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Meets 2nd Tuesdays, 12:00-1:00 Main Library study room C (2nd floor) NEW MEMBERS ALWAYS WELCOME
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FEBRUARY 2019 SELECTION meeting date: February 11th by Fredrik Backman
In a forgotten town fractured by scandal, an amateur hockey team might just be able to change everything.
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MARCH 2019 SELECTION meeting date: March 12th by Helen Macdonald
An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.
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APRIL 2019 SELECTION meeting date: April 9th by Tara Westover
Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn an acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
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MAY 2019 SELECTION meeting date: May 14th by David Sedaris
When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself.
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JUNE 2019 SELECTION meeting date: June 11th by Madeline Miller
Circe, daughter of the sun god Helios, mightiest of the Titans, was a peculiar child who had few of the gifts the demigods enjoyed, and she was despised by her parents and numerous sisters for her deficits. What she lacked in godlike ability, though, she compensated for with a gift for herbology and witchcraft.
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JULY 2019 SELECTION meeting date: July 19th The Alice Network by Kate QuinnIn 1947, pregnant Charlie St. Clair, an American college girl banished from her family, arrives in London to find out what happened to her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, and meets a former spy who, torn apart by betrayal, agrees to help her on her mission. Original. 100,000 first printing.
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AUGUST 2019 SELECTION meeting date: August 13th by Michelle Obama
An intimate and uplifting memoir by the former First Lady chronicles the experiences that have shaped her remarkable life, from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago through her setbacks and achievements in the White House.
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SEPTEMBER 2019 SELECTION meeting date: September 10th by Susan Orlean
Reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution—our libraries."
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OCTOBER 2019 SELECTIONmeeting date: November 12th Hillbilly Elegy : a Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. VanceShares the poignant story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle-class life and the collective demons of the past. also available in alternate format(s)
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NOVEMBER 2019 SELECTION meeting date: October 8th by Maria Semple
When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the earth to find her.
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DECEMBER 2019 SELECTIONmeeting date: December 10th Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
Forced to confront the realities of life in the 21st century when he falls in love with widowed Pakistani descendant Mrs. Ali, a retired Major Pettigrew finds the relationship challenged by local prejudices that view Mrs. Ali, a Cambridge native, as a perpetual foreigner.
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