April – June 2014 |
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April |
Doris Kerns Godwin |
The Bully Pulpit |
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May |
Victoria Sweet |
God’s Hotel |
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June |
Elizabeth Kolbert |
6th Extinction, an unnatural history |
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Sept. 2014-June 2015 |
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Sept. |
Barbara Tuchman |
August 1914 |
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Oct. |
No meeting |
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Nov. |
Margaret MacMillan |
Paris 1919 |
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Dec. |
Geraldine Brooks |
Year of Wonders: A novel of the plague |
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Jan. |
Richard Harris |
Pompeii, the Novel |
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Febr. |
Kate Atkinson |
Case Histories |
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March |
Robert Whitaker |
The Mapmaker’s Wife |
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April |
Yelena Akhtiorskaya |
Panic in a Suitcase |
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May |
Thomas Piketty |
Capital in the Twenty-first Century |
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June |
Steven Johnson |
How we got to now: Six innovations that made the modern world |
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Sept. 2015-June 2016 |
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Sept. |
Kate Atkinson |
Life after Life |
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Oct. |
James Brown |
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their epic quest of gold at the 1936 Olympics |
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Nov. |
Janet Soskice |
The Sisters of Sinai: How two lady adventurers discovered the hidden Gospels |
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Dec. |
Jamie Ford |
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet |
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Jan. |
Qais Akbar Omar |
A Fort of Nine Towers. An Afghan family story |
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Febr. |
Mario Livio |
Brilliant Blunders. From Darwin to Einstein |
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March |
David McCullough |
The Wright Brothers |
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April |
Oliver Sacks |
The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and other Clinical Tales |
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May |
Daniel E. Lieberman |
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, health and disease |
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June |
Anthony Doerr |
All the Light we cannot see |
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Sept. 2016-June 2017 |
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September |
Andy Weir |
The Martian |
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Oct. |
Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
The Black Swan: The Impact of the highly improbable |
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Nov. |
Ivan Doig |
Whistling Season |
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Dec. |
Louisa Thomas |
Louisa: The extraordinary Life of Louisa Adams |
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Jan. |
Michael Freyn |
Headlong |
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Febr. |
Erik Larson |
Dead Wake: the last Crossing of the Lusitania |
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March |
Anne Tyler |
Vinegar Girl |
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April |
J.D. Vance |
Hillbilly Elegy: A memoir of a family and culture in crisis |
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May |
Bill Bryson |
The Mother Tongue: English and how it got that way |
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June |
Richard Condon |
The Manchurian Candidate |
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Sept. 2017-Dec. 2017 |
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Sept. |
Simon Winchester |
The Professor and the Madman: A tale of murder, insanity and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary |
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Oct. |
Margot Lee Shetterly |
Hidden Numbers: The hidden dreams and the untold story of the black mathematicians who helped win the space race |
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Nov. |
Atul Gawande |
Being Mortal: Medicine and what matters in the end |
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Dec. |
Bill Bryson |
One Summer: America 1927 |
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