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Book Talk

Jenny Sparks and Nolan Crabb

Welcome to Book Talk! We"re all about books. What you like to read, how you like to read it. Who"s your favorite author? What"s your favorite series and much more.

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book talk for june 25 2024

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2024/06/26

Book Talk for June 25 2024Dinner in Camelot: the night America's greatest scientists, writers, and scholars partied at the Kennedy White House by Joseph EspositoAccount of a dinner on April 29, 1962, hosted by President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy for Nobel laureates, writers, scientists, historians, and artists. Discusses the historical context of the dinner, notable interactions, and the many repercussions in the years following the dinner. 2018.DB91362Music and imaginationby Aaron

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book talk for june 18 2024

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2024/06/18

Book talk for June 18, 2024First Father First Daughterby Maureen Reagan"Mermie," as she was affectionately called by her father writes about growing up with the former president and about realizing her own political ambitions. Maureen's admiration for her father shows throughout the book as she writes about her childhood in Hollywood, a string of uninspiring jobs, several marriages, and her involvement with the Republican party.DB29628Four blue stars in the window: one family's story of the

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book talk for june 11 2024

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2024/06/11

Book talk for June 11, 2024Girl in the Leavesby Robert Scott"In the fall of 2010, in the all-American town of Apple Valley, Ohio, four people disappeared without a trace: Stephanie Sprang; her friend, Tina Maynard; and Tina's two children, thirteen-year-old Sarah and eleven-year-old Kody. Investigators began scouring the area, yet despite an extensive search, no signs of the missing people were discovered. On the fourth day of the search, evidence trickled in about neighborhood "weirdo"

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book talk for june 04 2024

Book Talk ·

2024/06/04

Book Talk for June 4, 2024Nuclear War a scenarioby Annie Jacobsen"Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These projects are vital to how we understand the world we really live in: where one nuclear missile begets one in return; where the choreography of the world's end requires massive decisions made on seconds-notice, with information that is only as good as the

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book talk for may 28 2024

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2024/05/29

Book talk for May 28, 2024Then came Violence Virgil Tibbs No. 6by John Dudley Ball"Virgil Tibbs, the cool, highly competent black detective of the Pasadena Police Department opens the door of his bachelor apartment to find that it has been expertly stripped to the bare walls—not a thing is left to show that he ever lived there. At headquarters he is given a cryptic note from Police Chief McGowan—he is to go to a certain address in the better section of Pasadena. When he arrives, he finds

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book talk for may 21 2024

Book Talk ·

2024/05/21

Book Talk for May 21, 2024Reaching for the stars: the inspiring story of a migrant farmworker turned astronaut by Jose M Hernandez"Born into a family of migrant workers, toiling in the fields by the age of six, Jose M. Hernández dreamed of traveling through the night skies on a rocket ship. [The book] is the inspiring story of how he realized that dream, becoming the first Mexican-American astronaut. Hernández didn't speak English till he was 12, and his peers often joined gangs, or

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book talk for may 14 2024

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2024/05/15

Book Talk for May 14, 2024Far from the Madding CrowdBy Thomas Hardy and Ronald BlytheIn this late-Victorian novel, a penniless girl becomes a woman of means when she inherits her uncle's farm. The plot focuses on her changing relationships with the three men who court her, and on their personal relationships with other people.DB32653The Vanished Man Book NO. 5 in the Lincoln Rhyme seriesby Jeffery DeaverWhen a killer flees the scene of a homicide at a prestigious Manhattan music school and

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book talk for may 07 2024

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2024/05/08

Book Talk for May 7, 2024Time and Tideby Thomas J. FlemingHistorical World War II melodrama about a U.S. Navy cruiser, the USS "Jefferson City." As the lone survivor of a battle in the Solomon Islands, the ship is disgraced and considered jinxed until a new captain takes command. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1987.DB26656Shamed A Kate Burkholder novelby Linda CastilloThe peaceful town of Painters Mill is shattered when an Amish grandmother is brutally murdered on an

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book talk for april 30 2024

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2024/05/01

Book Talk for April 30, 2024Angels in the ER: Inspiring true stories from an emergency room doctorby Robert D. Leslie"Twenty-five years in the ER could become a résumé for despair, but for best-selling author Dr. Robert D. Lesslie, it's a foundation for inspiring stories of everyday angels - friends, nurses, doctors, patients, and even strangers who offer love, help, and support in the midst of trouble. The ER is a difficult and challenging place to be. Yet the same pressures and stresses

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book talk for april 23 2024

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2024/04/23

Book talk for April 23, 2024Murder With Peacocksby Donna AndrewsMeg is knocking herself out trying to be a bridesmaid for the weddings of her brother, mother, and best friend. As she tries to help her ditzy relatives prepare for their various outrageous festivities, one of the guests is murdered, old crimes are uncovered, and she falls in love. 1999.BR13270 DBC16974Close to Home Adam Fawley 1by Cara Hunter and Emma Cunniffe When eight-year-old Daisy Mason vanishes from her Oxford home, DI

