Brown Bag Book Discussion - October 2002

Fourteen year old Susie Fish has been brutally raped and murdered yet from heaven she watches her family and friends cope with her death and their lives afterwards. This beautifully written novel focuses on human connections and family and the different ways we cope with loss and love.

This funny black comedy follows cookbook writer Jasmine March who has a love for food as well as for her husband. Unfortunately he is having an affair with a super skinny actress who winds up dead in Jasmine's kitchen.

Founded by a group of friends in 1982, Best Friends, located in Kanab, Utah, is the largest no-kill animal shelter in the United States. Best Friends tells the wonderful story of the beginings of this incredible organization and how it has grown to house up to 3,000 creatures and a 70% adoption rate!

In her latest mystery, Grafton weaves in a real life muder mystery. When two retiring cops ask Kinsey Millhone to re-open an 18 year old murder case, she tries her best to find out what happened to a unidentified girl left dead in a quarry. What they don't expect is for the muders to start up again.

With her usually wit and charm, Flagg follows the lives of the people of Elmwood Springs Missouri. From the late 1940's up through the 90's, we watch as small-town life, the United States and the world change for better or for worse. Sweet and funny though darker in areas than her other novels

When Lois Jenson and other women went to work in the Eveleth Mines in 1975 the were harassed, degraded, and brutalized by their co-workers and empoyers. Bingham follows the long legal case that ensued and the changes it brought about to harassment law.

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