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Episode 15: Secrets to keeping a book club strong for years with Ruth Coleman

In this episode of Book Clubbin, Emily's fabulous, well-read mom, Ruth Coleman, comes to chat with us all about her book club! Ruth has been part of her book club for fifteen years, and she shares all their secrets to keeping a book club strong. She shares two of her best-ever book club reads, and at the end, she joins us for our current reading situations.



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3:45 Author Sharon Kay Penman
39:15 Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
41:50 The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap by Wendy Welch
47:00 What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us by Danielle Crittenden
50:00 The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebovitz
53:35 The Whistler by John Grisham
The Firm by John Grisham
The Client by John Grisham
Sycamore Row by John Grisham
The Innocent Man by John Grisham

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