First Saturday Book Club

The First Saturday Book Club will meet the first Saturday of every month at Books Inc. in Berkeley. Readings will feature works of contemporary fiction.

Sounds Like Crazy (Paperback)

By Shana Mahaffey

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780451227911
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: NAL Trade, 10/01/2009

February 2010 Selection: Though she doesn't remember the trauma that caused it, Holly Miller has Dissociative Identity Disorder. Her personality has fractured into five different identities, together known as The Committee. And as much as they make Holly's life hell, she can't live without them. Then one of those identities, the flirtatious, southern Betty Jane, lands Holly a voiceover job. Betty Jane wants nothing more than to be in the spotlight. The rest of The Committee wants Betty Jane to shut up. Holly's therapist wants to get to the bottom of her broken psyche. And Holly? She's just along for the ride.

Incendiary (Paperback)

By Chris Cleave

$12.95

ISBN-13: 9781400096688
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Anchor, 09/01/2006

January 2010 Selection: At once a novel and an open letter to Osama bin Laden, this work is a shocking, hilarious, and heartbreaking debut that crashes head on into huge questions of right and wrong, good and evil, madness and sanity.

No One You Know (Paperback)

By Michelle Richmond

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780385340144
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Bantam, 05/01/2009

December 2009 Selection: The author of the luminous work The Year of Fog returns with an intensely emotional, multilayered family drama - a woman's search for her sister's killer that spirals into a journey of secrets, revelations, and damaged lives.

The Whole World Over (Paperback)

By Julia Glass

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9781400075768
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Anchor, 06/01/2007

November 2009 Selection: Greenie Duquette lavishes most of her passionate energy on her Greenwich Village bakery and her young son. Her husband, Alan, seems to have fallen into a midlife depression, while Walter, her closest professional ally, is nursing a broken heart. At Walter's restaurant, the visiting governor of New Mexico tastes Greenie's coconut cake and decides to woo her away to be his chef. For reasons both ambitious and desperate, she accepts-heading west without her husband. This impulsive decision, along with events beyond Greenie's control, will change the course of several lives around her.

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