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• The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

  Egan, Dan,

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  May 2025 pick.

• How to Be Perfect

  the Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

  Schur, Michael, 1975-

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  April 2025 pick.

• Girly Drinks

  a World History of Women and Alcohol

  O'meara, Mallory

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  March 2025 pick.

• Never Caught

  the Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

  Dunbar, Erica Armstrong,

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  February 2025 pick.

• The Secret History of Home Economics

  How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

  Dreilinger, Danielle,

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  January 2025 pick. This book generated more discussion than usual as people discovered that Home Ec isn't just the class most of us took in junior high. From the origins of the discipline as a hard science that was accessible to women, to racial…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Entangled Life

  How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

  Sheldrake, Merlin

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  December 2024 pick. There are so many uses for fungi! We were super interested in using fungi to grow building materials, as well as the ones that can be trained to consume materials that can't be processed.

• A Game of Birds and Wolves

  the Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II

  Parkin, Simon,

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  November 2024 pick. This book told the story of WWII's Battle of the Atlantic, where German U-Boats attempted to starve the UK by sinking merchant marine ships of food and supplies.

• The Devil in the White City

  Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

  Larson, Erik, 1954-

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  October 2024 pick. This classic of historical true crime wasn't as much about true crime as we thought! The book focused more on the White City itself, including all the big personalities that contributed to its design and construction. The titular…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Storyteller

  Tales of Life and Music

  Grohl, David

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  September 2024 pick. This memoir came up at an interesting time - about a week before we met, Grohl announced his infidelity to his wife, which contradicts the book's efforts to portray him as the "Nicest Guy in Rock." We had a great discussion…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Taste

  My Life Through Food

  Tucci, Stanley

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  August 2024 pick. Part memoir, part recipe book - and we even tried some of the recipes! The club decided that food was a great hook to hang one's life story on. After all, we all have memories and stories associated with food and particular…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Spirit Run

  a 6,000-mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land

  Álvarez, Noé,

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  July 2024 pick. This book straddled a line between memoir and a history of the Peace and Dignity Run that the author went on.

• The Art Thief

  a True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

  Finkel, Michael

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  June 2024 pick. This book starts out slow, but it's hard to put down for long. It's just so bizarre - and then the ending might have you in tears if you love cultural history.

• Where the Deer and the Antelope Play

  the Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside

  Offerman, Nick, 1970-

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  May 2024 pick. This book surprised those of us who found it in the humor section! Nick Offerman may be famous for Parks and Rec, but this book is a surprisingly deep take on the importance of living in harmony with the land in practices from farming…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When

  the Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

  Pink, Daniel H.

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  April 2024 pick. We took a break from the heavy academic-leaning books we'd been reading for this pop science look at how timing changes our lives. Questions about when we each have energy, when is the best time to schedule a doctors appointment,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Invisible Women

  Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

  Criado-Perez, Caroline

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  March 2024 pick. This book was full of insights into our world that had, as the title implies, just been invisible to most of us. This book doesn't require you to read every page to participate in the discussion, and every section has a new,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Koshersoul

  the Faith and Food Journey of An African American Jew

  Twitty, Michael W., 1977-

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  February 2024 pick. A gay black Jewish man ushers us into the intersections between his identities and how they meet on the table. This book requires a bit of background knowledge of Judaism to be fully appreciated, and leaned more academic than…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cultish

  the Language of Fanaticism

  Montell, Amanda,

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  January 2024 pick. This book shows how subtle changes in language can quickly cultivate an us-vs-them mentality, and shows examples in everything from religious communes to political groups to MLMs and workout programs. None of us are immune to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Braiding Sweetgrass

  Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

  Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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  November 2023 pick. This book was part of Great Lakes Bay Read project, in which the library system spent a school year exploring Indigenous and Native American cultural practices and writing. This book was a slow read, but very worth it. The blend…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• From Here to Eternity

  Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

  Doughty, Caitlin

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  October 2023 pick. This book comes up over and over again in discussions. Chosen because of the author's compelling YouTube channel about death and dying, this book looks at the practices around death and grieving for several different cultures,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Is Your Mind on Plants

  Pollan, Michael

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  September 2023 pick. The librarian who picked this (and the one writing this) really thought this was similar to Pollan's other books about food. It was... not. We had a great discussion about consciousness altering substances, their history,…Read moreRead more of this annotation