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Book of the Week: ROSA PARKS: MY STORY by Rosa Parks and Jim Haskins
Detroit and Montgomery; busing and boycotts; Mother of a Movement.
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November 2019 Book Recommendations
Benjamin Franklin’s POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK; wit and wisdom from America’s Leonardo; first published in 1732. Olive Ann Burns’s COLD SASSY TREE; in 1906, a Southern widower of three weeks elopes with...
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Book of the Week: POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK by Benjamin Franklin
Wit and wisdom from America’s Leonardo; first published in 1732.
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Book of the Week: COLD SASSY TREE by Olive Ann Burns
In 1906, a Southern widower of three weeks elopes with a woman half his age, and rattles the town.
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Book of the Week: CARRIE AND ME by Carol Burnett
The actress’s daughter triumphs over drug addiction, emerges into a reputable performer/playwright, and–then–dies of lung cancer at 38.
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Book of the Week: THE STEEP & THORNY WAY by Cat Winters
A re-interpretation of Hamlet that incorporates the power of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Oregon.
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December 2019 Book Recommendations
Brandon Webb’s THE MAKING OF A NAVY SEAL: MY STORY OF SURVIVING THE TOUGHEST CHALLENGE AND TRAINING THE BEST; from adolescent diver to SEAL sniper. Ann Beattie’s MRS. NIXON: A NOVELIST IMAGINES A...
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Book of the Week: THE MAKING OF A NAVY SEAL by Brandon Webb
From adolescent diver to SEAL sniper.
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Book of the Week: MRS. NIXON: A NOVELIST IMAGINES A LIFE by Ann Beattie
The elusive first lady, and how she might have lived.
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Book of the Week: LET’S JUST SAY IT WASN’T PRETTY by Diane Keaton
How the actress got to a comfortable self-image.
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Book of the Week: NEARING 90 AND OTHER COMEDIES OF LATE LIFE by Judith Viorst
A poet’s sobering look at mortality.
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Book of the Week: NINE PERFECT STRANGERS by Liane Moriarity
A tranquil 10-day spa visit turns into terror.
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January 2020 Book Recommendations
May Sarton’s THE EDUCATION OF HARRIET HATFIELD: A NOVEL; a sixty-year-old bookshop owner is threatened for being a lesbian. Anne Tyler’s A PATCHWORK PLANET; a young man with a criminal past tries...
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Book of the Week: THE EDUCATION OF HARRIET HATFIELD by May Sarton
A sixty-year-old bookshop owner is threatened for being a lesbian.
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Book of the Week: A PATCHWORK PLANET by Anne Tyler
A young man with a criminal past tries to make amends.
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Book of the Week: MY STROKE OF LUCK by Kirk Douglas
The actor’s serious 2003 stroke unexpectedly improves his life.
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Book of the Week: BEN-GURION: BUILDER OF ISRAEL by Robert St. John
A young adult biography about the “Father of Israel”, written by a reporter who traveled to nearly every continent.
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February 2020 Book Recommendations
Penelope Lively’s DANCING FISH AND AMMONITES: A MEMOIR; from boarding school in Cairo, marriage, and motherhood; to literary success, fame, and–Dame. Joshua Wolf Shenk’s LINCOLN’S MELANCHOLY: HOW...
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Book of the Week: DANCING FISH AND AMMONITES by Penelope Lively
From boarding school in Cairo, marriage, and motherhood; to literary success, fame, and a Queen’s Dame.
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Book of the Week: LINCOLN’S MELANCHOLY by Joshua Wolf Shenk
An examination of how “Honest Abe” transformed his chronic inner turmoil into humor, which helped save the Union.
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