A reader's circle is a book club where people attend with whatever they're reading. The only structure is if participants decide to have an 'optional book.' Otherwise, people just bring their own books, articles, magazines, and conversation goes from there.
The idea is to loosen the usual format so participants can select their own reading and attend if they're still in the middle of a book. Conversation inevitably covers the books brought and many other subjects as well.
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Modern Day Jouliete S. Storm Jouliete first join the Army in 1998 because her first husband, Mike, said she would never make it as a soldier. Not only did she become a soldier, but she also eventually become one of approximately 500 living female Purple Heart Medal recipients for injuries sustained in combat and serve three years overseas, along the way meeting her... |
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Susan: A Jane Austen Prequel Alice McVeigh Familiar characters abound - Frank Churchill, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Darcy himself - but Susan - mischievous and manipulative - is the star. This is Austen that even Austen might have loved, with a touch of Georgette Heyer in the romantic sections. Fans of Bridgerton will also relish this classic... |
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Dog Girl Gabi Justice A video of Kendall's harrowing rescue of an abused pit bull from the path of an oncoming train goes viral. Suddenly, everyone wants a piece of Kendall, making her social anxiety worse. But this is an opportunity to put the rescue in the spotlight and secure the donations needed to save it. Delray Dog Rescue doesn't just... |
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After Effects Andrea Gilats To grieve after a profound loss is perfectly natural and healthy. To be debilitated by grief for more than a decade, as Andrea Gilats was, is something else. In her candid, deeply moving, and ultimately helpful memoir of breaking free of death’s relentless grip on her life, Gilats tells her story of living with prolonged, or "complicated," grief... |
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Holy Ghost K.D. Conway It is said that history does not repeat, but rather it rhymes.Today, Spain is a modern, civilized, and progressive society, and it is difficult to imagine that less than 100 years ago that father was set against son, brother against brother, and neighbor against neighbor, in a fight to the death. But yet it was. From 1931 to 1936 Spain descended... |
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Story Intelligence Richard Stone & Scott Livengood Story Intelligence—SQ—helps you become a master of your story, a pursuit indispensable to personal and professional success. By developing your SQ, you’ll amplify and unleash every aspect of your intelligence, including your IQ and EQ. In this book, you’ll also learn how you’re wired for story and the... |
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Personality Intelligence: Master the Art of Being You Merrick Rosenberg For thousands of years, personality types have offered fixed descriptions of who we are. In Personality Intelligence, award-winning author and personality expert Merrick Rosenberg—also known as the Bird Guy—takes it further and shows us how we can develop our personalities to become our best... |
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Hugging My Father's Ghost: A Memoir Zack Rogow In this memoir, Zack Rogow tries to solve the mystery of the father he never knew. Lee Rogow was a widely published fiction writer, drama critic for the Hollywood Reporter, glamorous man-about-town in Manhattan of the 1950s, captain of a submarine-chaser in World War II—and he died tragically in a plane crash when his... |
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The Great Derangement Amitav Ghosh Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? Ghosh examines our inability—in literature, history, politics—to grasp the scale and violence of... |
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Mavericks, Mystics, and Misfits Arthur Hoyle Mavericks, Mystics, and Misfits takes the reader on a journey across American history, from the colonial period to the present, through the life stories of exceptional men and women who have responded in unconventional ways to the challenges and circumstances of their time and place. The journey begins in... |
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Wages of Empire Michael J. Cooper In the summer of 1914, sixteen-year-old Evan Sinclair leaves home to join the Great War for Civilization. Little does he know that, despite the war raging in Europe, the true source of conflict will emerge in Ottoman Palestine, since it's from Jerusalem where the German Kaiser dreams to rule as Holy Roman Emperor. Filled with such... |
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I Did It My Ways D’yan Forest D’yan Forest has always done things her way – or her ways, because she’s lived a dozen different lives. She’s been a desperate Boston housewife, a New York night-club singer and a Paris swinger. She’s been the only Jewish girl in a Christian choir and the female pianist in a transvestite cabaret. She had dayjobs teaching basketball, piano and... |
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Congo David Van Reybrouck From the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu's brutal three decades of rule, and the civil war that has raged from 1996 to the present day, Congo traces the history of one of the most devastated nations in the world. Esteemed... |
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Cry Then Flourish Aulora Chaste A book of poems that relay true events of an empress enduring & overcoming abuse, self hatred, mental illness, and lust. Just like her, you will land upon confidence, self love, & security. Document your inner healing journey & progression with this poetic journal. Reinvention starts now. Cry then flourish! |
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The Colour of the Sun Gillian Thorp One hot June afternoon in Durban, South Africa, a child is born. Doctors and nurses marvel because the birth is one of the rarest in the world. The child, Gillian August, is born still shrouded in her amniotic sac. She is a caul baby, and in 1970s South Africa, this heralds greatness. Or it might have, had August's caul not been stolen within... |
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21 Days Donald R. Dragovich 21 Days is the chronological countdown to David's death as described by his brother, Donald. His written thoughts document what was happening to his brother David as he quickly succumbed to esophageal cancer. Donald describes his emotional turmoil in dealing with his... |
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