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Book: Twice Bitten
Author: Lynsay Sands
Pages: 384
Date Read: 11/1
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: MC's have a big family dinner.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 3
Theme week: (Family Dinners)Book:Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up--and What We Make When We Make Dinner
Author:Liz Hauck
Pages: 400
Date Read: 11/1/2021
Rating: 4
Justification: Liz Hauck and boys in a group home prepared dinners once a week for three years.
Book Points:3
Team Total points: 6
Theme week: Family DinnersBook: Framley Parsonage
Author: Anthony Trollope
Pages: 573
Date Read: 1 Nov
Rating: 3 Stars
Justification: there are several family dinners taking place
Book Points: 5
Team Total points:11
Theme week: Family DinnersBook: A Match Made for Thanksgiving
Author: Jackie Lau
Pages: 101
Date Read: 1 Nov
Rating: 2 Stars
Justification: there is a Thanksgiving family dinner
Book Points: 1
Team Total points:12
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Book: Shadowfell
Author: Juliet Marillier
Pages: 410
Date Read: 11/2
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: MC has dinner with saviour. They are family.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 15
Theme week: Family DinnersBook: Christmas, Criminals, and Campers
Author: Tonya Kappes
Pages: 264
Date read: 11/2
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: throughout the book they are planning a huge Christmas dinner for the families of the town
Points: 1
Team Points: 16
Completion Post:Theme week: Family Dinner
Author: Gregg Zoroya
Pages: 400 pages
Date Read: 11/2/21
Rating: 3
Justification: “...family gathering around the table...” page 253
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 19
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Book:Season of Love
Author:Debbie Macomber
Pages:384
Date Read: 11/3/21
Rating:3
Justification: Jo Marie has Thanksgiving dinner with her family
Book Points: 3
Team Total points:22
Completion Post: Theme week: Family Dinners
Author: Michael Buckley
Pages: 384
Date Read: 11/3/21
Rating: 3
Justification: About family and tents on cover for native gathering
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 25
Completion PostTheme week: Family Dinners
Book: Gunmetal Magic
Author: Ilona Andrews
Pages: 434
Date Read: 11/3/21
Rating: 4
Justification: several times in the book family members sit down for meals together.
Book points: 3
Team Total points: 28
Completion Post Theme week: Family Dinners
Book: Gunmetal Magic
Author: Ilona Andrews
Pages: 434
Date Read: 11/2/21
Rating: 4
Justification: See above
Book points: 3
Team Total points: 31
Theme week: (Family Dinners)Book: Deadly Thanksgiving: A Senior Sleuth Cozy Mystery - Book 2
Author: Maureen Fisher
Pages: 303
Date Read: 11/3/2021
Rating: no rating
Justification: Cozy mystery set in Canada, a Thanksgiving weekend, culminating in a fabulous and rustic Thanksgiving dinner
Book Points:3
Team Total points: 34
Theme week: Family DinnersBook: A Court of Mist and Fury
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Pages: 626
Read: 11/3
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: pg 242 — Rhys, Feyre and his family (2 half brothers and adopted friends as family) say “remind me to have family dinners more often”
Book Points: 5
Total team points: 39
Theme week: family dinnersBook: A Bad Day for Sunshine
Author: Darynda Jones
Pages: 400
Read: 11/4
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: there are numerous family dinners throughout with Sunshine, her parents and her daughter Auri
Book points: 3
Team points: 42
Completion Post:Theme week: Family Dinners
Author: Michael Brodkorb
Pages: 336
Date Read: 11/5/21
Rating:3
Justification: Real life family drama as are a lot of family dinners
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 45
Theme week: Family Dinners Book: One Night in Boukos
Author: A.J. Demas
Pages: 233
Date Read: 11/1/21
Rating:4
Justification: One of the MC makes food and they all eat together at home during the night of the festival
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 46
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Book: Dance: Cinderella Retold
Author: Demelza Carlton
Pages: 234
Date Read: 11/5
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Royal dinner
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 47
Theme week: Family DinnersBook:
Author: Anthony Trollope
Pages: 557
Date Read: 6 Nov
Rating: 3 Stars
Justification: there are several family dinners taking place
Book Points: 5
Team Total points:52
Completion— Family dinnersBook: Apples Never Fall
Author: Liane Moriarty
Pages: 467
Date: 11/6
Rating 4 ⭐️
Justification: the book is about a family; there are family dinner scenes throughout
Book points: 3
Team points: 55
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Book: Blood Brothers
Author: Nora Roberts
Pages: 328
Date Read: 11/7
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Friends have dinner together
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 58
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Book: Snapped
Author: Laura Griffin
Pages: 401
Date Read: 11/7
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Friends have dinner regularly
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 61
Completion Post:Theme week: Native American
Author: Tess Gerritsen
Pages: 435
Date Read: 11/8/21
Rating:4
Justification: Characters have to go native to survive and American in text on page 422
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 64
Theme Week: Family DinnerBook: Hardpressed
Author: Meredith Wild
Pages: 320
Date Read: 11/6
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Eve has dinner with Blake's family
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 64
