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• Harlem Shuffle

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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  DN loves all things New York, and this has the grift, the mystery, that you'd expect from the author, but it is also a story of someone climbing the social ladder while surrounded by petty and pretty big criminals. Lots of insights into the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Red Knight

  Cameron, Miles

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  JM is reading through this series, where there are about 12 characters and each of them has a very interesting story - a really big, beautiful world-building fantasy series.

• Value(s)

  Building a Better World for All

  Carney, Mark

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  PB is also reading this treatise that explains why health will euchre the economy

• The Library Thief

  a Novel

  Shenjé, Kuchenga,

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  PB is reading a winding novel of book binders and subterfuge

• New Girl in Little Cove

  Monaghan, Damhnait,

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  FB says this is a sweet, cozy, nice book; atmospheric, check, romance, check, a little mystery, check. The audiobook was just fantastic.

• Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  Stories

  Vowel, Chelsea,

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  GA read this "Indigenous horror" of 8 short stories that contain history reimaginings that the author herself calls "Metis Futurisms"

• Elusive

  Cogman, Genevieve

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  RG picked up this series (first one is called Scarlet), because she enjoyed the author's other series, The Invisible Library; this series reimagines the adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel through the eyes of a lower class servant; she learns about…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Frozen River

  a Novel

  Lawhon, Ariel,

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  TW is reading this history novel... 6 months of midwifery in 1790s Maine, when a woman could not speak to a doctor without her husband being present

• The Wind in the Willows

  Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932

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  KF is enjoying this classic she missed as a child, especially the illustrations

• Complete Stories

  Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967

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  SS picked this up as a beach read (it's not really a beach read); Parker was known for her ascerbic wit, but SS feels both men and women would enjoy these short stories

• Original Sin

  James, P. D.

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  KF is also reading this mystery set in an old publishing house - she isn't finished yet but the bodies are piling up

• The Monkey's Raincoat

  Crais, Robert

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  TE enjoyed re-reading this author favourite; two detectives, one ex-Marine, one smartass; it's at times laugh out loud funny, though the mystery of a father/husband who goes missing is serious enough. There are a lot of seeds planted in this book…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lucky Loser

  How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

  Buettner, Russ

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  RS says that unlike other expose memoirs, he was shocked at how much fun it was to read - it follows the money like a forensic accountant but it is very readable and interesting

• 1974

  a Personal History

  Prose, Francine, 1947-

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  BR is reading this memoir of a woman linked to the Pentagon Papers; lots of reflections and musings about things going on at the time

• No Democracy Lasts Forever, bu Erwin Chemerinsky

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  DW is reading this thesis that the US Constitution -written by wealthy white males for wealthy white males - has to be re-written or the country will break up. An illuminating and troubling treatise.

• Taming the Street The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR's Fight to Regulate American Capitalism By Diana B. Henriques

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  BK says this is a brilliantly written history of American financial regulation, how Hoover broke it and caused the Great Depression

• The Island of Doctor Moreau

  Wells, H G

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  KO says this is a bit Frankenstein, a bit Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a but Planet of the Apes, and though it was written over a century ago it is still relevant today

• I Hope This Finds You Well

  a Novel

  Sue, Natalie

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  MC says this is not as frothy as the title makes it seems, it is quite dark in places and resentful in tone, but ends in compassion.

• By the Ghost Light

  War, Memory, and Families

  Thomson, R. H.

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  As a researcher HS enjoyed this deep dive into personal histories of those involved in and survived WWI, it contains amazingly touching stories - and questions - of memorial

• LD read this in her journey towards mindfulness

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