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Last Word Book Discussions
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Stimulating book discussions facilitated by local authors and literary volunteers. Meetings alternate between the Southdale Library and Barnes & Noble, Galleria bookstore. Facilitators 106 listings found. Displaying 1 - 20 |
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2013 Connelly, Michael, 1956- The Black Echo For LAPD homicide cop Harry Bosch, hero, maverick, nighthawk, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal. 1992 Adult Fiction Book |
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2013 Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995 Those Who Walk Away "The honeymoon is over, as they say, the bride dead by her own hand. Ray Garrett, the grieving husband, convinces the police in Rome of his innocence, but not his thuggish father-in-law, an American painter named Ed Coleman, who shoots him at point-blank range and leaves him for dead. Ray survives, however, and follows Coleman to Venice, where the two fall into an eerie game of cat-and-mouse--Coleman obsessed with vengeance and Ray equally insistent on clearing his conscience, though each is at once the hunter and the hunted in a duel composed of tension, hiding, and guessing, and at times punctuated by violence that, even as each manages to walk away, draws them nearer to death."--P. [4] of cover. 1988 Adult Fiction Book |
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2013 Skloot, Rebecca, 1972- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells -- taken without her knowledge -- became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks is buried in an unmarked grave. Her family did not learn of her "immortality" until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. The story of the Lacks family is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of--From publisher description. 2010 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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2013 Skurnick, Lizzie Shelf Discovery : Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading 2009 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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2013 Smith, Alexis M. Glaciers : a Novel "Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. 'Glaciers' follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fixes her computer, and dreams of the perfect vintage dress move over a backdrop of deteriorating urban architecture and the imminent loss of the glaciers she knew as a young girl in Alaska."--Front cover flap. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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2012 Kooser, Ted. Delights & Shadows : Poems 2004 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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2012 Pancake, Ann. Strange as this Weather Has Been : a Novel 2007 Adult Fiction Book |
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2012 Prcic, Ismet Shards "Ismet Prcic s brilliant, provocative, and propulsively energetic debut is about a young Bosnian, also named Ismet Prcic, who has fled his war-torn homeland and is now struggling to reconcile his past with his present life in California. He is advised that in order to make peace with the corrosive guilt he harbors over leaving behind his family behind, he must “write everything.” The result is a great rattlebag of memories, confessions, and fictions: sweetly humorous recollections of Ismet s childhood in Tuzla appear alongside anguished letters to his mother about the challenges of life in this new world. As Ismet s foothold in the present falls away, his writings are further complicated by stories from the point of view of another young man real or imagined named Mustafa, who joined a troop of elite soldiers and stayed in Bosnia to fight. When Mustafa s story begins to overshadow Ismet s new-world identity, the reader is charged with piecing together the fragments of a life that has become eerily unrecognizable, even to the one living it. Shards is a thrilling read a harrowing war story, a stunningly inventive coming of age, and a heartbreaking saga of a splintered family." --P.[2] cover. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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2011 Adiga, Aravind. The White Tiger : a Novel Facilitator: Kathryn Kysar, Local poet and author. 2008 Adult Fiction Book |
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2011 Cleave, Chris. Little Bee Facilitator: Sujata Massey, Author of "Rei Shimura" mystery series. 2009 Adult Fiction Book |
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2011 Egan, Jennifer. A Visit from the Goon Squad Facilitator: Mary Rockcastle, Wang Ping & Julie Schumacher, Local authors. 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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2011 Farrey, Brian With or Without You Facilitator: Swati Avasthi, Local author. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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2011 Grahame, Kenneth, 1859-1932. The Wind in the Willows Facilitator: Faith Sullivan, Best selling local author. 2005 Children's Fiction Book |
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2011 McCann, Colum, 1965- Let the Great World Spin : a Novel Facilitator: Al Naylor, Community volunteer. 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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2011 Nesb?, Jo, 1960- The Redbreast Facilitator: Brian Freeman, Local Author. 2006 Adult Fiction Book |
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2011 Sedaris, David. When You Are Engulfed in Flames Facilitator: Eric Dregni, Local author. 2008 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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2010 Egan, Timothy The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Facilitator: Mark Seeley, Minnesota State Climatologist 2006 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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2010 Hammett, Dashiell The Maltese Falcon Facilitator: David Housewright, Edgar Award-winning mystery author 1989 Adult Fiction Book |
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2010 Harding, Paul Tinkers Facilitator: Brigitte Frase, Poet and critic for Star Tribune 2009 Adult Fiction Book |
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2010 Hughes, Richard Arthur Warren A High Wind in Jamaica Facilitator: Lynn Jonell, Children's author and Loft instructor 1999 Adult Fiction Book |
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