Theme Week: Family DinnerBook: Part-Time Monster Hunter
Author: Nicholas Woode-Smith
Pages: 303
Date Read: 11/6
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Friends have meals regularly
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 67
Theme Week: Family DinnerBook: An Echo of Things to Come
Author: James Islington
Pages: 751
Date Read: 11/6
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: Friends have dinner regularly & Weir has some formal dinners with his family
Book Points: 7
Team Total points: 74
Completion Post:Theme week: Native American
Book: The Only Good Indians
Author: Stephen Graham Jones
Pages: 357
Date Read: 11/8/21
Rating: 3
Justification: MCs and author are Blackfeet and some chars are Crow
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 77
Theme week: (example: Native Americans/First Nation)Book: Moon of the Crusted Snow
Author:Waubgeshig Rice
Pages: 163
Date Read: 11/8/2021
Rating:3
Justification: Main characters are First Nation
Book Points:1
Team Total points: 78
Completion Post:Theme week: Native American
Author: R.F. Kuang
Pages: 545
Date Read: 11/9/21
Rating: 3
Justification: Bow and arrow on cover
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 83
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Completion Post:Theme week: Native American
Author: A Snake Falls to Earth
Pages: 356
Date Read: 11/10/21
Rating: 5
Justification: MCs and author are Lipan Apahce
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 89
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Book: The Only Good Indians
Author: Stephen Graham Jones
Pages: 336
Date Read: 11/10
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: The MC are First Nation.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 92
Theme Week: Native AmericanBook: Becoming
Author: Michelle Obama
Pages: 599
Date Read: 11/13
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: Native American in text in the preface
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 97
Theme Week: Native AmericanBook:Sacajawea
Author: Anna Lee Waldo
Pages: 1424
Date Read: 11/13
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Sacajawea was the Indian guide to Lewis and Clark
Book Points: 10
Team Total points: 107
Completion Post:Theme week: Native American
Book:
Author: Jena Burges/Dennis Burges
Pages: 279
Date Read: 11/13/21
Rating: 4
Justification: MC is Navajo
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 108
Completion Post: Theme week: Native American (Indigenous)
Book: The Hands of the Emperor
Author: Victoria Goddard
Pages: 969
Date Read: 11/14/21
Rating: 4
Justification: MC's secretary is from an indigenous island tribe
Book Points: 10
Team Total points: 118
Theme week: PumpkinBook:
Author: Melanie Lageschulte
Pages: 386
Date Read: 15 Nov
Rating: 3 Stars
Justification: Pumpkin on cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points:121
Theme week: Pumpkin 
Author: Kwei Quartey
Pages: 421
Date Read: 15 Nov
Rating: 3 Stars
Justification: Orange cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points:124
Theme week: PumpkinTitle: The Cottage on Pumpkin and Vine
Author: Kate Angell
Pages: 320
Date Read: 11/16
Rating: 1 star (awful)
Justification: The Title
Book Points: 3
Team Total points:127
Completion Post:Theme Week: Pumpkins
Author: Ann Rule
Pages: 352
Date Read: 11/17/21
Rating: 3
Justification: Cover spooky lit like a pumpkin
Book Points: 3
Total Team Points: 130
Theme week: PumpkinsBook:
Author: Beth Labonte
Pages: 194
Date Read: 5 Nov
Rating: 2,5 Stars
Justification: Pumpkin in title
Book Points: 1
Team Total points:131
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Book:Death of a Pumpkin Carver
Author:Lee Hollis
Pages: 282
Date Read: 11/17/21
Rating:3
Justification: pumpkins on cover
Book Points: 1
Team Total points:132
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Book: The Halloween Haunting
Author: Kathi Daley
Pages: 217
Date Read: 11/17
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Jack-O Lantern on the cover
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 133
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Book: The Pagan Stone
Author: Nora Roberts
Pages: 217
Date Read: 11/16
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: a character has a little garden with pumpkins
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 136
Theme Week: PumpkinBook: Pumpkins in Paradise
Author: Kathi Daley
Pages: 286
Date Read: 11/17
Rating: 3
Justification: The town in the book has a pumpkin festival.
Book points: 1
Team Total Points: 137
Completion Post:Theme week: Pumpkins
Book:
Author: Agatha Christie
Pages: 320
Date Read: 11/19/21
Rating: 3
Justification: Pumpkin on cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 140
Theme week: PumpkinsBook: The Pumpkin Thief
Author: Melanie Jackson
Pages: 110
Date Read: 11/18/21
Rating: 3
Justification: Main character is on the trail of a pumpkin thief
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 141
Theme week: PumpkinsBook Gear, Grills, & Guns
Author: Tonya Kappes
Pages: 200
Read: 11/19
Rating 3 ⭐️
Justification: pumpkins on cover
Book points: 1
Team points: 142
Theme week: pumpkinsBook The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
Author: Garth Nix
Read: 11/19
Pages: 416
Rating: 3⭐️
Justification: pumpkin in text pg 276 “with a partially decayed pumpkin for a head”
Book points: 3
Team points: 145
Theme: pumpkinsBook: A Court of Wings and Ruin
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Read 11/20
Pages 705
Rating 4 1/2⭐️
Justification: pumpkin in text, pg 577 “beneath them, pumpkin and ivory fish lazily swam about”
Book points: 7
Team points: 152
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Nov 8-14 Native Americans (Native, Indigenous or First Nation)
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