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Wednesday
January
18, 2012
6pm |
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What It's Like to
Go to War
Karl Merlantes
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Personal and candid look at how
poorly prepared our soldiers are for the psychological and
spiritual aspects of war. |
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Wednesday
February
15, 2012
6pm |
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Lost In Shangri-La:
A True Story of Survival, Adventure and the
Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
Mitchell Zuckoff
Place Hold |
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Three injured survivors of a
plane crash find themselves lost in a jungle without food
while
nursing terrible wounds and trying to elude Japanese snipers. |
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Wednesday
March 21,
2012
6pm |
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Moonwalking
with Einstein:
The Art and Science of Remembering
Everything
Joshua Foer
Place Hold |
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Intriguing look at the nature of
memory and the idea that we don't need to acquire a better
memory; we just need to use the one we have more
effectively. |
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Wednesday
April 18,
2012
6pm |
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Maphead:
Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
Ken Jennings
Place Hold |
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Charming, funny, and
informational book about the world of maps and the people
who love them. |
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Wednesday
May 16,
2012
6pm |
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History of the World in
100 Objects:
Neil MacGregor
Place Hold |
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Examination of one hundred
man-made artifacts, each of which gives us an intimate
glimpse of an unexpected turning point in human
civilization. |
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Wednesday
June 13,
2012
6pm |
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Those Guys Have All the
Fun:
Inside the World of ESPN
James Andrew Miller, Tom Shales
Place Hold |
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The men and women
who made ESPN great reveal the secrets behind
its success-as well as the scandals, rivalries,
off-screen battles and triumphs that have
accompanied the rise of the network. |
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Wednesday
July 18,
2012
6pm |
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The Information:
A History, a Theory, a Flood
James Gleick
Place Hold |
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Revealing chronicle shows how information has become the modern
era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the
vital principle of our world. |
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Wednesday
August 15,
2012
6pm |
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The
Great Sea:
A Human
History of the Mediterranean
David Abulafia
Place Hold |
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The sea - its importance for
transport and sustenance; its role in the rise and fall of
empires; and the cast of characters--sailors, merchants,
migrants, pirates, pilgrims--who have crossed and recrossed
it. |
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Wednesday
September
19, 2012
6pm |
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| Biographical tale is
instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons
about innovation, character, leadership, and values. |
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Wednesday
October
17, 2012
6pm |
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Biographical story
of family and friendship, and above all an ode
to Keaton's complicated, adage-wielding mother,
who harbored her own dreams of a bigger life.
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Wednesday
November
14, 2012
6pm |
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Catherine the Great:
Portrait of a Woman
Robert K. Massie
Place Hold |
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| The story of an
obscure German princess who traveled to
Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the
most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women
in history. |
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December 2012 |
No Meeting |
Happy Holidays! |
