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Remarkably bright creatures : a novel (book club kit - fiction) / Shelby Van Pelt.

by Van Pelt, Shelby.

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BOOK CLUB KIT FICTION VANP

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Information kit for "Remarkably bright creatures"

9780063204157 (hc)

9780063204164 (trade pbk)

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Book club kit : Remarkably bright creatures : a novel

Bookclub kit : Remarkably bright creatures : a novel

10 copies, 360 p. ; 24 cm.

Holds can be placed via the Request Form on our website. Please include your library card number, the date you would like to pick up the kit, the branch location, and list several titles for each date, in case your first pick is not available.

Ideal for your Book Club or Reading Group. This kit includes a nylon Halifax Public Libraries bag with 10 copies of Shelby Van Pelt's "Remarkably bright creatures", along with author and title information, and a list of discussion questions. The kit is available to borrow for 6 weeks.

"For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus. After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors -- until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late. Shelby Van Pelt's debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible."--Publisher.

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