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Just The Facts Nonfiction Book Group 2017-2018 list
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Blood at the root : a racial cleansing in America
by Patrick Phillips
Due to heavy demand for "Hillbilly Elegy", we will be swapping that book with this one. We will discuss this book on Thursday, August 17 at 6:30 PM. A harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America chronicles acts of racial cleansing in early 20th-century Forsyth County, Georgia, where the murder of a young girl led to mob lynchings, acts of terror against black workers and violent protests by night riders who would enforce whites-only citizenship.
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Just kids
by Patti Smith
We will be discussing this book on Thursday, September 21 at 6:30 PM.
An artist and musician recounts her romance, lifetime friendship and shared love of art with Robert Mapplethorpe, in an illustrated memoir that includes a colorful cast of characters, including Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, William Burroughs and more. 100,000 first printing.
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The underground girls of Kabul : in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan
by Jenny Nordberg
We will be discussing this book on Thursday, November 16 at 6:30 PM.
An award-winning foreign correspondent who contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times series reveals the secret Afghan custom of disguising girls as boys to improve their prospects, discussing its political and social significance as well as the experiences of its practitioners. 30,000 first printing.
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H is for hawk
by Helen Macdonald
We will be discussing this book on Thursday, December 21 at 6:30 PM.
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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Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI
by David Grann
We will be discussing this book on Thursday, March 15 at 6:30 PM.
The best-selling author of The Lost City of Z presents a true account of the early 20th-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
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Lab girl
by Hope Jahren
We will be discussing this book on Thursday, May 17 at 6:30 PM.
A debut memoir by an award-winning paleobiologist traces her childhood in her father's laboratory, her longtime relationship with a brilliant but wounded colleague and the remarkable discoveries they have made both in the lab and during extensive field research assignments.
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