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Handpicked by Dorothy May 2018 |
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The only thing I like better than reading is recommending books to others for them to read! I enjoy most any type of book, but usually am drawn to crime procedurals, narrative nonfiction (especially about history), mysteries with a humorous bent, books set in Chicago or written by Chicago authors and memoirs. Come in and let's talk about books!
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Mother, May I Read These Books? |
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The book of Polly
by Kathy Hepinstall
A 10-year-old girl in a small conventional Texas community resolves to keep up with her aging, crazy-as-a-fox mother in order to keep them both alive and learn the truth about her mother's long-secret past. By the author of Sisters of Shiloh.
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Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood : a novel
by Rebecca Wells
SiddaLee has escaped her Louisiana hometown to become a theatrical director, but as she gathers mementos from the Ya-Ya Sisterhood to assist in writing a play about women's friendships, she yearns to revisit her childhood.
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This boy's life : a memoir
by Tobias Wolff
.The author chronicles the tumultuous events of his early life, discussing his parents' divorce, the nomadic wanderings with his mother that followed, and the strange and eventful process of growing up.
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Elsewhere
by Richard Russo
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls presents an upbeat personal account of his youth, his parents and the 1950s upstate New York town they struggled to escape, recounting the encroaching poverty and illness that challenged everyday life and the dreams his mother instilled that inspired his career.
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Amy and Isabelle : a novel
by Elizabeth Strout
When Amy Goodrow, a shy high school student, falls in love with her math teacher, the love affair threatens the intimate relationship between Amy and her mother, Isabelle, whose feelings are influenced by the shame of her own past.
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The exact nature of our wrongs
by Janet Peery
Gathering on a summer evening to celebrate the birthday of their ailing patriarch, the Campbell family confronts the difficult realities of an offspring's addiction problems, his mother's enabling behaviors and his siblings' conflicted views. By the National Book Award finalist author of The River Beyond the World.
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