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book talk for april 16 2024

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2024/04/16

book talk for April 16, 2024Broadcasters In Baseballby Curt SmithThe Road to Roswellby Connie WillisDB116879Reaching for the Stars the inspirational story of an immigrant turned astronautDB116999Heart of a killerby David RosenfeldDB74334Honeymoon Crasherby Tina MorrisDB116577Motion to SuppressDB52073Paul Harvey's Americaby Stephen MansfieldDB7228361 Hoursby Lee ChildDB71403 BR20391Death Dreamby Ben BovaDB39835

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book talk for april 09 2024

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2024/04/10

Book Talk for April 9, 2024The Perfect Marriage by GenevaKlint HillThe Michael Bennett SeriesToo Much and Never Enoughby Mary L TrumpLive from the Battlefieldby Peter ArnetGilda Radner Hans Christian AndersonA stranger in the House Resurrection Walkby Michael ConnellyKate Shugakby Dana Stabinow DB109792The Good DreamDB118478Paper Moonby tatum O'NealFinding Stevieby Kathy GlassThe Day the world came to TownBy Jim DefeedDBC06240

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book talk for april 02 2024

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2024/04/04

Book talk for April 2, 2024This Thing Between UsSummer Days and Summer nightsFinding Sky A Nicki Valentinemysteryby Susan O'BrienDB89711The Second Life of Muriel Westby AmandaDB109792The Gray ManThunderstruckby Erik LarsonDB63094The Womenby Kristin HannahThe Programby James SwainDB99079Cabin Fever by Mike Smith and Jonathan FranklinDB117025Murder at Rockby Elen ArmstrongDB113170The Great DevideThe Reason I JumpThe big Warby Agatha ChristieDB21373Mrs. Pargener's Packageby Simon

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Book Talk for March 20 2024

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2024/03/20

booktalk for March 19, 2024When Character was King the story of Ronald Reaganby Peggy NoonanFormer special assistant to president Ronald Reagan asserts that his greatness lay in his character. Includes anecdotes from those who knew the president well; analyzes his career as a film star, a union representative, and a politician; and discusses the factors that influenced him. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2001.DB53364Rawhide Down the near assasination of Ronald Reaganby Del Quentin

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Book Talk for march 05 2024

Book Talk ·

2024/03/06

The Nightingaleby Kristin HannahFrance, 1939. Vianne Mauriac sends her husband off to war, while her younger sister Isabelle runs off to Paris, claiming an affair. Once there, Isabelle becomes involved in the Resistance. Vianne's home is occupied by the invading Nazis. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2015.BR23299 DB81189The Housekeeperby Joy Fielding"In the end, I have only myself to blame. I’m the one who let her in. Jodi Bishop knows success. She’s the

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Book Talk for February 27 2024

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2024/02/28

Booktalk for February 27, 2024The Good old boys Hewey Calloway No. 1by Elmer KeltonWill easy-riding, old-time cowboy Hewey Calloway finally settle down? He realizes that a new era is coming to Texas in the early 1900s, but at the age of thirty-eight, he doesn't want to change with the times. Prequel to The Smiling Country (DB 48506).DB48505Preacher's Fireby William W Johnstone and A J. JohnstoneMountain man Preacher goes undercover in the big city of St. Louis to stop a man who is trying to

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Book Talk for February 20 2024

Book Talk ·

2024/02/21

Book talk for February 20 2024One ChildBy Torey L. HaydenWhen six-year-old Sheila, the unwashed, unkempt daughter of a migrant worker injures another child, she is temporarily placed in the author's class of retarded and handicapped preadolescents. Hayden soon realizes that this troubled child, whom the court wants to commit to a state institution, is gifted with the IQ of genius. 1980.DB16872The Shiningby Stephen KingJack and Wendy Torrance come face-to-face with terror when they become

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book Talk for January 23 2024

Book Talk ·

2024/02/07

Book talk for January 23, 2024 The CoveBy Catherine CoulterSomeone thinks Sally Brainerd knows who murdered her father. If Sally can just get to Aunt Amabel's house in The Cove, on the Pacific coast, she knows she will be safe. But then, the man she begins to rely on for help turns out to be with the FBI. Violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex.DB42271 Lee and Grant a Duo biographyBy Gene Smith The ship beneath the ice: the discovery of Shackleton's Endurance By Mensun

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Book Talk for January 30 2024

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2024/02/07

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Book Talk for November 21 2023

Book Talk ·

2023/11/29

Book Talk for November 21, 2023 A Child's Christmas in WalesBy Dylan Thomas Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) recalls the celebration of Christmas in Wales and the feelings it evoked in him when he was a child. 1954.BR16134 DB24355 The Christmas Listby Richard Paul Evans Three weeks before Christmas, the newspaper erroneously publishes the obituary of Utah real-estate developer James Kier. Kier discovers what others really think of him and sets about making amends to the people he has

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