Monday, February 3, 2020

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May 12, 2020

(F) The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin 352 pages $$ 5 in Library 3.72


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Previously Read in the Book Group

1906: A Novel by James Dalessandro  July 2013
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry  March 2004
A Gentleman In Moscow by Amor Towles  November Henr   
A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny  January 2018
A Hobbit, A Wardrobe, And A Great War: How J.R.R Tolkien And C.S. Lewis Redisclovered Faith by Joseph Loconte  July 2017
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman  October 2016 
A Piece Of The World by Christina Bake Kline  December 2017
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr  September 2015 
All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy  July 2001
All They Will Call You by Tim Hernandez  January 2019
Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier And Clay by Michael Chabon  January 2002 
And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini  September 2014 
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie  December 2018 
Angle Of Repose by Wallace Stegner  June 2000
Art Of Fielding by Chad Harback  February 2013
Atonement by Ian McEwan  May 2007 
Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines  May 2000 
Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai  March 2006
Becoming by Michelle Obama  October Henr 
Behind The Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo  August 2013
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande  August 2015
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett  May 2003
Big Short by Michael Lewis  October 2011
Blood Hollow by William Kent Krueger  February 2007
Born To Run by Christopher McDougall  July 2016
Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner  March 2000
California Uncovered by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni  February 2009
Chasing The Scream: The First And Last Days Of The War On Drugs by Johan Hari  March 2017 
Chatham School Affair by Thomas Cook  December 2009 
Cider House Rules by John Irving  August 2003
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier  September 2002
Color Of Water by James McBride  December 2002 
Confederates In The Attic by Tony Horwitz  August 2004
Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres  June 2001
Corporate Warriors by P. W. Singer  October 2004
Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston  August 2000     
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin  September 2011
Cry The Beloved Country by Alan Paton  January 2004
Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese  February 2011
Dancing At The Edge Of The World by Ursula LeGuin  April 2001
Dancing Skeletons by Katherine Dettwyler  September 2006
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life Of Gertrude Bell by Janet Wallach  November 2010
Dish: The Inside Story On The World Of Gossip by Jeannette Walls  August 2017
Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller  December 2007
Dreaming Water by Gail Tsukiyama  May 2008 
Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama  June 2005   
Due For Discard by Sharon St. George  December Henr 
East Of Eden by John Steinbeck  September 2003 
Educated by Tara Westover  April Henr
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman  August Henr
End Of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe  October 2013
Endangered Dreams by Kenneth Starr  June 2002 
English Creek by Ivan Doig  June 2007
Epitaph For A Peach by David Mas Masumoto  September 2008   
Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer  April 2015
Facism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright  March Henr
Faithful Place by Tana French  July 2012
Farewell To Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston  December 1999   
Final Solution by Michael Chabon  February 2010
Fleeing The Fates Of The Little Rascals by Laura June Kenny  August 2005
Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts  October 2005
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything by Steven D. Levitt  June 2017
Girl With Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier  October 2001
Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls  August 2006
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee  June 2016 
God Has Ninety-nine Names by Judith Miller  November 2001
Gold Rush (1st Half) by Michael Kowalewski  October 2000
Gold Rush (2nd Half) by Michael Kowalewski  November 2000
Golden Compass by Philip Pullman  November 2007 
Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck  July 2002
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah 4.33 February 2020
Half The Sky by Nicholas Kristof  January 2013
Harvest For Hope by Jane Goodall  January 2007
High Tide In Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver  January 2000
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance March 2020
Homebase by Shawn Wong  May 2001   
Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet by Jamie Ford  January 2011
House Of Sand And Fog by Andre Dubus  August 2001 
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai  July 2015
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Agelou  December 2016   
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio  May 2017 
In The Garden Of Beasts by Erik Larson  September 2012
In The Heart Of The Sea by Nathan Philbrick  February 2003
In The Name Of Honor by Richard North Patterson  November 2011
In The Shadow Of The Banyan by Vaddey Ratner  June 2014 
In The Shadow Of The Cypress by Thomas Steinbeck  March 2012 
In The Spirit Of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen  May 2002
Inside The Obrien's by Lisa Genova  January 2016
Interpreter Of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri  September 2001
Into The Forest by Jean Hegland  January 2009
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison  January 2005
Ishi In Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber  July 2000
Jack London: Sailor On Horseback by Irving Stone  September 2004
Kissing The Virgin’s Mouth by Donna Gershten  June 2009
Kiyo’s Story by Kiyo Sato  April 2012
Last Report On The Miracles At Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich  October 2012
Life Of Pi by Yann Martel  June 2003
Lisette's List by Susan Vreeland  November 2015
Little Bee by Chris Cleave  April 2011
Lives Of The Muses by Francine Prose  August 2009
Living History by Hillary Clinton  July 2004
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan  November 2008 
Lucky by Alice Sebold  January 2003
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman  February 2002 
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson  November 2012
Making Rounds With Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift by David Dosa  June 2011
Manhatten Beach by Jennifer   Egan  July Henr
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen  December 2006 
March by Geraldine Brooks  June 2006
Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk  March 2014 
McCarthy's Bar: A Journey Of Discovery In Ireland by Pete McCarthy  June 2013
Men To Match My Mountains by Irving Stone  March 2002 
Methland: The Death And Life Of An American Small Town by Nick Reding  February 2015 
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides  January 2008
Mockingbird by Charles Shields  October 2007
Moloka’i by Alan Brennert  September 2009
Monuments Men by Robert Edsel  January 2015 
Mr. Pip by Lloyd Jones  March 2009
My Antonia by Willa Cather  November 2006
My Life On The Road by Gloria Steinem  November 2018 
Night by Elie Wiesel  February 2006
Nine Parts Of Desire by Geraldine Brooks  October 2003
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith  December 2003 
