Total--
15 participants-- 70 books-- 14,742
pages [32 hours 15 minutes listened]
Ponder
·
The
Battle of Mogadishu - 65 pages
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Coming
of Age in Mississippi - 163 pages
Schmitt
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Meier. English
Tea Murder; a Lucy Stone mystery.
265pp. Good grief, the bodies
start to fall almost before they can get off the tarmac on the way to England.
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Friend. Sheepish;
Two Women, Fifty Sheep and Enough Wool to Save the World 263 pp.
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Dodson.
Uglier than a Monkey’s Armpit; Untranslatable
Insults, Put-Downs and Curses from around the World 122pp. Picked up a handy dandy German put-down
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Bates.
Darling Buds of May. 158pp. A best seller from England, from the forties…
droll – but I guess you really had to be there to “get” all the social caste
jokes- at least I hope they were jokes?
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Brett. Blotto,
Twinks, and the Ex-King’s Daughter 211pp.
Another period murder mystery, simply the lark’s larynx, don’t you
know?
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Lutz.
Head’s You Lose. 301pp. An snippy epistolary exchange and enough red
herrings to feed Sweden for a decade.
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Daheim.
All the Pretty Hearses. 299pp. part
of the B&B series, set in Seattle.
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Evanovich.
Explosive Eighteen. 305pp.
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Kilmer-Purcell.
Bucolic Plague. 304pp. Nice companion
piece to Sheepish; more city folks
hit upside the head by the realities (and charms) of farming
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Beaton.
Death of a Kingfisher. 245pp. Hamish
figures it out, as usual.
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(10
books 2473 pp.)
Smith, C
·
The Enormous Crocodile, by
Roald Dahl, 22 pages
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Dewey... There's a Cat in the
Library, by Vicki Myron and Bret Witten, 20 pages
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There are Cats in This Book, by
Vivane Schwartz, 12 pages
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The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians,
by Carla Morris, 20 pages
Sciuto
·
The Giver by Lois Lowry
- 180 pages
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Mockingjay by Suzanne
Collins - 390pp.
Tohtz
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The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll by Simon
Reynolds and Joy Press, 388 pages
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Steele. Japan Fashion Now.
251pp.
Hovis
·
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson, 258 pages
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The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith, 213
pages.
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The Book of Lies by Mary Horlock, 347 pages.
Sanguinet
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Room : a novel / Emma Donoghue. 321 pages. A simply
gripping story of a young mother, who was kidnapped as a 19-year-old college
student and her 5-year-old son (the narrator) who have been imprisoned in a
locked, sound proof shack and plan an escape. Highly recommended.
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The table comes first [sound recording] : family, France,
and the meaning of food / Adam Gopnik.11 hours.(293pp.) An interesting, maybe
too detailed (it drags in places) history of food and eating centered on the
French experience. Only if you’re a devote foodie.
Fitzwater
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Believe the Lie by
Elizabeth George 608 pages
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John
LeCarre 381 pages
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Cutting for Stone by Abraham
Verghese 657 pages
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No Mark on Her by Deborah
Crombie 369 pages
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Buddah in the Attic by Julie
Otsuka 144 pages
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Gossip by Joseph
Epstein 219 pages
Sciuto
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Little
Bee 266 pages
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Steve
Jobs 571 pages
Ohmer
·
ITALIAN
SHOES by Henning Mankell audio—9 discs, 10
hours (247 pages)
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CHILDREN
AND FIRE by Ursula Hegi
(272 pages)
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OUTLAW
ALBUM: STORIES by Daniel Woodrell (167 pages) This is the author of WINTER’S BONE which was
made into the Academy Award nominated movie. These stories have the same
stark Missouri Ozark setting and themes as did the novel.
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YEAR
OF MAGICAL THINKING by Joan Didion,
audio—4 discs, 5hours 15 minutes (227
pages)
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BLUE
NIGHTS by Joan Didion, audio—4discs, 6
hours (188 pages) Candid
reflections on the year after the unexpected death of her husband followed by
the loss of her only child a year or two later. Compelling back to back
reads.
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SWEETNESS
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE by Alan C. Bradley (373 pages).
Brazeal
·
The
Letters of John Hus: translated from the Latin and the Czech by Spinka,
Matthew. 1972. 25 pages
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Redrawing
Nations: ethnic cleansing in east-central Europe, 1944-1948. Ther, Philipp and
Ana Siljak eds. pp.121-130, 197-215, 307-325.
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Living
by Faith: justification and sanctification by Bayer, Oswald. 2003
86 pages
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The
Last Flowers of the Middle Ages: from Gothic to the Renaissance in Moravia and
Silesia Ivo Hlobil, ed. 2000. pp.25-64, 70-74, 144-146, 158-159,
239-243, 263-274, 302-304.
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The Long Road
Home: the aftermath of the second world war
by Shephard, Ben. pp.1-179
Helbling
· Wonderstruck : a novel in words and pictures / Brian Selznick. 637
pages.
Freeman
·
Burkert.
Mouse’s Lion. 26pp.
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Carle.
The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse.
22pp.
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Jane.
Little Goblin Ten. 32pp.
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Murray.
Gingerbread Man Loose in the School. 30pp.
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Ray.
Stars. 32pp.
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Child.
Over the River and Through the Wood. 26pp.
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Sidman.
Swirl by Swirl; spirals in nature. 32pp.
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Delillo.
Falling Man. 246pp.
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Smith.
Grandpa Green. 28pp.
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Moses.
Mary and Her Little Lamb. 19pp.
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Jeffries.
Lady Never Surrenders. 397pp.
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Sociologist’s
Book of Cartoons. 86pp.
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Moundlic.
Scar. 33pp.
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Lindbergh.
Homer the Library Cat. 26pp.
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Dewdney.
Llama, Llama, Home with Mama. 31pp.
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Daly. Prudence Wants a Pot. 27pp.
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Bently.
King Jack and the Dragon. 29pp.
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Measner.
Over and Under the Snow. 34pp.
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Alexander.
My Wicked Little Lies 374pp.
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Laurens.
Capture of the Earl of Glencrae. 660pp.
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(2190pp.
20 books)
Carmody
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Debt:
The First 5,000 Years (David Graeber) 534pp.
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Behind
the Beautiful Forevers (Katherine Boo) 256pp.
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Time
for Outrage (Indignez-vous!) (Stéphane Hessel) 41pp.
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Dance
the Eagle to Sleep (Marge Piercy) 232 pp.
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How
to Brew (John Palmer) 347 pp.
Henderson
·
Lost
Gold of the Dark Ages, War, Treasure, and the Mystery of the Saxons by Caroline
Alexander, 2011, 239 pages
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