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BELOW: CLICK ON THE NAME OF THE BOOK FOR A MAMs Book Club Discussion Guide.
Nancy Flinchbaugh’s novels feature the MAMs… The Magnificent and Marvelous Book Club. They made their debut in Nancy’s first novel, Revelation in the Cave (Spiritual Seedlings, 2012), and also star in the sequels, Revelation at the Labyrinth (eLectio Publishing, 2017) and Revelation in the Roots: Emerald Isle (All Things That Matter Press, 2022). Currently she’s working on a 4th in the series, Revelation on the Sea Island. Stay tuned!
After Nancy’s first book, one of her friends told her, “I want to be in a group like the MAMs.” And so, Nancy started a MAMs Book Club Springfield, which meets once a month at Nancy’s house. Every time they read a book, Nancy creates a study guide for their discussion, and for other book clubs as well. So, if you’re looking for a good read, or you need a study guide for your own book club, check out this page! Each study guide includes comments by Nancy and the fictitious MAMs, along with questions for discussion.
Here are the books, the MAMs Book Club Springfield has read, since they began back in 2012!
All the Way Home
The Happiness Project
Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth
Funny in Farsi
Wild
The Road
Founding Mothers
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff
Flight Behavior
Under the Banner of Heaven
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
The Fault in our Stars
The Stop
The Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency
The Rosie Project
Gilead
The Night Circus
Those Who Wish Me Dead
The Language of Flowers
Keeping Faith
Wash
The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up
The Grand Sophy
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
Anam Cara: The Book of Celtic Wisdom
The Year of Living Biblically
Just Mercy
Glitter and Glue
Emily Alone
Gaining Ground
Virion
Patriotism, Peace and Vietnam
Wild Raspberries
The Paris Secret
Appalachian Daughter
The 13th Gift
Of Beards and Men
The Invention of Wings
All Dressed in White
The Handmaid’s Tale
Crazy Rich Asians
Driving Miss Norma
Playing for Pizza
Fish Tank: A Novel for our Times
The Warmth of Other Suns
Vacationland
Exit West
The Buddha in the Attic
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
Bubbles Unbound
Facials Can Be Fatal
Still Life
The Ninth Hour
The Banker’s Wife
The Hate U Give
Letters from the Earth
Where the Crawdads Sing
Educated: A Memoir
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking
Something Permanent
Remarkable Creatures
The Secrets We Kept
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
The Blue Diary
The Little Paris Bookshop
The Library at the Edge of the World
Little Fires Everywhere
Awakening: A Contemplative Primer on Learning to Sit
The Queen’s Secret
The Jetsetters
Me and White Supremacy
Animal Dreams
Her Last Flight
The Path of the Holy Fool
The Water Dancer
Hillbilly Elegy
Nature’s Best Hope
Practical Magic
House Lessons: Renovating a Life
The Crow Trap
The World We Knew
Unsheltered
The Scent Keeper
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
The Thursday Night Murder Club
TIME OUT!
Revelation in the Roots: Emerald Isle
Knight’s Fall
American Queen
One More Day
Active Hope
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
The Man Who Died Twice
The Wright Brothers
Skipping Christmas
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Barn Burner
Lessons in Chemistry
My Grandmother’s Hands
Mindful of Race