Notorius RBG: The Life And Times Of Ruth Bader Ginsgurg by Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik  April 2017
Octopus by Frank Norris  September 2000
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout  December 2010
Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan  August 2008
On Gold Mountain by Lisa See  April 2008
On The Move by Oliver Sacks  June Henr
One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez  November 2004 
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus  June 2018   
Orange Is The New Black by Piper Kerman  January 2014 
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger  November 2014
Orphan Train: A Novel by Christina Baker Kline  May 2014
Peace Be Upon Yu by Zachary Karabell  March 2016 
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi  January 2006
Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason  March 2007
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver  July 2003
Postman Always Rings Twice by James Cain  December 2001   
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver  August 2002
Quiet by Susan Cain  October 2017
Reading Lolita In Tehran by Azar Nafisi  June 2004
Red Notice by Bill Browder  July 2018
Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams  April 2002
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie  August 2010
Roughing It by Mark Twain  April 2005
Rules Of Civility by Amor Towles  April 2013
Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs  April 2006
Salvage The Bones by Jesmyn Ward  March 2013 
Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney  May 2005
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand  November 2002
Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd  April 2003
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure Of Two Americans by Robert Kurson  May 2010 
Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón  October 2010
Shine, Shine, Shine by Lydia Netzer  April 2014
Snow Falling On Cedars by David Guterson  April 2000
Snow Flower And Secret Fan by Lisa See  April 2007
Snow Mountain Passage by James Houston  May 2004   
Sons And Lovers by D.H. Lawrence  February 2014
State Of Wonder by Ann Patchett  May 2013
Still Alice by Lisa Genova  December 2012
Stones For Ibarra by Harriet Doerr  March 2001
Storied Life Of A.j. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin  December 2015
Surely, You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman  September 2018 
Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing  July 2007
Tales Of A Female Nomad: Living At Large In The World by Rita Golden Gelman  August 2014 
Tell The Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt  September 2016
Tender At The Bone by Ruth Reichl  September 2005
The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho  April 2010
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind by William Kamkwamba  December 2013       
The Boys In The Boat: Nine Americans And Their Epic Quest For Gold by Daniel J. Brown  June 2015
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time by Mark Haddon  March 2005
The Dressmaker Of Khair Khana by Gayle Tzemach  May 2012   
The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips  June 2008
The Faraway Horses by Buck Brannaman  June 2012 
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green  December 2014
The Girl With Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee  April 2018
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald  September 2013
The Help by Kathryn Stockett  June 2010
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb  September 2010
The Human Stain by Philip Roth  November 2005
The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot  July 2011
The Interrogation Of Gabriel James by Charlie Price  February 2012
The Invention Of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd  May 2015 
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini  December 2005
The Known World by Edward Jones  September 2007 
The Language Of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh  November 2013 
The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan  July 2008
The Lexus & The Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman  May 2006 
The Library Book by Susan Orlean January 2020
The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens  November 2016
The Mathematician's Shiva by Stuart Rojstaczer  May 2016
The Morning The Sun Went Down by Darryl Babe Wilson  February 2001 
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri  February 2008 
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah  May Henr
The Nine: Inside The Secret World Of The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin  May 2011
The Pact by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, Lisa Frazier  Page February 2004
The Paris Wife; A Moveable Feast by Paula McLain;  Ernest Hemingway  January 2012 
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories From My Life by John le Carre  May 2018
The Prize Winner Of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan  August 2011
The Road To Character by David Brooks  February 2017
The Signature Of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert  March 2015
The Soloist by Steve Lopez  March 2010
The Soul Of America by Jon Meacham  September Henr 
The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman  December 2000   
The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski  July 2009
The Sympathizer by Vieet Thanh Nguyen  August 2018 
The Tattoo Artist by Jill Ciment  October 2015
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead  October 2018 
The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce  April 2016
The Violinist’s Thumb by Sam Kean  July 2014
The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt  August 2016   
The Whip by Karen Kondazian  February 2016 
The Woman In The Window by A.J. Finn  February 2019 
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman  October 2009 
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan  November 2009 
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough  January 2017
The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman  May 2009 
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston  December 2004 
This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff  March 2003
This House Of Sky by Ivan Doig  February 2000
Thomas Jefferson: The Art Of Power by Jon Meacham  November 2017 
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum  January 2010 
Three Cups Of Tea by Greg Mortenson  August 2007 
Three Junes by Julia Glass  April 2004
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee  November 2003
Too Close To The Falls by Catherine Gildiner  December 2008
Too Late To Die Young by Harriet McBryde Johnson  October 2006
Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle  October 2008
Unbowed by Wangari Maathai  April 2009
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand  August 2012
Voyage Of The Narwhal by Andrea Barrett  January 2001
Walking With The Wind by John Lewis  February 2005
Walkout by Henry C. Woodrum  December 2011   
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen  July 2010
Weapons Of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality & Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil  February 2018 
What It Is Like To Go To War by Karl Marlantes  October 2014
White Teeth by Zadie Smith  July 2005
Whiteman by Tony D’Souza  March 2008 
Wild Swans by Jung Chang  September 2017 
Winter Of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck  October 2002
World’s Strongest Librarian by Josh Hanagarne  March 2018
Year In Provence by Peter Mayle  July 2006
Young Men And Fire by Norman Maclean  November 1999   
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers  March 2011