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.
$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780307456618
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Published: Vintage, 08/01/2010
October 2010 Selection: A gripping and lyrical story--at once expansive and lush with detail--this debut novel is a deeply intimate exploration of the search for love and authenticity, power and redemption, in the lives of three women.

Water Ghosts (Paperback)

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ISBN-13: 9780143117278
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 07/01/2010
September 2010 Selection:

The Black Minutes (Paperback)

By Martin Solares, Aura Estrada (Translator)
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ISBN-13: 9780802170682
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Published: Grove Press, Black Cat, 05/01/2010
August 2010 Selection: When a young journalist named Bernardo Blanco is killed in the fictional Mexican port city of Paracun, investigation into his murder reveals missing links in a disturbing multiple homicide case from 20 years earlier.

Cutting for Stone (Paperback)

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ISBN-13: 9780375714368
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Published: Vintage, 01/01/2010
July 2010 Selection: A stunning debut novel from the author of My Own Country, Cutting for Stone offers an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, fathers and sons, doctors and patients, exile and home.

Water Ghosts (Paperback)

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ISBN-13: 9780143117278
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Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 07/01/2010

September 2010 Selection:


Chef (Paperback)

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ISBN-13: 9781608190850
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Published: Bloomsbury USA, 03/01/2010
June 2010 Selection: Mesmerizing, mournful, and intensely lyrical, Chef is a brave and compassionate debut about hope, love, and memory set against the devastatingly beautiful, war-scarred backdrop of occupied Kashmir.

Sounds Like Crazy (Paperback)

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ISBN-13: 9780451227911
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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)

$12.95
ISBN-13: 9781400096688
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
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.

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ISBN-13: 9781400075768
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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.

No One You Know (Paperback)

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ISBN-13: 9780385340144
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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.