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September 20, 2018
As is our custom, join us to share 2-3 of your favorite summer reads!
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November 15, 2018
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill
by Candace Millard
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October 18, 2018
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World’s Superpowers
by Simon Winchester
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December 13, 2018 Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature As An Adult
Bruce Handy
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January 17, 2019
The Four: the Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google
by Scott Galloway
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February 21, 2019
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond
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March 21, 2019
Just Mercy: a Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
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April 18, 2019
The Lost City of the Monkey God: a True Story
by Douglas Preston
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May 16, 2019
The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
by Sebastian Smee
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September 20, 2018
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September 20, 2018
As is our custom, join us to share 2-3 of your favorite summer reads!
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October 19, 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J.D. Vance
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November 16, 2017
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
John Vaillant
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December 14, 2017
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
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January 18, 2018
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, with Douglas Carlton Abrams
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February 15, 2018
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson
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March 15, 2018
The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee
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April 19, 2018
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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May 17, 2018
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman
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September 20, 2018
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September
Sharing of Summer Reads!
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October 20
Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America’s Richest City
Robert Booth
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November 17
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Ari Berman
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December 15
George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution
Brian Kilmeade
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January 19, 2017
History of the World in Six Glasses
Tom Standage
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February 16
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
Steve Olson
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March 16
The Wright Brothers
David McCullough
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April 20
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters at the End
Atul Gawande
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May 18
So Close to Home: A True Story of an American Family’s Fight for Survival During World War II
Michael Tougias
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September
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September
Sharing of Summer Reads!
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October 15
A Short History of Nearly Everything (2004)
Bill Bryson
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November 12
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted adn America in the 19th Century (2000)
Witold Rybczynski
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December 10
Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation (2014)
Bill Nye
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January 21, 2016
The Good City: Writers Explore 21st Century Boston (2004)
Emily Hiestand, editor
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March 17
Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men and a Disaster Ten Miles into Darkness (2014)
Neil Swidey
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February 18
Mayflower: A story of Courage, Community and War (2007)
Nathaniel Philbrick
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April 21
E.B. White, a Biography (1984)
Scott Elledge
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May 19
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (2013)
Michael Pollan
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September
September 11, 2014
In September, participants share their own favorites with the group.October 16, 2014
God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570 to 1215 (2008)
by David Levering LewisNovember 13, 2014
One Summer, America, 1927 (2013)
by Bill BrysonDecember 11, 2014
An Appetite for Wonder: the Making of a Scientist: A Memoir (2013)
by Richard DawkinsJanuary 8, 2015
Extra Virginity: the Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil (2013)
by Tom MuellerFebruary 12, 2015
C.S. Lewis: a Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet (2013)
by Alister McGrathMarch 19, 2015
The Sixth Extinction: an Unnatural History (2014)
by Elizabeth KolbertApril 16, 2015
The Island at the Center of the World: the Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America (2004)
by Russell ShortoMay 14, 2015
The Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston (2008)
by John Hanson MitchellSeptember 12, 2013
In September, participants share their own favorites with the group.October 17, 2013
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011)
by Stephen GreenblattNovember 14, 2013
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2012)
by Laura HillenbrandDecember 12, 2013
Walt Whitman, A Life (2003)
by Justin KaplanJanuary 9, 2014
The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home (2003)
by George Howe ColtFebruary 6, 2014
My Beloved World (2013)
by Sonya SotomayorMarch 6, 2014
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscover America on the Appalachian Trail (1998)
by Bill BrysonApril 3, 2014
When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea,
Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail(2012)
by Eric Jay Dolin
May 1, 2014
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life (2013)
by Megan MarshallSeptember 13, 2012
In September, participants share their own favorites with the group.
October 11, 2012
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
by Robert K. MassieNovember 8, 2012
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine BooDecember 13, 2012
The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
by Ben WallaceJanuary 10, 2013
The Mapmaker’s Wife: A Tale of True Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
by Robert WhitakerFebruary 14, 2013
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
by Isabel WilkersonMarch 14, 2013
The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh
by David DamroschApril 11, 2013
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha MukherjeeMay 9, 2013
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
by Erik Larson