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Nonfiction Book Group January 2017

November 30, 2016, 9:54 am
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A room of one's own by Virginia Woolf
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In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister: a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different.This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. But if only she had found the means to create, urges Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling. In this classic essay, Virginia Woolf takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the world around her and give a voice to those who have none.

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Nonfiction Book Group February 2017

December 27, 2016, 12:39 pm
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Dead presidents : an American adventure into the strange deaths and surprising afterlives of our nation's leaders by Brady Carlson
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In Dead Presidents, Carlson takes readers on an epic trip to presidential gravesites, monuments, and memorials from sea to shining sea. With an engaging mix of history and contemporary reporting, Carlson recounts the surprising origin stories of the Washington Monument, Mount Rushmore, Grant’s Tomb, and JFK’s Eternal Flame.

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Nonfiction Book Group March 2017

January 26, 2017, 11:45 am
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Stoned : jewelry, obsession, and how desire shapes the world by Aja Raden
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What moves the world is what moves each of us: desire. Jewelry—which has long served as a stand-in for wealth and power, glamor and success—has birthed cultural movements, launched political dynasties, and started wars. Masterfully weaving together pop science and history, Stoned explains what the diamond on your finger has to do with the GI Bill, why green-tinted jewelry has been exalted by so many cultures, why the glass beads that bought Manhattan for the Dutch were initially considered a fair trade, and how the French Revolution started over a coveted necklace.

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Nonfiction Book Group April 2017

February 27, 2017, 10:51 am
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The information : a history, a theory, a flood by James Gleick
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An eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa's talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs.

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Nonfiction Book Group May 2017

March 30, 2017, 4:16 pm
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The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary by Simon Winchester
Also available in: e-book | audiobook | large print

Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. Hidden within the rituals of its creation is the story of two remarkable men.

Professor James Murray was the distinguished editor of the OED project. Dr. William Chester Minor was one of thousands of contributors. Minor was remarkably prolific, sending thousands of neat, handwritten quotations from his home in the small village of Crowthorne, fifty miles from Oxford. On numerous occasions, Murray invited Minor to visit Oxford, but Murray's offer was regularly--and mysteriously--refused.

Finally, in 1896, after Minor had sent nearly ten thousand definitions to the dictionary, a puzzled Murray set out to visit him. It was then that Murray finally learned that Minor was a murderer locked up in Broadmoor, England's harshest asylum for criminal lunatics.

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Nonfiction Book Group June 2017

April 30, 2017, 10:49 am
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Oneida : from free love utopia to the well-set table by Ellen Wayland-Smith

Amid the fervor of the religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening, John Humphrey Noyes, a spirited but socially awkward young man, attracted a group of devoted followers with his fiery sermons about creating Jesus' millennial kingdom here on Earth. Noyes established a revolutionary community in rural New York centered around achieving a life free of sin through God's grace, while also espousing equality of the sexes and "complex marriage," a system of free love where sexual relations with multiple partners was encouraged. When the Community disbanded in 1880, the Oneida Community, Limited, would go on to become one of the nation's leading manufacturers of silverware, and their brand a coveted mark of middle-class respectability in pre- and post-WWII America.

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Nonfiction Book Group July 2017

May 30, 2017, 9:01 am
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The almost nearly perfect people : behind the myth of the Scandinavian utopia by Michael Booth
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Why are the Danes so happy, despite having the highest taxes? Do the Finns really have the best education system? Are the Icelanders as feral as they sometimes appear? How are the Norwegians spending their fantastic oil wealth? And why do all of them hate the Swedes? Michael Booth explains who the Scandinavians are, how they differ and why, and he explores why these societies have become so successful and models for the world. Along the way a more nuanced, often darker picture emerges of a region plagued by taboos, characterized by suffocating parochialism, and populated by extremists of various shades. They may very well be almost nearly perfect, but it isn't easy being Scandinavian.

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Nonfiction Book Group August 2017

June 28, 2017, 8:04 am
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Nonfiction Book Group September 2017

July 28, 2017, 11:18 am
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The inevitable : understanding the 12 technological forces that will shape our future by Kevin Kelly
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Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. In this fascinating, provocative new book, Kevin Kelly provides an optimistic road map for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives - from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture - can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces. Kelly both describes these deep trends:flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning - and demonstrates how they overlap and are codependent on one another. These larger forces will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate with each other. By understanding and embracing them, says Kelly, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits.

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Saturday, September 16 - 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM— Community Room
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Nonfiction Book Group 2017 Reading List

December 5, 2016, 3:09 pm
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Nonfiction Book Group October 2017

August 31, 2017, 12:47 pm
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An extraordinary time : the end of the postwar boom and the return of the ordinary economy by Marc Levinson
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Marc Levinson recounts the global collapse of the postwar economy in the 1970s. While economists struggle to return us to the high economic growth rates of the past, Levinson counterintuitively argues that the boom years of the 1950s and 1960s were an anomaly; slow economic growth is the norm-no matter what economists and politicians may say. Yet these atypical years left the public with unreasonable expectations of what government can achieve. When the economy failed to revive, suspicion of government and liberal institutions rose sharply, laying the groundwork for the political and economic polarization that we're still grappling with today.

