The ballot results for 2017
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SUGGESTED BY
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TITLE
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NUMBER OF VOTES
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SALLY
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The Boston Girl
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8
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The Nightingale
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1
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AMY
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News of the World
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6
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On the Beach
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3
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Deborah
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Hillbilly Elegy
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4
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Hidden Figures
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5
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Julia
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The Astronauts’ Wives Club
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5
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Hellhound on his Trail
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4
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Barbara
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Girl Waits with Gun
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5
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In the Bleak Midwinter
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4
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Jenny
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Shalimar the Clown
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5
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The Undoing Project
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4
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Sherri
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How Reading Changed my Life
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5
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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
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4
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Susie
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The Nest
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5
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My Grandmother Told Me…
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4
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Tina
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Irena’s Children
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7
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Spilled Milk
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2
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Past recent books:
June 1
Girl Waits with Gun
Novel
by Amy Stewart
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist comes an enthralling novel based on the forgotten, true story of one of the US's first female deputy sheriffs.
Constance Kopp doesn’t quite fit the mould. She towers over most men, has no interest in marriage or domestic affairs, and has been isolated from the world since a family secret sent her and her sisters from the city to the country fifteen years before. When a powerful, ruthless factory owner runs down their buggy, a dispute over damages turns into a war of bricks, bullets, and threats as he unleashes his gang on their farm. The sheriff enlists her help, and it turns out that Constance has a knack for outwitting (and disarming) the criminal element, which might just take her back out into the world and onto a new path in life.
Through Amy Stewart’s exuberant storytelling, Constance Kopp catapults from a forgotten historical anecdote to an unforgettable historical-fiction heroine — an outsized woman not only ahead of her time, but sometimes even ahead of ours
Thursday, April 6
6:45 pm
The Boston Girl: A Novel
by Anita Diamant
Thursday, March 2nd 6:45 pm
An Improbable Friendship, by Anthony David (non-fiction)
suggested by Tina
A dual biography of Israeli Ruth Dayan and Palestinian journalist Raymonda Tawil and their surprising and secret 40 year friendship.
We had a wonderful middle-eastern dinner at Casablanca.
Thursday February 2nd
We discussed -
The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri (fiction)
suggested by Barbara
This is a family saga moving from the 1960s to the present, from India to America and across generations.
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