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BHIA Book Club
Established in 2000 where a group meets every 4 – 6 weeks to discuss books. Barrington Books provides a discount to BHIA book club members.
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In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we will be holding meetings either at the beach – social distanced (if weather permits) or via Zoom.
Chasing Fireflies by Charles Martin
November date to be determined 13th @ 7pm via Zoom
They have one summer to find what was lost long ago.
“Never settle for less than the truth,” she told him.
On a stifling summer day, an old Chevy Impala ignored the warning signals and was annihilated by the oncoming train. What no one realized until much later was that the driver had paused just before entering the tracks and kicked a small boy out of the car. A small boy with broken glasses who is clutching a notebook with all his might . . . but who never speaks.
Chase Walker was one of the lucky ones. He was in foster care as a child, but he finally ended up with a family who loved him and cared for him. Now, as a journalist for the local paper, he’s moved on and put the past behind him.
But when he’s assigned the story of this young boy, painful, haunting questions about his own childhood begin to rise to the surface.
And as Chase Walker discovers, learning the truth about who you are can be as elusive—and as magical—as chasing fireflies on a summer night.
PAST BOOKS
- Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
- Gifts from the Sea by Ann Lingbergh
- Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
- Doris Duke – any book related to her life
- Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
- All Over but the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg
- Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- Chocolat by Joanne Harris
- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
- A Joyful Noise by Janet Gillespie
- While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamont
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding
- Wish You Well by David Balducci
- Plainsong by Kent Harof
- Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
- Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Bone Setter’s Daughter by Amy Tan
- Waiting by Ha Jin
- Vietnam – any fiction or non-fiction related book
- Blessings by Anna Quindlan
- In the Name of Salome by Julia Alvarez
- Flying Cloud by David Shaw
- Arrow Through the Heart by Deborah Heffernan
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- The Prince of Providence by Mike Stanton
- The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
- Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Nobody’s Fool by Richard Russo
- The Big House by George Howe Colt
- Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
- Sea Room by Norman Gautreau
- The Last Boy by Robert Lieberman
- Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
- Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
- The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
- Two Souls Indivisible by James Hirsch
- The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
- I Don’t Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
- Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani
- The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
- Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult
- Big Stone Gap Trilogy by Adriana Trigiani
- Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
- If You Could See Me Now by Michael Mewshaw
- The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
- Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
- Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell
- Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
- Eat, Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
- Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish
- A Woman’s Place: A Novel by Lynn Austin
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Faith Club by Idliby by Oliver Warner
- The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
- Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
- Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
- The Working Poor by David Shipler
- Inheriting the Trade by Thomas DeWolf
- Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
- Growing Up by Russell Baker
- Crashing Through by Robert Kurson
- any David Sedaris book by David Sedaris
- Having Our Say by the Delany Sisters
- Send Yourself Roses by Kathleen Turner
- Molokai by Alan Brennert
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
- The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
- Home by Marilynne Robinson
- The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo by Stieg Larsson
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
- MagicTime by Doug Marlette
- Making Rounds with Oscar by David Dosa
- Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
- One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet by Jamie Ford
- The Widowers Tale by Julia Glass
- Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
- The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
- HELA Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
- My Father’s Secret War by Lucinda Franks
- The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
- The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- Mudbound by Hillary Jordon
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
- Blindspot: A Novel by Jane Kemensky & Jill Lepore
- Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
- Hawke’s Cove by Susan Wilson
- Lots of Candles Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlan
- The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
- Defending Jacob by William Landay
- The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb
- Montana 1948 & Justice by Larry Watson
- The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
- The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker
- Rules of Civility by Armor Towles
- The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevaliar
- Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly
- The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
- We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
- Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah
- The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
- Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised our Nation by Cokie Roberts
- Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
- Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
- The Circle by Dave Eggers
- The Dinner by Herman Koch
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
- Wild by Cheryl Strayed
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- Stoner by John Williams
- The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kid
- Norwegian by Night by Derek Miller
- Mean Streak by Sandra Brown
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
- Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
- The Children Act by Ian McEwan
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
- The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
- March by Geraldine Brooks
- The Widow by Fiona Barton
- Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
- Terminal City by Linda Fairstein
- Still Life by Louise Penny
- Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
- The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
- When Breathe Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- The Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- The Highlands by Bill Whelan
- Rent Collector by Camron Wright
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
- Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- When Books went to War by Molly Guptill Manning
- Baby with the Bathwater by Christopher Durang (play)
- Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
- The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
- The Betrayed by Maria Milot
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
- Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- The Address by Fiona Davis
- Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Water will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell
- A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline
- A Maze at WIndermere by Gregory Blake Smith
- American Girl: Scenes from a Small Town Childhood by Mary Cantwell
- Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney
- The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
- Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Born a Crime: Stories from South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
- The Dutch House by Ann Patchet
- The Only Woman in the Room by Heather Terrell (aka Marie Benedict)
- Chasing Fireflies by Charles Martin