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02369aam a22003495i 4500 001 CCEF96F4723211EE9479EED542ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231024010053 008 230613s2023 miu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2023940566 020 $a 9798885793742 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 100 1 $a Bryan Thomas, Julia $e author. 245 14 $a The radcliffe ladies' reading club $c Julia Bryan Thomas. 250 $a Large print. 263 $a 2310 264 1 $a Farmington Hills : $b Thorndike Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 459 pages (large print) 520 $a "A story of female freedom and constraints that doesn't shy away from the trauma--and joy--that faced U.S. women in the 1950s." (Kirkus) Literature impacts us all uniquely -- but also unites us. Massachusetts, 1954. Alice Campbell escapes halfway across the country and finds herself in front of a derelict building tucked among the cobblestone streets of Cambridge, and she turns that sad little shop into the charming bookstore of her dreams. Tess, Caroline, Evie, and Merritt become fast friends in the sanctuary of Alice's monthly reading club at The Cambridge Bookshop, where they escape the pressures of being newly independent college women in a world that seems to want to keep them in the kitchen. But they each embody very different personalities, and when a member of the group finds herself shattered, everything they know about each other--and themselves--will be called into question. A heart-wrenching, inspiring, extraordinary love letter to books set against the backdrop of one of the most pivotal periods in American history, The Radcliffe Ladies' Reading Club explores how women forge their own paths, regardless of what society expects of them, and illuminates the importance of literature and the vital conversations it sparks" $c Provided by publisher. 650 $a Women college students 650 $a Book clubs (Discussion groups) 650 $a Booksellers and bookselling 650 $a Female friendship 650 $a Historical fiction 650 $a Cambridge (Mass.) 650 $a Massachusetts $x Cambridge 941 $a 3 952 $l FGPD194 $d 20240515011741.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20231104011713.0 952 $l EZPE755 $d 20231024013316.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CCEF96F4723211EE9479EED542ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search