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Tuesday Morning Book Club 2023-2024
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About the Group A general book discussion focusing on a variety of fiction and nonfiction titles selected in advance (over the summer) by the group. Meeting Date and Location - Tuesday mornings at 10:30 am
- Meets 8 times/year (roughly every 6 weeks) from September through early August
- Upper Level Conference Room of the library (unless otherwise noted).
- RSVP requested but drop-ins are welcome.
- Please check the library's Events Calendar for specific information and to RSVP.
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The Marriage Portrait
by Maggie O'Farrell
(FICTION) This historical novel follows a young woman who is married off at 15 amid the complex world of 16th-century Italian city-states. O’Farrell bases her heroine, Lucrezia de’ Medici, on a real-life figure depicted in Robert Browning’s poem “My Last Duchess,” who was murdered by her husband.
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The Daughters of Yalta : The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
by Catherine Grace Katz
(NONFICTION) Katz profiles the comings, goings, and influences of "the Daughters of Yalta"—Kathleen Harriman, a war correspondent and daughter to U.S. Ambassador to Russia Averell Harriman; actress-turned-RAF officer Sarah Churchill; and secret-keeping Anna Roosevelt. They had joined their fathers at the Yalta Conference toward the end of World War II.
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The One-in-a-Million Boy
by Monica Wood
(FICTION) This is an incandescent story of a 104-year-old woman and the sweet, strange young boy assigned to help her around the house and a friendship that touches each member of the boy's unmoored family.
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Trust
by Hernâan Dâiaz
(FICTION) Diaz uses a multilayered narrative to investigate money and power, truth and perception, and early 20th-century U.S. history. In 1920s New York, Wall Street tycoon Benjamin Rask and his wife, Helen, of offbeat aristocratic origins, are the crème of society's crème. They're also the protagonists of the novel Bonds, published in 1938 and on everyone's reading list. But the novel doesn't reveal the whole truth about the characters, who here engage with other accounts to share the big picture. (Library Journal, December 2021)
Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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The Years
by Annie Ernaux
(MEMOIR) Available in English for the first time, The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present--even projections into the future--photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from six decades of diaries. (Baker and Taylor)
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We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
by Tsering Yangzom Lama
(FICTION) Starting in 1960, Lama interweaves the lives of four characters: Lhamo and her younger sister Tenkyi, whose parents are killed during their flight from Tibet to Nepal, where they resettle in a village for refugees; Lhamo’s daughter Dolma; and Samphel, Lhamo’s childhood love, whom she meets in Nepal. Lama also explores the influence of a ku—an ancient statue that Samphel’s uncle brings into Lhamo’s village—on each of their lives.
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Horse
by Geraldine Brooks
(FICTION) An enslaved groom named Jarrett leads the bay foal he's bonded with to record-shattering racing victories across the 1850s South. During the Civil War, the two meet up with an itinerant artist who's won fame with his many paintings of the stunning racehorse. But it's not until 2019 that a Nigerian-American art historian uncovers the true story of the horse and groom and links up with a Smithsonian scientist who's studying the horse's bones to learn the secret of its extraordinary endurance. Based on the true story of a racehorse named Lexington.
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
by Jenny Odell
(NONFICTION) A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention--and our personal information--that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world. Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance.
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Need a Copy of the Book? - Click on any of the titles (or book covers) above to check availability in our catalog.
- Check mrspl.ovedrive.com to see if eBook or eAudiobook copies are available.
- Special book group copies for the next month's discussion are also on a first come, first serve basis at each discussion.
Staff Contacts for This Book Club - Catherine Wilson: email | 703-248-5237 (TTY 711)
- Lorri Culhane: email | 703-248-5186 (TTY 711)
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Mary Riley Styles Public Library
120 N. Virginia Ave, Falls Church, Virginia 22046 703-248-5030 (TTY 711) www.mrspl.org
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