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History Book Discussion Group (Currently Meeting on Zoom)
The History Book Club meets on the second Monday of the month at 7:00 on Zoom. All readers are welcome to join. The Library works to provide copies of the books being discussed. Copies of the current selection are available at the front desk. You must email Dana Semeraro to get the Zoom link dssemeraro@gmail.com.
August 13 & September 10 Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
October 8 & November 12 The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women in the CIA by Liza Mundy
December 10 & January14 The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics and the End of the Jazz Age by Michael Wolraich
Previous titles:
New England at 400, Empress of the Nile , Creating Connecticut:, American Nations, Napoleon and Wellington, Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Siste, by Jung Chang, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel, by Kati Marton, October: The Story of the Russian Revolution, by China Mieville, London: The Biography, by Peter Ackroyd, Hemingway's Hurricane, Goering's Man in Paris, Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich 1945-1955, Kingdom of Characters, The Splendid and the Vile, The Empire of Pain, The Man Who Ran Washington, Trail of Tears, The Bomber Mafia,The Quiet Americans, The Battle of Stonington, The State of Jones, The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street, The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution, A Woman of No Importance, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, The Invention of Nature, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, by Maria Rosa Menocal, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, by Edward E. Baptist, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, by George Packer
The MNL 100 Books Club
The 100 Books Club is for all of us who have not (yet) read all of those titles on The NY Times list of the 100 best books of the 21st century.
The club will give us a chance to not only read all (or most!) of them, but to kibbutz about their worthiness to be on such a list.
We have a core group who are interested, and are sending this eblast to see if others among us are also interested in joining.
We will plan to meet monthly at the library. Our organizational meeting will be Monday, September 23 at 5:30.
RSVP to cbradley@mysticnoanklibrary.org if you plan to join us.
