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Club Read meets the last Tuesday of the month at 10 a.m. in the Taylor Auditorium.
January: Carry Me by Peter Behrens
February: Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout
March: Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War by Helen Thorpe
April: The Library Book by Susan Orlean
May: Thinking in Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin
June: A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
July: Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver
August: Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World by Richard Rhodes
September: Chances Are… by Richard Russo
October: The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
November: Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
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Carry Me: A Novel
Peter Behrens - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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A devastating novel of war, love, and escape from the award-winning author of The Law of Dreams and The O'Briens During childhood summers on the sunstruck Isle of Wight in the years before the First World War, Billy is entranced by Karin, the elusive daughter of a German-Jewish... |
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Olive, Again: A Novel
Elizabeth Strout - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions."Strout managed to make me love this strange woman I'd never met, who I knew... |
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Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
Helen Thorpe - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning, "meticulously observant" (The New Yorker) , and "masterful" (BOOKLIST ) writer comes a groundbreaking account of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and how their military service affected their friendship, their personal... |
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The Library Book
Susan Orlean - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 "A constant pleasure to read ... Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book."... |
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Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
Temple Grandin - Vintage Books
Format: Book
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Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible... |
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A Short History of Myth
Karen Armstrong
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This brilliant, readable synthesis of the history of mythology and the function it serves to humanity is the launch title of the groundbreaking publishing event, The Myths . "Human beings have always been mythmakers." So begins Karen Armstrong's concise yet compe |
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Unsheltered: A Novel
BARBARA KINGSOLVER - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestsellerAn NPR pick for Best Books of 2018One of Christian Science Monitor's best fiction reads of 2018 One of Newsweek's Best Books of the yearThe New York Times bestselling author of Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, and The Poisonwood Bible and recipient of numerous literary... |
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Chances Are . . .
Richard Russo - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship.One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since... |
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The Cement Garden
McEwan, Ian
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In this tour de force of psychological unease--now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack--McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--or denying. "Possesses the suspense and ch |
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history." -- Bill Gates Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing... |
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