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July 3, 2015 Farewell, BFGB
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June 11, 2015 Bootlegger’s Daughter, by Margaret Maron
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April 23, 2015 In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793-1815, by Jenny Uglow
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March 20, 2015 Dear Committee Members, by Julie Schumacher
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March 19, 2015 Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke
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March 18, 2015 All Things Reconsidered, Roger Tory Peterson
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March 17, 2015 Songbird Journeys, by Miyoko Chu
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March 16, 2015 Epitaph, by Mary Doria Russell
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January 9, 2015 Death at the Bar, by Ngaio Marsh
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January 8, 2015 The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries, ed. Otto Penzler
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January 7, 2015 Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, by Anne Fadiman
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January 6, 2015 English Creek, by Ivan Doig
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January 5, 2015 The Library at Night, by Alberto Manguel
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November 7, 2014 Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin, by Calvin Trillin
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November 6, 2014 Splitting an Order, by Ted Kooser
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November 5, 2014 The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories, by Michael Cox and R.A. Gilbert, eds.
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November 4, 2014 On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, by Harold McGee
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November 3, 2014 Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, Michael Pollan
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