Book Club II
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Book Club II in June: The Book of Job
Event Date:The Book of Job is regarded as a poetic masterpiece, exploring a range of themes.
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'Presumed Innocent' by Scott Thurow
Event Date:A 1987 classic, cited as the gold standard of modern legal thrillers.
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'North Woods' by Daniel Mason
Event Date:The secret of North Woods by Daniel Mason, its blending of the comic and the sublime, lies in the way Mason deftly manages to do both. A hint: Little House on the Prairie it is not.
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'Seabiscuit' by Laura Hillenbrand
Event Date:'Seabiscuit' by Laura Hillenbrand
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'Growing Up' by Russell Baker
Event Date:Growing Up by Russell Baker.
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'Bleak House' by Charles Dickens
Event Date:Bleak House by Charles Dickens.
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Book Club II in December
Event Date:When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut. "A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining."
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Fourth Friday Book Club in December
Event Date:The customary November 4th Friday is the Thanksgiving weekend. Unless otherwise noted, we will meet Friday, December 5th.
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Event Date:Selection:
James by Percival Everett
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Fourth Friday Book Club in September
Event Date:The Fourth Friday Book Club will discuss An Unfinished Love Story by Doris Kearns Goodwin when the group meets via Zoom on September 26.
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Fourth Friday Book Club in August
Event Date:The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Fourth Friday Book Club in July
Event Date:Still Life by Louise Penny.
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Fourth Friday Book Club in June
Event Date:H is for Hawk: A Memoir on Grief and Falconry by Helen Macdonald, published 2016.
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Fourth Friday Book Club in May
Event Date:I, Claudius by English writer Robert Graves, published in 1934, will be up for discussion when UMRA's Fourth Friday Book Club meets via Zoom on May 23.
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Fourth Friday Book Club April 25
Event Date:The Black Count: Glory and Betrayal by Tom Reiss, published in 2012 and winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in biography, will be the selection for discussion when UMRA’s Fourth Friday Book Club meets via Zoom at 2 p.m. on Friday, April 25. Newcomers are welcome.
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