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Book Recommendations

The Book of Lost Friends – by Lisa Wingate

Mar 20, 2022
Most of us know the horrific stories of how slavery in the American South wrenched Black families apart.  But did you ever stop to think

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An Anonymous Girl – by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

Mar 20, 2022
For me, someone who ordinarily doesn’t read psychological thrillers, this book was both creepy and compelling.  The writers, who collaborated via Google Docs to create

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Leaving Mother Lake – by Yang Erche Namu

Mar 20, 2022
Imagine a society in which marriage doesn’t exist, women run the community, inheritance is through the female line, and women make business decisions.  Such a

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Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness – as told to Robert Specht

Mar 20, 2022
Imagine that it’s 1927 and you are a 19-year-old woman who wants to teach and craves challenges in a faraway place.  Would you have what

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Ape House – by Sara Gruen

Apr 16, 2017
Ape House is a very readable book for many reasons. It is based on a love of animals, and in particular, bonobos chimpanzees. It offers

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The Japanese Lover – By Isabel Allende

Apr 12, 2017
“In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco’s parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt

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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry – by Garielle Zevin

May 4, 2016
This is very dear and sweet book for lovers of books.  A.J. Fikry is the quirky owner of a small, independent bookstore on the fictional

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The Light Between Oceans – by M.L. Stedman

Aug 5, 2015
The Light Between Oceans is a multi-layered, tragic story of a lighthouse keeper, his wife and the course of action they took upon discovering a

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The Boys in the Boat – by Daniel James Brown

Feb 2, 2015
 This is the true and quite amazing story of the 1936 Olympic crew made up of nine young men from Washington State who beat all

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Boston Girl – by Anita Diamant

Feb 1, 2015
A great question for a woman of any age is “How did you get to be the woman you are today?”  When 85-year-old Addie Baum

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The Orphan Train – by Cristina Baker Kline

Feb 1, 2015
 The Orphan Train by Cristina Baker Kline, speaks to a program led by various Christian church groups at the turn of the twentieth century to place

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The Storyteller – by Jodi Picoult

Feb 1, 2015
Sage Singer is a baker, a loner, until she befriends an old man who’s particularly beloved in her community. Josef Weber is everyone’s favorite retired

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The Signature of All Things – by Elizabeth Gilbert

Jan 1, 2015
From the New York Times Book Review  “Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this

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As a Driven Leaf – by Milton Steinberg

Jan 1, 2015
Set in Roman Palestine, As a Driven Leaf draws readers into the dramatic era of Rabbinic Judaism. Watch the great Talmudic sages at work in the Sanhedrin,

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Tin Horse – by Janice Steinberg

Jan 1, 2015
 The Tin Horse is a rich multigenerational story about the intense, often fraught bonds between sisters, mothers, and daughters and the profound and surprising ways we

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