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Wonderful Wednesday Book Discussion December 2018 Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We'll meet again on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019.
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Suite française : a novel
by Irène Némirovsky
Published more than sixty years following the author's death at Auschwitz, a remarkable story of life under the Nazi occupation includes two parts--"A Storm in June," set amid the chaotic 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion, and "Dolce," set in a German-occupied provincial village rife with jealousy, resentment, resistance, and collaboration. Reprint.
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Always look on the bright side of life : a sortabiography
by Eric Idle
Published to commemorate the troupe's 50th anniversary, the Monty Python founding member and creator of the Tony Award-winning Spamalot shares riotous celebrity and family anecdotes from his boarding-school childhood and landmark career in comedy
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Louisa : the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
by Louisa Thomas
An intimate portrait of the British-born wife of John Quincy Adams details her significantly different upbringing from her husband, their tempestuous marriage, their wide range of residences and her efforts to forge her own sense of self. By the author of Conscience
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Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
by J. D. Vance
Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our countrythat has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.'s grandparents were "dirt poor and in love," and moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance's grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and traumaso characteristic of their part of America
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The plot against America
by Philip Roth
In a novel of alternative history, aviation hero and isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election, negotiating a cordial accord with Adolf Hitler, accepting his conquest of Europe and anti-Semitic policies, and igniting a storm of fear for Jewish families throughout America. National Book Critics Circle Award. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 500,000 first printing.
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The fifth risk : Undoing Democracy
by Michael Lewis
Presents a narrative account of the post-2016 election chaos that took over Washington to reveal how a small number of uninformed Trump appointees are triggering devastating world consequences
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If all the seas were ink : a memoir
by Ilana Kurshan
The Harvard-educated books editor of Lilith magazine describes her journey of studying the Talmud through the principles of the vast daf yomi daily page book club, a years-long endeavor that spanned the end of her divorce, her work travels between America and Jerusalem, her remarriage and the births of her three children.
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The age of treachery : a Duncan Forrester mystery
by Gavin Scott
It is the winter of 1946, and ex-SOE agent Duncan Forrester is back at his Oxford college as a junior Fellow. But his peace is shattered when a hated colleague is found murdered. A suspect is arrested, but Forrester is not convinced of his guilt; the dead man had many enemies, and there are rumors that he was in possession of a mysterious Viking manuscript. Original.
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The Lost City of the Monkey God : a true story
by Douglas J Preston
The co-author of the FBI Agent Pendergast series presents a high-suspense account of the discovery of a lost civilization, contemporaries of the Mayans who lived deep in the Honduran jungle.
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