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His eye is on the sparrow/bottom line

It starts to seem like the chorus of a song: "I sure am lucky to work in a public library." I think I declare this at least once a week, usually when I meet with my Nevermore Book Club on Tuesdays. This last Tuesday was no exception.

My "job" for my book club is to read something--or, more often, some things--and then show up and talk about it. When there are multiple books, I like to have a themat Read more of this blog post »
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The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber
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1493 by Charles C. Mann
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Another fortunate stumble at the public library -- right after returning the author's 1491. here Mann presents the "Columbian Exchange" of biostuff that transformed the earth into a new era, the "homogenocene," in which the former oceanic barriers to ...more
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Women of the French Revolution by Linda Kelly
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After years and years of running across such names as Mme. Roland, Olympe de Gouges, and the Comtesse de La Tour du Pin, it is very nice now to know their stories. One thing is certain: the French Revolution did nothing for the civic rights of women. ...more
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The Story of the Jews by Simon Schama
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In equal parts inspiring and heartbreaking, this book conveys through documentary and archeological examination the richness and variety of Jewish belief and culture through their expulsion from the Iberian peninsula at the dawn of the age of Western ...more
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Capitalism by Sven Beckert
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I had a feeling, somehow, that I'd run into him in this book: James Pitot, my father's mother's forebear, the third mayor of American New Orleans.

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Especially given that it happened in bucolic east Tennessee, the heartland of country music, 150 years ago this book might've been a ballad: Killed by the Kingston Krud. It's still possible that some contemporary artist will lend his or her talents t ...more
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I had a feeling, somehow, that I'd run into him in this book: James Pitot, my father's mother's forebear, the third mayor of American New Orleans.

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“Librarian: taking the E.T. out of Libertarian.”
― Jud Barry

“I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from going gaga.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“Librarian: taking the E.T. out of Libertarian.”
― Jud Barry

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