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Brown Bag Book Club: Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages by Katie Roiphe
Submitted by lmoulton on Friday August 24, 2012

Drawn from the memoirs, correspondence, and journals of the British literary community from 1910 to WWII

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Brown Bag Book Club: Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessi
Submitted by lmoulton on Friday August 24, 2012

A darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its

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Personal Development Book Club - Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher and William Ury

Submitted by tamason on Thursday August 16, 2012

Getting to Yes Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher and William Ury 

Since its

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Personal Development Book Club - Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life by Priscilla Warner
Submitted by tamason on Thursday August 16, 2012

Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life by Priscilla Warner

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History HiJinks Book Club: K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Kruschev America's Most Unlikely Tourist, Peter Carlson
Submitted by tamason on Tuesday August 14, 2012

Although Punch magazine famously commented on the humor of Nikita Khrushchev's desire to visit Disneyland during his 1959 trip to America, 

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History Hijinks Book Club: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 3: Master of the Senate by Robert Caro
Submitted by tamason on Tuesday August 14, 2012

The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues.

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History Hijinks Book Club: Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America by Alison J. Clarke

Submitted by tamason on Tuesday August 14, 2012

From Wonder Bowls to Ice-Tup molds to Party Susans, Tupperware has become an icon of suburban living. Tracing the fortunes of Earl Tupper’s polyethylene containers from early design to global distribution, Alison J. Clarke explains how Tupperware

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Personal Development Book Club: Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, M.D.
Submitted by tamason on Tuesday August 07, 2012

With Who Moved My Cheese? Dr. Spencer Johnson realizes the need for finding the language and tools to deal with change--an issue that makes all of us nervous and uncomfortable.

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Personal Development Book Club: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
Submitted by tamason on Tuesday August 07, 2012

In his latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it. 

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History Hijinks Book Club: Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip by Matthew Algeo
Submitted by tamason on Wednesday June 06, 2012

Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip by Matthew Algeo 

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