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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello Friends,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have received several suggestions for this year’s book club. See below. These are in no particular time order. I think I have all of our suggestions. I am still looking for questions for some of these books.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">John I think.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h4 style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#006600"><a href="https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB100088"><span lang="EN">Caste: the origins of our discontents </span>DB100088</a><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Wilkerson, Isabel </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Reading time:
14 hours, 28 minutes.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Robin Miles</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
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<span style="background:white">Social Sciences</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Bestsellers</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns (DB 71929) examines the unofficial </span></span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red;background:white">caste</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">s
and hierarchies she has observed as inherent in American society. She also discusses the eight pillars of all </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red;background:white">caste</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> systems
and offers ways for America to move forward. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2020.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Karin<o:p></o:p></p>
<h4 style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#006600"><a href="https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB100531"><span lang="EN">Anxious people</span> DB100531</a><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Backman, Fredrik; Smith, Neil </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Reading
time: 9 hours, 55 minutes.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Marin Ireland</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
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<span style="background:white">Humor</span><br>
<span style="background:white">General</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Psychological Fiction</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house in a Swedish town becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes an eclectic group of strangers hostage. Strong language
and some violence. Commercial audiobook. 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Leroy two books with questions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<h4 style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#006600"><a href="https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB77515"><span lang="EN">Devil in the grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the
dawn of a new America </span>DB77515</a><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">K</span><span class="hghlght"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red;background:white">in</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">g,
Gilbert </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Reading time: 16 hours, 41 minutes.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Bob Moore </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">A production of the National Library
Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
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<span style="background:white">Social Sciences</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Legal Issues</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">Details </span></span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red;background:white">the</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> events
that led to </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red;background:white">the</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> Supreme
Court's 1951 decision </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red;background:white">in</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> Shepherd
v. Florida, which overturned </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red;background:white">the</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> convictions
of three black men accused of rap</span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red;background:white">in</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">g
a white teenager. Highlights </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red;background:white">the</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> role
played by NAACP attorney--and future Supreme Court justice--Thurgood Marshall. Violence and strong language. Pulitzer Prize. 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h4 style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#006600"><a href="https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB102965"><span lang="EN">Empire of pain: the secret history of the Sackler dynasty </span>DB102965</a><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Keefe, Patrick Radden </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Reading
time: 18 hours, 9 minutes.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Patrick Radden Keefe</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
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<span style="background:white">Biography</span><br>
<span style="background:white">True Crime</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">Author </span></span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red;background:white">of</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> Say
Nothing (DB 94329) examines the history </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red;background:white">of</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> the
Sackler family who has donated money to many prominent cultural and educational institutions, but who have made their money </span><span class="hghlght"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red;background:white">of</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">f
drugs like Valium and OxyContin. Discusses legal challenges the family and their companies have faced. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Christine<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Billy Summers, by Stephen King<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is not yet on BARD but I suspect it will soon be available.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sandy<o:p></o:p></p>
<h4 style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#006600"><a href="https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB98728"><span lang="EN">The red lotus</span> DB98728</a><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Bohjalian, Chris </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Reading time:
12 hours, 3 minutes.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Rebecca Lowman</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
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<span style="background:white">Mystery and Detective Stories</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">After six months of dating, Alexis and Austin go on a Vietnam bike tour so that Austin can pay his respects to the place where his father and uncle fought in the war. But as Alexis waits for him to return from a solo ride, Austin
vanishes into thin air. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">I am not sure who first suggested this book.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h4 style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#006600"><a href="https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB100054"><span lang="EN">The splendid and the vile: a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance
during the Blitz </span>DB100054</a><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Larson, Erik </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Reading time:
17 hours, 51 minutes.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Erik Larson</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
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<span style="background:white">Bestsellers</span><br>
<span style="background:white">World History and Affairs</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">The author of Dead Wake (DB 80936) describes Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz. He examines this dark year of London's history primarily through the domestic drama of Churchill and his family's day-to-day experiences.
Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John<o:p></o:p></p>
<h4 style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#006600"><a href="https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB100586">The evening and the morning DB100586</a><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Follett, Ken. Reading time: 24 hours, 21 minutes.<br>
Read by John Lee.<br>
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Religious Fiction<br>
Suspense Fiction<br>
Historical Fiction<br>
Human Relations<br>
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England, 997. In the time of the Anglo-Saxon kings, Vikings rule the seas. A Norman noblewoman follows her new husband across the sea to her new home. A boat builder moves his family to safety, but doesn't fit in. And a monk dreams of a center of learning.
Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2020.<br>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="color:black">John I am still looking for questions</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h4 style="background:white"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#006600"><a href="https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB100020"><span lang="EN">Answer Creek</span> DB100020</a><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Sweeney, Ashley E </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Reading
time: 11 hours, 54 minutes.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Jessica Wortham</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
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<span style="background:white">Historical Fiction</span><br>
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<span style="background:white">1846. Ada loses her parents to the dangers of traveling west to California. She decides to continue on with the Donner party. But misfortune follows the group, and Ada faces hard choices about what she needs to do to survive.
Violence and strong language. 2020.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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