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Join us the 2nd Wednesday of the month to share favorite books, authors, or series. Literary Salon is a no-rules book club where you bring whatever you're reading to a round of interested listeners. You are welcome to come and be a listener, too. Ten readers shared the following 17 books in July. Please join us at the next Lit Salon on Wednesday, August 14th at 5pm. Check lopezlibrary.org or email Beth for current information. Happy Summer Reading!
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Etiquette & espionage
by Gail Carriger
In an alternate England of 1851, fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where she is suprised to learn not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit, and espionage.
First in the Finishing School series.
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Saturday night at the Lakeside Supper club : a novel
by J. Ryan Stradal
In the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, Mariel Prager and her husband Ned, who's having an identity crisis, lose almost everything they hold dear and unexpectedly find salvation in their failing business—the Lakeside Supper Club.
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The lager queen of Minnesota
by J. Ryan Stradal
A talented baker running a business out of her nursing home reconnects with her master brewer sister at the same time that her pregnant granddaughter launches an IPA brewpub.
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Kitchens of the great Midwest
by J. Ryan Stradal
Raised with a sophisticated palate by her single father, Eva learns the culturally rich stories behind a series of Midwestern dishes while becoming the star chef at a legendary restaurant.
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The sisterhood : the secret history of women at the CIA
by Liza Mundy
In this thrilling new perspective on history, the New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls turns her attention the women of the CIA who fought to become operatives, transformed spy craft and provided the data analysis that helped track down Bin Laden in his Pakistani compound.
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Summer Island : a novel
by Kristin Hannah
Struggling comedienne Ruby Bridge confronts the legacy of her famous mother's abandonment as a scandalous secret from the past of Nora Bridge, now a famed radio talk-show host and syndicated columnist known for her moral advice, draws the two women together in a reunion that transforms both their lives.
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The girl who sang to the buffalo : a child, an elder, and the light from an ancient sky
by Kent Nerburn
"In this moving finale to the trilogy that began with Neither Wolf Nor Dog, Kent Nerburn blends history, humor, and heartbreak with a gripping mystery. Once again he visits the Dakota elder Dan and joins in the quest to understand the fate of Dan's little sister, Yellow Bird, a girl with a mystical relationship to animals who disappeared into the Indian boarding school system. Delving beneath the myths, misconceptions, and stereotypes that make up so much of our understanding of Native life, Nerburn finds a world that "beats with a different and indomitable heartbeat." Readers are swept up into a great story of the awe-inspiring communion of human, animal, and nature that underlies the many things we can learn from our land's native people"
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Mr. Texas
by Lawrence Wright
After his heroic actions make the evening news, rancher Sonny Lamb, a laughingstock in his town, is asked to run for his West Texas district's seat in the state legislature, and against his better judgment, throws his hat in the ring in an attempt to pursue goodness in the Lonestar State.
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Expose Yourself: How to Take Risks, Question Everything, and Find Yourself
by Erin Louis
As an under clothed and unlikely voice of reason, I offer this book promoting critical thinking and self-confidence using anecdotes and analogies from my career as a stripper. Dancing naked isn't always about rolling around in a pile of dollar bills, and it gave me a unique perspective on humanism, sexuality, and logic. Life lessons that I don't think I would have learned working behind a desk. But no worries dear reader, you don't need to get naked to learn these lessons yourself, I've already done that for you.
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The making of another major motion picture masterpiece
by Tom Hanks
The Academy Award-winning actor and bestselling author presents a thought-provoking novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film based on a series of comic books that depict the changes in America and American culture since WWII. Illustrations.
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The covenant of water : a novel
by Abraham Verghese
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, and set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, an epic of love, faith and medicine follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning.
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The ministry of time
by Kaliane Bradley
To establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time, a“bridge” who lives with, assists and monitors the expat known as“1847” or Commander Graham Gore, falls fervently in love, with consequences she never could've imagined—ones that could change the future.
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The women
by Kristin Hannah
In 1965, nursing student Frankie McGrath, after hearing the words“Women can be heroes, too,” impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows her brother to Vietnam where she is overwhelmed by the destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America.
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Wild bread : sourdough reinvented : flour + water + air
by MaryJane Butters
Is the world ready to rethink bread making? MaryJane Butters thinks so. Wild Bread completely reinvents the concept of healthier-for-you, naturally fermented sourdough. Until now, sourdough was perceived as too much work and sour-tasting, artisan-style-only loaves. In Wild Bread, her quick and easy 1 minute 2x/day technique demonstrates the use of eight different types of flours for each bread featured--everything from gluten-free brown-rice flour to quinoa to common white to heirloom whole wheat--for a whopping 295 recipes and 475 photographs. Using her step-by-step method, every style of bread imaginable, including gluten-free, will loft with wild abandon without the purchase of a single packet of not-so-healthy, store-bought yeast. In nutritionally superior wild-yeast bread, fermentation triggers the release of vital nutrients and breaks down carbohydrates. In MaryJane's world, there's no such thing as too much bread because once you convert to slow-rise wild-bread making, that bagel you've been thinking about is more like a vitamin pill than a source of "carb-loaded" guilt. Lessons gleaned from MaryJane Butters' diverse pioneering background, from carpenter to dairy owner to former wilderness ranger turned organic farmer, led her eventually to stewardship of the 4-story, historic Barron Flour Mill. It was only natural that her years spent living on remote Forest Service fire-watch towers with only a living, breathing sourdough "mother" for companionship would lead her to write a pioneering wild-yeastbread book. She is the author of eight books; editor of MaryJanesFarm magazine, now in its 18th year of publication; and lives on an organic farm in Idaho. Two of her grown children and their spouses are employed full-time at her farm and she is "Nanny" to half a dozen grandchildren.
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