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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell 368 pages $$$ 1 in Library 4.26
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn 302 pages $$ 1 in Library 4.26
(F) Before We Were Yours: A Novel by Lisa Wingate 352 pages $ 7 in Library 4.37
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell 368 pages $$$ 1 in Library 4.26
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn 302 pages $$ 1 in Library 4.26
(F) Before We Were Yours: A Novel by Lisa Wingate 352 pages $ 7 in Library 4.37
(F) The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah 435 pages $ 14 in library 4.33
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing 336 pages $$ 1 in Library 3.90
(F) On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong 246 pages $$$$ 5 in Library 4.10
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich 247 pages $$ 2 in Library 4.53
Dead Wake, subtitle The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
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DeleteBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
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ReplyDeleteI don't know what the (F) signifies, but I'd love to know who suggested the rejected titles by Nabokov, Emile Zola, Oliver Sacks and Edith Wharton. That's the book group I'd like to join.
ReplyDelete(F) = Fiction. Books are suggested by the membership and voted on. The books noted in the above comment may have been suggested by any number of people over the 20+ years this group has been in existence. One of the downsides of democracy is that one's preferred outcome isn't always the result.
DeleteOther titles by Nabokov (2) and Zola (2) have been suggested and read. Equally worthy titles by: (among many others) Dickens, Salinger, Hemingway, Faulkner, Galbraith, Twain, Remarque, Trevor, Stegner, Stoppard, Remarque, McPhee, Waugh, Heller, Borges, Orwell, Joyce, Hardy, Flaubert, Balzac, etc., etc., etc. have been voted on and read.
Also Woolf, Cather, Fuentes, Greene, Maugham, Stendhal, Munro, Singer, Saramago, Tuchman, Camus, Dos Passos, Thackeray, Eliot, Steinbeck, Graves, Forster, Turgenev, Sagan, Vidal. Nabokov actually (3) and Remarque listed twice should have been Remarque (2)
Delete1984 by George Orwell
ReplyDeleteLolita by Valdimir Nabokov
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DeleteThe Masterpiece by Emile Zola
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DeleteBefore We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
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ReplyDeleteWhere the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
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"The Sixth Extinction " by Elizabeth Kolbert
"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" Dee Brown
Where the Crawdads Sing
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ReplyDeleteAccording to the co-CEO, chairman, and co-founder of the tech giant Marc Benioff, who's out with a new book called "Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change," it is a story of shareholders and stakeholders, including the homeless in San Francisco.Oct 16, 2019
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