how much we lose in doing so. Taking the reader on a journey from Dale Carnegie’s birthplace to Harvard Business School, from…
Book Discussion Questions: Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Title: Orphan TrainAuthor: Christina Baker KlinePage Count: 278 pagesGenre: Historical FictionTone: Thoughtful, Poignant, Sobering Summary from publisher:Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to “aging out” out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse... As…
Book Discussion Questions: What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Title: What Alice ForgotAuthor: Liane MoriartyPage Count: 487 pagesGenre: Contemporary fiction, Women’s lives and relationshipsTone: Reflective, Humorous SPOILER WARNING:These book discussion questions are highly detailed and will ruin plot points if you have not read the book. Questions composed by MPPL Staff The Library is happy to share these original questions for your use. If…
Book Discussion Questions: The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
Title: The Other Wes MooreAuthor: Wes MoorePage Count: 233Genre: Memoir, pop sociologyTone: Moving, fast-paced, thoughtful SPOILER WARNING: These book discussion questions are highly detailed and will ruin plot points, if you have not read the book. Questions composed by MPPL Staff The Library is happy to share these original questions for your use. If reproducing,…
Book Discussion Questions: The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Title: The Language of FlowersAuthor: Vanessa DiffenboughPage Count: 322Genre: Contemporary FictionTone: Engaging, emotional SPOILER WARNING: These book discussion questions are highly detailed and will ruin plot points, if you have not read the book. Questions composed by MPPL Staff The Library is happy to share these original questions for your use. If reproducing, please credit…
Book Discussion Questions: The Submission by Amy Waldman
SPOILER WARNING: These book discussion questions are highly detailed and will ruin plot points, if you have not read the book. Title: The SubmissionAuthor: Amy WaldmanPage Count: 299Genre: Contemporary FictionTone: Issue-driven, dramatic, politically provocative Questions composed by MPPL Staff The Library is happy to share these original questions for your use. If reproducing, please credit…
