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A new nonfiction option for your book group, written by Erik Larson, author of Devil in the White City:

In the Garden of Beasts: love, terror and an American family in Hitler's Berlin

Documents the efforts of the first American ambassador to Hitler's Germany, William E. Dodd, to acclimate to a residence in an increasingly violent city where he is forced to associate with the Nazis while his daughter pursues a relationship with Gestapochief Rudolf Diels.

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A new fiction title available as a Book Group to Go bag

The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

Description: While a cellist plays at the site of a mortar attack to commemorate the deaths of twenty-two friends and neighbors, a woman sniper secretly protects the life of the cellist as her army becomes increasingly threatening. Fiction

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Another Book Group To Go Bag -- this book written by a local author.

Heather Sellers grew up in a family with an alcoholic father and a paranoid schizophrenic mother. In her moving memoir the author, a Hope College professor, also tells about her struggle with face blindness, a rare neurological disorder which prevents her from recognizing people by face.

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If your book group is looking for an fiction title, you may want to try the latest book group addition -- Room by Emma Donoghue. In this very moving book a five-year-old narrates a story about his life growing up in a single room where his mother aims to protect him from the man who has held her prisoner for seven years since she was a teenager. Available in a book group to go bag.

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Here are two nonfiction additions to the Book Group to Go Bags.

Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo is the story of the four-year-old son of a Nebraska pastor who during emergency slips from consciousness and enters heaven.

Cycling Home from Siberia by Rob Lilwall tells the story of a man's decision to leave his job as a geography teacher in England to travel home from Siberia by bicycle and his adventures along the way.

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If you liked The Help, here is another Book Group to Go Bag your group may enjoy:

Catfish Alley by Lynne Bryant

White Southerner Roxanne Reeves teams up with an elderly retired black schoolteacher to research the town's African-American history for a tour, and is transported back into the racially charged past and the events that continue to change lives. Fiction