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Monday, June 22, 2020
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
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Despite growing up near Detroit, spending a decade of my life in Chicago, then spending another 16 years in the American South (Texas and...
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Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Terms and Conditions: I Am SO GLAD I Never Went to Boarding School
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I grew up in a very dull middle-class Midwestern suburb, so I traveled the world vicariously through books. I adored reading anything s...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015
Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War by Alan Allport
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The other day, I was working at the circulation desk at the library, and a patron returned a book that I really want to read, River of ...
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Saturday, August 2, 2014
Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson
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About one million British men were killed during WWI -- and another 2 million wounded, almost 35% of their total forces. A disproporti...
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