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Saturday, October 21 - 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM— Community Room
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Nonfiction Book Group November 2017

October 5, 2017, 1:40 pm
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A history of the world in 6 glasses by Tom Standage
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the 21st century through the lens of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola. For Tom Standage, each drink is a kind of technology, a catalyst for advancing culture by which he demonstrates the intricate interplay of different civilizations. You may never look at your favorite drink the same way again.

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Saturday, November 18 - 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM— Community Room
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Nonfiction Book Group December 2017

November 2, 2017, 1:33 pm
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How to be a Tudor : a dawn-to-dusk guide to Tudor life by Ruth Goodman
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Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Tudor conditions, Goodman serves as our intrepid guide to sixteenth-century living. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this charming, illustrative work celebrates the ordinary lives of those who labored through the era. From sounding the "hue and cry" to alert a village to danger to malting grain for homemade ale, from the gruesome sport of bear-baiting to cuckolding and cross-dressing the madcap habits and revealing intimacies of life in the time of Shakespeare are vividly rendered.

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Saturday, December 16 - 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM— Community Room
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Nonfiction Book Group 2018 Reading List

December 4, 2017, 1:54 pm
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Nonfiction Book Group January 2018

November 29, 2017, 9:53 am
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Blink : the power of thinking without thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
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Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work--in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom?

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Saturday, January 20 - 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM— Offsite
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Nonfiction Book Group May 2017

March 30, 2017, 4:16 pm
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The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary by Simon Winchester
Also available in: e-book | audiobook | large print

Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. Hidden within the rituals of its creation is the story of two remarkable men.

Professor James Murray was the distinguished editor of the OED project. Dr. William Chester Minor was one of thousands of contributors. Minor was remarkably prolific, sending thousands of neat, handwritten quotations from his home in the small village of Crowthorne, fifty miles from Oxford. On numerous occasions, Murray invited Minor to visit Oxford, but Murray's offer was regularly--and mysteriously--refused.

Finally, in 1896, after Minor had sent nearly ten thousand definitions to the dictionary, a puzzled Murray set out to visit him. It was then that Murray finally learned that Minor was a murderer locked up in Broadmoor, England's harshest asylum for criminal lunatics.

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Nonfiction Book Group February 2018

January 2, 2018, 9:44 am
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Join the Nonfiction Book Group at the Sweetwaters on Canton Center Road for a lively discussion.

The unsettlers : in search of the good life in today's America by Mark Sundeen
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A work of immersive journalism steeped in a distinctively American social history and sparked by a personal quest, The Unsettlers traces the search for the simple life through the stories of these new pioneers and what inspired each of them to look for -- or create -- a better existence. Captivating and clear-eyed, it dares us to imagine what a sustainable, ethical, authentic future might actually look like.

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Saturday, February 17 - 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM— Offsite
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Nonfiction Book Group March 2018

January 26, 2018, 9:37 am
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Alone : Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : defeat into victory by Michael Korda
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May 1940 was a month like no other, as the German war machine blazed into France while the supposedly impregnable Maginot Line crumbled, and Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister in an astonishing political drama as Britain, isolated and alone, faced a triumphant Nazi Germany. Against this vast historical canvas, Michael Korda relates what happened and why, and also tells his own story, that of a six-year-old boy in a glamorous movie family who would himself be evacuated. 

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Saturday, March 17 - 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
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Nonfiction Book Group April 2018

March 5, 2018, 7:25 am
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Caesar's last breath : decoding the secrets of the air around us by Sam Kean
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Tracing the origins and ingredients of our atmosphere, Kean reveals how the alchemy of air reshaped our continents, steered human progress, powered revolutions, and continues to influence everything we do. Along the way, we'll swim with radioactive pigs, witness the most important chemical reactions humans have discovered, and join the crowd at the Moulin Rouge for some of the crudest performance art of all time. Lively, witty, and filled with the astounding science of ordinary life, Caesar's Last Breath illuminates the science stories swirling around us every second.

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Saturday, April 21 - 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM— Offsite
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Nonfiction Book Group May 2018

March 28, 2018, 8:55 am
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The Kelloggs : the battling brothers of Battle Creek by Howard Markel
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As Markel chronicles the Kelloggs' fascinating, Magnificent Ambersons-like ascent into the pantheon of American industrialists, we see the vast changes in American social mores that took shape in diet, health, medicine, philanthropy, and food manufacturing during seven decades--changing the lives of millions and helping to shape our industrial age.

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Saturday, May 19 - 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM— Community Room
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