View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Rules

by Cynthia Lord

Published: 2008-09-01

Paperback: 224 pages

0 members reading this now
5 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

This 2007 Newbery Honor Book is a humorous and heartwarming debut about feeling different and finding acceptance. Now in After Words paperback!Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around ...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Rules for Old Men Waiting: A Novel

by Peter Pouncey

Published: 2006-05-30

Paperback: 240 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

A brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge, Rules for Old Men Waiting is about three wars of the twentieth century and an ever-deepening marriage. In a house on the Cape ?older than the Republic,? Robert MacIver, a historian who long ago played rugby for Scotland, creates a li...

View Reading GUide

* * *

Be the first to rate this book!

Rules for Radicals

by Saul D. Alinsky

Published: 1989-10-23

Paperback: 224 pages

0 members reading this now
3 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Written in the midst of radical political development...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Rules for Virgins: Wherein Magic Gourd Advises Young Violet on How to Become a Popular Courtesan While Avoiding Cheapskates, False Love, and Suicide

by Amy Tan

Published: 2013-07-01

Audio CD

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

In her startlingly sensual story, Rules for Virgins, beloved bestselling author Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter’s Daughter) takes us deep into the illicit world of 1912 Shanghai, where beautiful courtesans mercilessly compete for the patronage of wealthy gentlemen. For the women, the contest...

View Reading GUide

* * * Interesting,
Dramatic,
Romantic

1 club review

Review This book

Rules of Attraction

by Simone Elkeles

Published: 2010-04-13

Hardcover: 336 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

Recommended to book clubs by 1 of 1 members

Carlos Fuentes doesn't want any part of the life his older brother, Alex, has laid out for him in Boulder, Colorado. He wants to keep living on the edge, and carve his own path?just like Alex did. Unfortunately, his ties to a Mexican gang aren't easy to break, and he soon finds himself bei...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

The Rules of Attraction

by Bret Easton Ellis

Published: 1998-06-30

Paperback: 288 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Set at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England at the height of the Reagan 80s, The Rules of Attraction is a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students with no plans for the future--or even the present--who become entangled in a curious romantic triangle. Br...

View Reading GUide

* * * * Interesting,
Insightful,
Adventurous

6 club reviews

Review This book

Rules of Civility

by Amor Towles

Published: 2012-08-07

Paperback: 577 pages

5 members reading this now
13 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Recommended to book clubs by 5 of 6 members

WHAT THEY SAID about RULES OF CIVILITY: 'Everything about this novel, set in 1930s New York, is achingly stylish - from the author's name to the slinky jacket design. Katey Kontent, daughter of Russian immigrants, and Evie Ross, from the sleepy midwest, are an ambitious, wisecracking pair who, despite...

View Reading GUide

* * * * Interesting,
Insightful,
Dramatic

56 club reviews

Review This book

Rules of Civility: A Novel

by Amor Towles

Published: 2011-07-26

Hardcover: 352 pages

207 members reading this now
344 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Recommended to book clubs by 49 of 56 members

The New York Times bestselling novel that "enchants on first reading and only improves on the second" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) This sophisticated and entertaining first novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. On the last night of 1937, tw...

View Reading GUide

* * *

1 club review

Review This book

Rules of Deception

by Christopher Reich

Published: 2008-07-15

Hardcover: 400 pages

1 member reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

Recommended to book clubs by 1 of 1 members

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

The Rules of Inheritance

by Claire Bidwell Smith

Published: 2012-02-02

Hardcover: 304 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

A resonant memoir of the ways untimely good-byes echo through the years by a writer who has considered every nuance of grief.Claire Bidwell Smith -- an only child -- was just fourteen years old when both of her parents were diagnosed with cancer within months of each other. "I've already c...