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Book Club Kit: Wild From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail By Cheryl Strayed First Published: 2012 10 Copies & Reading Guide At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered, … Continue reading
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Tagged 10 Copies, 2012, audiobooks, Biography, eBooks, Hiking, Memoir, travel
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Book Club Kit: Flyaway
Flyaway by Suzie Gilbert First Published: 2009 5 Copies & Reading Guide A bird rehabilitation specialist describes her experiences with assisting injured animals and the impact of her work on her family life, in an account that remembers the special … Continue reading
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Tagged 2009, 5 Copies, AJPL, birds, Nature, Suzie Gilbert
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Book Club Kit: The Devil in the White City
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson First Published: 2003 5 Copies & Reading Guide The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 was one of the most spectacular exhibitions … Continue reading
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Tagged 2003, 5 Copies, AJPL, books, Chicago, Erik Larson, reading, True Crime
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Book Club Kit: Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman First Published: 1995 5 Copies & Reading Guide Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman’s brilliant report from … Continue reading
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Tagged 5 Copies, AJPL, books, business, David Goleman, psychology, reading
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Book Club Kit: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua First Published: 2011 6 Copies & Reading Guide Traces the rewards and pitfalls of a Chinese mother’s exercise in extreme parenting, describing the exacting standards applied to grades, music lessons, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Memoir, 6 Copies, AJPL, books, reading, 2011, family, Amy Chua, parenting
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Book Club Kit: The Children’s Blizzard
The Children’s Blizzard by David Laskin First Published: 2004 6 Copies & Reading Guide Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered “land, freedom, and hope.” The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead … Continue reading
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Tagged 2004, AJPL, David Laskin, History, Nature, weather
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Book Club Kit: The Water is Wide
The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy First Published: 1972 6 Copies & Reading Guide Yamacraw Island was haunting, nearly deserted, and beautiful. Separated from the mainland of South Carolina by a wide tidal river, it was accessible only by … Continue reading
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Tagged 6 Copies, AJPL, books, Memoir, Pat Conroy, reading
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Book Club Kit: Reading Lolita in Tehran
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi First Published: 2003 5 Copies & Reading Guide From 1995-97 in Iran, Azar Nafisi gathered with seven of her former students, all young women, to read and discuss forbidden … Continue reading
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Tagged 2003, 5 Copies, AJPL, Azar Nafisi, books, Iran, literature, reading, Tehran
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Book Club Kit: In the Garden of Beasts
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson First Published: 2011 6 Copies & Reading Guide The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Germany in a year that proved to … Continue reading
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Tagged 6 Copies, AJPL, books, Erik Larson, Germany, literature, reading, World War II, WWII
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