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Book Type
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Book
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March 31
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N
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Pavilion of Women – P.S.
Buck. A searching, adult study of women, highly serious
and sympathetic. A Chinese woman selects a concubine for
her husband, then separates from him, leading to her
discovery of her emotional desires and intellectual
curiosity.
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April
28
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N
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My Stroke of Insight – Jo
Bolt Taylor
Spell of the Sensuous –
Abram. Humans have viewed themselves as part of the wider
community of nature, including other animals, plants and
natural objects, for 1000s of years.
We are severed today from this view of ancient
reciprocity. What
will it take to recover it?
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May
26
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N
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Fugitive Pieces – A.
Michaels. Seven-year-old Jakob is rescued from the
slaughter of Jews in his village by a Greek geologist. The
book follows Jakob after his rescue, telling of his change
from a half-wild casualty of the Holocaust to an artist
who extracts meaning from its abyss.
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June
30
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N
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Unbowed – W.
Maathai. A
memoir from the first African woman-and the first
environmentalist-to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Covers her
life from childhood to adulthood of planting trees,
changing lives and restoring democracy to Kenya.
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July
28
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N
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The Poisonwood Bible –
Barbara
Kingsolver
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August 25
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N
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Amish Grace – D. Kraybill
– About the Amish response of forgiveness to the
massacre at the Amish schoolhouse.
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September 29
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N
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The Guernsey Literary and
Potato Peel Pie Society – Shaffer and Barrows.
Journalist Juliet receives letters from the residents of
the English island of Guernsey during its German
occupation in WWII. Juliet’s clever quips, and the
letters, enchanting, heroic, vivid and moving, keep you
turning the pages.
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October 27
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N
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Letters from MIR: An
Astronaut's Letters to His Son – J. Linenger
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December 8
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N
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My Grandfather’s
Blessings – Reymen. Stories that strengthen and
celebrate the life around us, how we bless one another
without realizing it, and how life blesses us even when
it’s not comfortable.
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January
26,
2010
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N
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As Meat Loves Salt – M.
McCann. “Absorbing & historically meticulous.” It
attracted me for its engrossing picture of English life
below the top classes in mid-17th
century, during the political and religious turmoil giving
rise to Quakers. The
two main characters still are giving me thought.
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February
23, 2010
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F
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When Things Fall Apart –
P. Chondron. A look by an American nun on various
perspectives on self examination to help the reader build
their inner calm, to find their personal paths, and to
find compassion for ourselves and others. Written with
humor, humility and clarity.
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March
2010
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F
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To be announced.
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April 27
2010
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F
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Spark: The Revolutionary
New Science of Exercise and the Brain – Ratey/Hagerman.
The first book to explore comprehensively the connection
between exercise and the brain. It is filled with amazing
case studies and will change the way you think.
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