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How to read a book : a novel / Monica Wood.

Wood, Monica, (author.).

Summary:

"Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher. Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest. Frank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn't yet come to grips with the complications of his marriage to the woman Violet killed. When the three encounter each other one morning in a bookstore in Portland--Violet to buy the novel she was reading in the prison book club before her release, Harriet to choose the next title for the women who remain, and Frank to dispatch his duties as the store handyman--their lives begin to intersect in transformative ways. How to Read a Book is an unsparingly honest and profoundly hopeful story about letting go of guilt, seizing second chances, and the power of books to change our lives." --Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780063243675
  • ISBN: 0063243679
  • Physical Description: 280 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Boston : Mariner Books, [2024]
Subject: Women ex-convicts > Fiction.
Drunk driving > Fiction.
Drinking and traffic accidents > Fiction.
Book clubs (Discussion groups) > Fiction.
Widowers > Fiction.
Books and reading > Fiction.
Portland (Me.) > Fiction.
Genre: Humorous fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 0 of 4 copies available at Sage Library System.

Holds

  • 4 current holds with 4 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Status Due Date Courses
Baker County Library WOOD (Monica) (Text) 37814003685865 FICTION - NEW In transit -
Cascade Locks Library FIC WOOD (Text) 33892100980672 Adult Fiction In transit -
Milton-Freewater Public Library FIC Wood (Text) 37862000539494 NEW ADULT BOOKS Checked out 01/31/2025
The Dalles Wasco County Library WOOD (Text) 33892007045256 New Books Checked out 01/31/2025


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