June: NonFiction Pick Following the path of one book, one of the 48 remaining original copies of the Bible printed by Guttenberg, one learns about much more than just that story. The stories about the book business, the agents, the…
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NONFIC: The Lost Gutenberg, the Astounding Story of One Book’s Five-Hundred Year Odyssey, by Margaret Leslie Davis
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NONFIC: Bad Blood:Secrets and Lies in a Silcon Valley Startup by John Carreyou
June: NonFiction Pick This reads like a thriller, it’s unbelievable. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with…
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FIC: Unto Us a Son is Given by Donna Leon.
June: Fiction Pick The newest Donna Leon mystery, with Commisario Guido Brunetti, has a very interesting and unusual plot for a mystery. It takes most of the book for it to unwind, so it’s a bit of a surprise. As…
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FIC: Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
June: Fiction Pick An intriguing debut novel told in three parts from 2017 Whiting Award winner. Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and…
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YA/J NONFIC: Path to the Stars by Sylvia Acevedo
June: YA/J NonFiction Pick The inspiring memoir for young readers about a Latina rocket scientist whose early life was transformed by joining the Girl Scouts and who currently serves as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA. A meningitis…
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