Forget all that nonsense about the Dos Equis commercial dude being the most interesting man. The most interesting person in the world is Simon Winchester; he’s been almost everywhere and knows almost everyone.
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Category: Reading: 4 Stars
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Tookie is a young Native American woman who makes a bad decision in an effort to help some friends and finds it was a much more serious matter than she knew.
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The End of Everything by Katie Mack
How will the universe end? Will it collapse back in on itself in a reversal of the Big Bang (the Big Crunch theory)? Will it continue to expand even when all the stars are gone (the Heat Death theory)? Will there be a dark energy apocalypse (the Big Rip theory)? Or something completely different?
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The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
In 1921 Elsa Wolcott was dismissed by her family as “‘too’ everything – too tall, too thin, too pale, too unsure of herself”. Eventually she finds her voice, raises her family in the kids of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
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Bucking the Sun by Ivan Doig
n 1938 a Ford truck is hauled from the bottom of the Missouri River; two bodies – a man and a woman – are found inside the truck. Interestingly enough, they are Duffs but are not husband and wife. We aren’t told who they are… Continue reading…
