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The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery
April 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
While re-reading this book for book club (>30 years after the fall of the USSR), I am appalled that I do not know which side our current president would support in a similar situation. Scary & sad.
April 22, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Eternal Life: A New Vision by John Shelby Spong
The author avers that by seeking God within, by living each day to its fullest, we will come to understand how we live eternally.
April 21, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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The Arthurian Saga by Mary Stewart
A most magical retelling of the court of Camelot. When I first read it, I only knew it as a trilogy and later discovered The Wicked Day; The Prince and the Pilgrim hardly seems to belong.
April 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative tells its mission: to defend the most desperate and in need: the poor, wrongly condemned, and trapped in our justice system.
April 20, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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The City, Not Long After
By Pat Murphy
Written in 2005, this book tells of a San Francisco, not long after a global pandemic. I read it in 2016 and again recently. “A magical journey into what it means to survive.”
April 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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The Day Lincoln Was Shot by Jim Bishop
An excellent account of April 14, 1865, hour by hour from the start of Lincoln’s last day at work through his attendance at Ford’s Theater until his death early the next morning. Written in 1955.
April 19, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Seven Days in May by Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II
A chillingly plausible portrait of a military coup attempt by a mad ambitious US general asserting that only he can fix it. Think it can’t happen here? God, let’s hope not!
April 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature by David George Haskell
A biologist uses a one- square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world.
April 15, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Giant by Edna Ferber
West Texas and the transition from ranch to oil rig with a healthy dose of romance, not to mention Texas coming to terms with class and race. And that big gorgeous movie with Dimitri Tiomkin’s luscious soundtrack!
April 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro
An excellent series of the life and times of President Lyndon Baines Johnson. The first four books have been written but the fifth volume about the Vietnam War years—not yet.
April 13, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
A tender love story, a Chinese-Japanese Romeo and Juliet, set in Seattle at the beginning of World War II as Japanese-Americans were being sent to internment camps. Truly bitter sweet.
April 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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The Women with Silver Wings by Katherine Sharp Landdeck
The inspiring story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
April 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Chances Are…by Richard Russo
Three life-long friends meet on Martha’s Vineyard and puzzle over a mysterious disappearance of a mutual friend 45 years before.
April 10, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate by David Archer who predicts that if we continue to emit carbon dioxide we may eventually cancel the next ice age and raise the ocean by 50 meters. Yikes!
April 9, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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March by Geraldine Brooks
My OTHER favorite book by Geraldine Brooks is the story of the father of the March girls from Little Women and his experiences as a chaplain in the Civil War as his family waits for him at home.
April 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal by Neil King Jr.
In 2021, a journalist and cancer survivor walks from Washington DC to New York City, seeing the history of our country with new eyes. Remarkable, inspiring story.
April 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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The Slough House Series by Mick Herron
What do you do with a spy who screws up, one who knows too much to let loose on the world? Send them to Slough House, where all the “slow horses” go to die.
April 6, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
April 5, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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The Poet of Tolstoy Park by Sonny Brewer
When a retired professor is told he has a short time to live, he moves to Fairhope, Alabama, builds a round house of handmade concrete blocks, and begins to live.
April 4, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life by Ferris Jabr
According to the author, “we, and all living things, are more than inhabitants of Earth—we are Earth, an outgrowth of its structure and an engine of its evolution.”
April 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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The Good Wife of Bath by Karen Brooks
It’s April, when folk long to go on pilgrimage. Chaucer’s story is retold with a little less ridicule, a bit more empathy without ruining the story.
April 2, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Oath and Honor by Liz Cheney
A gripping and well-told chronicle of January 6th, 2021 from inside the Capitol and the aftermath. I do not agree with her politics but I am a great admirer of her strength of character and love of our country.
April 1, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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The Women by Kristin Hannah
A moving story of a young woman who joins the Army Nurse Corps in 1965 and goes to Vietnam and how her life is changed.
March 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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The Sea Trilogy:
Under the Sea Wind,
The Sea Around Us,
The Edge of the Sea
By Rachel Carson
March 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM