GIPL Book Club - 2014 Selections

Reading list from the 2014 GIPL Book Club

Also includes:

  • The Homemaker by Dorothy Canfield-Fisher

Updated September 22, 2025
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We were the Mulvaneys
Oates, Joyce Carol
Paper Book
An Oprah Book Club® selection A New York Times Notable Book The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet. But something happens on Valentine's Day, 1976--an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home-...
Once upon a town : the miracle of the North Platte Canteen
Greene, Bob.
Ebook
This New York Times bestseller shares the true story of a small Midwest town's hospitality to U.S. soldiers traveling to the battlefields of World War II. In search of "the best America there ever was," award-winning journalist Bob Greene finds it in Nebraska...
The girls of Atomic City : the untold story of the women who helped win World War II
Kiernan, Denise.
Paper Book
The incredible story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in US history. At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City....
The light between oceans : a novel
Stedman, M. L.
Paper Book
The years-long New York Times bestseller and major motion picture from Spielberg's Dreamworks is "irresistible...seductive...with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page" (O, The Oprah Magazine). After four harrowing years on the Western Front...
The widower's tale
Glass, Julia
Paper Book
In a quirky farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling enjoys a vigorous but solitary life. To help his oldest daughter through a crisis, he allows a progressive preschool to move into his barn. The transformation of his refuge into a lively, youthful community compels him to reexamine...

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