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The daring ladies of Lowell
by Kate Alcott
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, January 21, 2020.
Moving to the mill city of Lowell in 1832 to escape farm life, young Alice is disillusioned by the local factory's harsh working conditions and struggles to advocate on their behalf while recklessly falling in love with the mill owner's son, a situation that is complicated by a murder and sensational trial.
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Silas Marner
by George Eliot
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, February 18.
Disappointed in friendship and love, and embittered by a false accusation, weaver Silas Marner retreats from the world with his loom, but soon finds his monastic existence forever changed by the arrival of an orphaned girl, whom he takes in and raises as his own daughter. .
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The lager queen of Minnesota
by J. Ryan Stradal
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, March 17.
A talented baker running a business out of her nursing home reconnects with her master brewer sister at the same time her pregnant granddaughter launches an IPA brewpub. By the award-winning author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest
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Educated : a memoir
by Tara Westover
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, April 21.
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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Blue collars
by Catherine McLaughlin
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, May 19.
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Deep South : four seasons on back roads
by Paul Theroux
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, June 16.
The acclaimed author of Ghost Train to the Eastern Star explores the paradoxes and culture of America's deep south, describing his four-season rural travels to its churches, eateries, farms, gun shows and offices.
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The chaperone
by Laura Moriarty
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, July 16.
Accompanying a future famous actress from her Wichita home to New York, chaperone Cora Carlisle shares a life-changing five-week period with her ambitious teenage charge during which she discovers the promise of the 20th century and her own purpose in life.
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People of the book : a novel
by Geraldine Brooks
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, September 15.
Offered a coveted job to analyze and conserve a priceless Sarajevo Haggadah, Australian rare-book expert Hanna Heath discovers a series of tiny artifacts in the volume's ancient binding that reveal its historically significant origins. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March.
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The sweetness at the bottom of the pie : a Flavia de Luce mystery
by C. Alan Bradley
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, October 20.
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, begins her adventure when a dead bird is found on the doorstep of her family's mansion in the summer of 1950, thus propelling her into a mystery that involves an investigation into a man's murder where her father is the main suspect. .
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All creatures great and small
by James Herriot
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, November 17.
Recalls the early career of James Herriot, a country veterinary surgeon in Yorkshire, describing the joys and trials of working with his unique clientele
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Lillian Boxfish takes a walk
by Kathleen Rooney
We will discuss this book on Tuesday, December 15.
Embarking on a walk across the unsafe landscape of Manhattan on New Year's Eve in 1984, 85-year-old Lillian Boxfish recalls her long and eventful life, which included a brief reign as the highest-paid advertising woman in America, whose career was cut short by marriage and loss.
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