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The Great Believers
by Rebecca Makkai
A 1980s Chicago art gallery director loses his loved ones to the AIDS epidemic until his only companion is his daughter, who, decades later, grapples with the disease's wrenching impact on their family.
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Rocket Men
by Robert Kurson
Nonfiction. Shares the lesser-known inside story of the dangerous Apollo 8 mission, focusing in particular on the lives and families of astronaut heroes Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, while illuminating the political factors that prompted America to risk lives to save the Apollo program and define the space race.
Generously donated by the Pickwickers Book Club.
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Historical Fiction. The year is 1548, and the Chinese Empire faces an imminent Mongol invasion. Fan, a talented Chinese craftsman is taken from his home and wife, so that he may labor alongside the wall’s defenders.Fan has been missing for a year when his wife, Meng, decides to do the impossible – to leave everyone and everything she knows in a daunting effort to find him. At a time when many women fear even stepping outside their homes, Meng disguises herself as a man and begins a perilous journey. Generously donated by the Pagewiners Book Club.
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Bettyville
by George Hodgman
A veteran magazine and book editor returns to his hometown of Paris, Missouri, to take care of his aging mother, Betty, a strong-willed woman who speaks her mind and has never really accepted the fact that her son is gay.
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Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
by Roz Chast
A graphic memoir by a long-time New Yorker cartoonist celebrates the final years of her aging parents' lives through four-color cartoons, family photos and documents that reflect the artist's struggles with caregiver challenges.
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When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
A young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis attempts to answer the question: What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated.
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