Marion Library History Club

Our next meeting is Thursday, November 14, 3:30pm at the Heritage Center. We will discuss A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons by Elizabeth Downing Taylor and Annette Gordon-Reed.

And then on January 9 we will discuss The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson.

Below is a list of titles for you to explore. They vary greatly in subject, price, and length. Let's plan to pick at least a few after our discussion on Thursday so we can better plan our winter reading.

See you Thursday!

Denise

Leftover Nominations from Last Round:

Christmas Trees Lit the Sky: Growing up in WWII Germany by Anneliese Heider (2012)

Library Availability: 14 copies

bookfinder.com lowest price: $15.91

234 pages

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

by Amity Shlaes

(2008)

Library Availability: 9 copies, 4 LP copies, 1 CD
Amazon lowest price: $3.77
512 pages

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (2005)

Library Availability: 3 copies, 1 CD

bookfinder.com lowest price: $3.95
768 pages

New Nominations:

12 Years a Slav e by Solomon Northrup (1853)

Library Availability: 3 copies
bookfinder.com lowest price: $6.99

Amazon Kindle edition: $.99
152 pages

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe by Thomas Cahill (1995)

Library Availability: 2 copies
bookfinder.com lowest price: $3.48

245 pages

The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization by Jonathan Lyons (2009)

Library Availability: 1 copy
bookfinder.com lowest price: $8.59

248 pages

The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One...by Simon Winchester (2013)

Library Availability: 2 copies
bookfinder.com lowest price: $17.66

496 pages

One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson (2013)

Library Availability: 10 copies, but many are Quick Picks, 1 CD, 1 playaway
bookfinder.com lowest price: $17.50
528 pages

Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant by Paul Clemens

(2011)

Library Availability: 1 copy
bookfinder.com lowest price: $3.48
288 pages

The Secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish: My Life in Churchill's Secret Army by Noreen Riols (2013)

Library Availability: None, at this time
bookfinder.com lowest price: $15.98
324 pages

Skull in the Ashes: Murder, a Gold Rush Manhunt, and the Birth of Circumstantial Evidence in America by Peter Kaufman (2013)

Library Availability: 3 copies
bookfinder.com lowest price: $15.68
298 pages

Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination by Joyce Appleby (2013)

Library Availability: 1 copy
bookfinder.com lowest price: $18.52
320 pages

The Twilight Years: The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars by Richard Overy (2009)

Library Availability: 1 copy
bookfinder.com lowest price: $3.48
521 pages

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan (2006)

Library Availability: 4 copies, 1 playaway, 1 ebook
bookfinder.com lowest price: $3.48
340 pages