The Cherry Cola Book Club

Name: The Cherry Cola Book Club
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Ashton Lee
ISBN: 9781470842949

Author: Ashton Lee

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Unabridged: 7 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 03/26/2013

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Set in a small town in Mississippi,The Cherry Cola Book Clubis the touching and sometimes hilarious story of a young, upbeat librarian who has been given an ultimatum to increase the librarys circulation dramaticallyor risk having to close its doors. Maura doesnt just start a book club; she gets involved in unique and unexpected ways with her library patrons. She entertains and advises them, she has potluck dinners, and life in the town begins to imitate art. The patrons begin to relate their own lives to the work of writers like Margaret Mitchell and Harper Lee. In moving and personal ways, Maura helps them deal with such subjects as long-lost love and a brush with death, offering advice on nearly everythingincluding romance. No topic is off limits. Along the way, Maura raises the profile of the librarybut will it be enough?

About Ashton Lee

Ashton Lee was born in historic Natchez, Mississippi, into a large, extended Southern family which gave him much fodder for his fiction later in life. His father, who wrote under the pen name of R. Keene Lee after WWII, was an editor and writer in New York of what is now called pulp fiction. As a result, Ashton inherited a love of reading and writing early on and did all the things aspiring authors are supposed to do, including majoring in English when he attended the University of the South, affectionately known as Sewanee. Ashton lives in Oxford, MS.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Watchingthewords

I really didn’t like this book. I really wanted to – it’s the story of a small town librarian, Maura Beth, who has been told by the city council that she has until the end of the year to show the worth of her library or it will be closed. There is a cast of small town characters – a restaurant owner......more

Goodreads review by Kristin

Honestly I wanted to give this 1 star, but I can't be that mean to any book that supports libraries. The dialogue was horribly fake, the characters flat... and even I (a librarian) was a having a hard time getting behind their goal of saving the library because nobody was using it in the first place......more

Goodreads review by Carla

Lovers of small town Southern novels full of quirky characters, this one's for you. When a city councilman decides to close the shabby, under used local library in favor of building an industrial park, a few colorful folks rally around the young librarian to save the institution. Their solution: a......more