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"Such a wonderful read..at times it brings me nearly to tears. It is deep & funny & has great descriptions of people & places & birds & animals." — Jul 07, 2026 07:23PM
"Such a wonderful read..at times it brings me nearly to tears. It is deep & funny & has great descriptions of people & places & birds & animals." — Jul 07, 2026 07:23PM
The Plague
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How to conjure up a picture, for instance, of a town
A soul less place without life
“It is much easier to explain or elaborate on endings than on beginnings. For endings, you can always say that it ended this way because it had begun that way. Or it ended that way because something popped up in the middle that led there. Beginnings have more amorphous origins.”
― We're Alone: Essays
― We're Alone: Essays
“Baldwin replied, “Witness to whence I came, where I am. Witness to what I’ve seen and the possibilities that I think I see.”
― We're Alone: Essays
― We're Alone: Essays
“He stood out even then as a person not to be treated lightly, as a being with resources of spirit if not of fortune.”
― This Is Where the Serpent Lives
― This Is Where the Serpent Lives
“As we reach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration, we are embroiled in increasingly polarized debates over policies ranging from healthcare and housing to immigration and the role of religion in our society. One way to restore stability to our politics is to look at issues through the two ideals that are at the heart of the Declaration’s key sentence: common ground and the pursuit of the American Dream.”
― The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
― The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
“To be a citizen of a troubled postcolonial nation gave a person gravitas. To be holding out against the crass new world gave a man gravitas. To be wounded yet fighting on against the barbarians gave one gravitas. To be exiled, abandoned by love and luck, gave them gravitas. What happened within a family, what happened between a couple, was no different from that which happened in a nation under dictatorship, running on fear.”
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Ask Austin Kleon - Thursday, March 13th!
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Join us on Thursday, March 13th, for a special discussion with author Austin Kleon! The author will be discussing his book Show Your Work. Become a f ...more
History, Medicine, and Science: Nonfiction and Fiction
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Discussion about the fascinating stories of our scientific and medical past
Medical Comics & Graphicpathographies
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"Comics" can be "weighty" and "complex", mainly when it comes to "Science" and "Medicine". This is because combining the “precise scientific” text wit ...more
Doctors Book Club
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DoctorsBookClub is a book club for doctors – an out-of- hospital hobby. Designed primarily for physicians but welcome to all, DoctorsBookClub is an on ...more
The Librarian's Husband's Book Club
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I was born into a world of books. With a school librarian wife, a history teacher father, and an elementary teacher mother—plus my own background as a ...more
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