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Winter
2020 Reading List
A
MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT by David Baldacci
BECOMING
by Michelle Obama
BEFORE
WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate
BLUE
MOON by Lee Child
CRISS
CROSS by James Patterson
DEAR
EDWARD by Ann Napolitano
EDUCATED
by Tara Westover
LONG
BRIGHT RIVER by Liz Moore
LOST
by James Patterson
OLIVE,
AGAIN by Elizabeth Strout
RUNNING
AGAINST THE DEVIL by Rick Wilson
SAPIENS
by Yuval Noah Harari
SUCH
A FUN AGE by Kiley Reid
TALKING
TO STRANGERS by Malcolm Gladwell
THE
DUTCH HOUSE by Ann Patchett
THE
GIVER OF STARS by Jojo Moyes
THE
GUARDIANS by John Grisham
THE
INSTITUTE by Stephen King
THE
LAST WISH by Andrzej Sapkowski
THE
OUTSIDER by Stephen King
THE
SILENT PATIENT by Alex Michaelides
THE
TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ by Heather Morris
YOU
by Caroline Kepnes
SOURCE:
NY Times Bestseller Lists
1/26/2020
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Winter
2020 Featured Book
A
Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
A
Gentleman in Moscow is the utterly entertaining second
novel from the author of Rules of Civility. Amor Towles skillfully
transports us to The Metropol, the famed Moscow hotel where
movie stars and Russian royalty hobnob, where Bolsheviks plot
revolutions and intellectuals discuss the merits of contemporary
Russian writers, where spies spy, thieves thieve and the danger
of twentieth century Russia lurks outside its marbled walls.
It’s also where wealthy Count Alexander Rostov lives
under house arrest for a poem deemed incendiary by the Bolsheviks,
and meets Nina. Nina is a precocious and wide-eyed young girl
who holds the keys to the entire hotel, wonders what it means
to be a princess, and will irrevocably change his life. Despite
being confined to the hallway of the hotel, the Count lives
an absorbing, adventure-filled existence, filled with capers,
conspiracies and culture. Alexander Rostov is a character
for the ages--like Kay Thompson’s Eloise and Wes Anderson’s
M. Gustav, he is unflinchingly (and hilariously for readers)
devoted to his station, even when forced to wait tables, play
hide and seek with a young girl, or confront communism. Towles
magnificently conjures the grandeur of the Russian hotel and
the vibrancy of the characters that call it home. --Al Woodworth,
The Amazon Book Review
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Summer
2020 Reading List
ALL ADULTS
HERE by Emma Straub
AMERICAN DIRT by Jeanine Cummins
BIG SUMMER by Jennifer Weiner
BOMBSHELL by Stuart Woods and Parnell Hall
BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah
CAMINO WINDS by John Grisham
CITY OF GIRLS by Elizabeth Gilbert
FAIR WARNING by Michael Connelly
GRIT by Angela Duckworth
HIDEAWAY by Nora Roberts
IF IT BLEEDS by Stephen King
LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE by Celeste Ng
NORMAL PEOPLE by Sally Rooney
THE BODY
KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk
THE GREAT
INFLUENZA by John M. Barry
THE HENNA
ARTIST by Alka Joshi
THE OVERSTORY
by Richard Powers
UNTAMED
by Glennon Doyle
WALK THE
WIRE by David Baldacci
WHERE
THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens
WHITE
FRAGILITY by Robin DiAngelo
SOURCE:
NY Times Bestseller Lists
6/14/2020
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Summer
2020 Featured Book
Grandma
Gatewood's Walk
by Ben Montgomery
Emma
Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left
her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less
than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her,
this genteel, farm-reared, sixty-seven-year-old great-grandmother
had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail.
By September 1955 she stood atop Maine’s Mount Katahdin,
sang “America, the Beautiful,” and proclaimed,
“I said I’ll do it, and I’ve done it.”
Driven
by a painful marriage, Grandma Gatewood not only hiked the
trail alone, she was the first person—man or woman—to
walk it twice and three times. At age seventy-one, she hiked
the 2,000-mile Oregon Trail. Gatewood became a hiking celebrity,
and appeared on TV with Groucho Marx and Art Linkletter.
The public attention she brought to the trail was unprecedented.
Her vocal criticism of the lousy, difficult stretches led
to bolstered maintenance, and very likely saved the trail
from extinction.
Author
Ben Montgomery interviewed surviving family members and
hikers Gatewood met along the trail, unearthed historic
newspaper and magazine articles, and was given full access
to Gatewood’s own diaries, trail journals, and correspondence.
Grandma Gatewood’s Walk shines a fresh light on one
of America’s most celebrated hikers.
SOURCE:
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