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Wonderful Wednesday Book Discussion Wednesday, August 5, 2020 12 noon
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Titles Shared at July virtual discussion...
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The last equation of Isaac Severy : a novel in clues
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Nova Jacobs
Receiving a cryptic letter from her famous mathematician grandfather just before his suicide, adopted granddaughter Hazel, the owner of a struggling bookstore in Seattle, is charged with tracking down and protecting a dangerous equation before dangerous enemies can exploit it. A first novel.
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Rodham : a novel
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Curtis Sittenfeld
A novel of what-might-have-been follows Hillary Rodham as she takes a different path, blazing her own trail — one that unfolds in public as well as in private — and one that crosses paths again and again with Bill Clinton.
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The daughter of time
by
Josephine Tey
A hospitalized English policeman reconstructs historical evidence concerning Richard III's role in the murder of Edward IV's two sons
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Coming to terms
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William Safire
A collection of the Pulitzer prize-winning writer's "On Language" columns delineates the difference between "misinformation" and "disinformation," spoofs cliches, and romps through the English language
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The Coffin Trail
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Martin Edwards
Purchasing Tarn Cottage in a remote village in England's Lake District, Oxford historian Daniel Kind and his lover Miranda find the evil of the past intruding when memories of a ritualistic murder, the death of the alleged killer--who once lived in Tarn Cottage--and DCI Hannah Scarlet's investigation into the cold case threaten to reveal dangerous old secrets. Reprint.
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A little history of the world
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E. H. Gombrich
A classic historical text is now available in an illustrated edition, with 200 illustrations in full color, new maps, a revised preface and a new index.
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The beetle
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Richard Marsh
"First published in 1897, Richard Marsh's classic work of gothic horror, The Beetle, opens with Robert Holt, an out-of-work clerk seeking shelter in an abandoned house. He comes face to face with a fantastical creature with supernatural and hypnotic powers; a creature who can transform at will between its human and beetle forms and who wrecks havoc when he preys on young middle-class Britons. Featuring an introduction by bestselling author Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, the Haunted Library Horror Classics editionof The Beetle is a tale of revenge that takes the reader on a dark journey, one that explores the crisis of late imperial England through a fantastical and horrific lens"
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