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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande

What you should know as you age (9/15/2017)

Well written, author provides insight to the issues of people as they age and the things they need to consider as they age. A must for Boomers and their family.

The Fortune Hunter
by Daisy Goodwin

The Fortune Hunter by Doris Goodwin (7/31/2014)

We read this for our book club. We like the book, it described the period. A good historical novel. A great summer read.

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Daughters of Shandong
by Eve J. Chung

Based on the author’s family story, comes an extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters’ escape from Taiwan.

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The Lilac People
by Milo Todd

For fans of All the Light We Cannot See, a poignant tale of a trans man’s survival in Nazi Germany and postwar Berlin.

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A morbidly funny and emotionally resonant novel about the ways life—and love—can sneak up on us (no matter how much pepper spray we carry).

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Awake in the Floating City
by Susanna Kwan

A debut novel about an artist and a 130-year-old woman bound by love and memory in a future, flooded San Francisco.

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The Original Daughter
by Jemimah Wei

A dazzling debut by Jemimah Wei about ambition, sisterhood, and family bonds in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore.

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