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Celebrity Book Clubs Andrew Luck Book Club Recommendations for "Veteran" Readers
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Beloved : a novel
by Toni Morrison
Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is haunted persistently by the ghost of the dead baby girl whom she sacrificed, in a new edition of the Nobel Laureate's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Available on eReadIllinois, Overdrive, and in print
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Gloryland : a novel
by Shelton Johnson
A fictional memoir follows Elijah Yancy, who joins the U.S. Cavalry's "buffalo soldiers" and struggles with having to persecute other people of color, until he is stationed in Yosemite National Park, where he at last finds true freedom.
Available on eReadIllinois
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The color of water : a Black man's tribute to his white mother
by James McBride
A young African-American man describes growing up in an all-black Brooklyn housing project, one of twelve children of a white mother and black father, and discusses his mother's contributions to his life and coming to terms with his confusion over his own identity.
Available on Overdrive and in print
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The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
Argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race.
Available on eReadIllinois, Overdrive, and in print
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The overstory : a novel
by Richard Powers
An impassioned novel of activism is comprised of interlocking fables about nine strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest. A New York Times best-seller.
Available on eReadIllinois, Overdrive, and in print
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The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance
by Edmund De Waal
Traces the parallel stories of 19th-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 264 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.
Available on Overdrive
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Barbarian days : a surfing life
by William Finnegan
Describes the author's experiences as a lifelong surfer, from his early years in Honolulu through his culturally sophisticated pursuits of perfect waves in some of the world's most exotic locales.
Available in print
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Legends of the fall
by Jim Harrison
A disgruntled corporate functionary, three brothers and their different fates, and an American pilot struggling with a Mexican crime lord articulate Harrison's vision of twentieth-century man in this trilogy of short novels.
Available on Overdrive
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Good omens : the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch
by Neil Gaiman
The world is going to end next Saturday, but there are a few problems--the Antichrist has been misplaced, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles, and the representatives from heaven and hell decide that they like the human race.
Available on eReadIllinois, Overdrive, and in print
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