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Brown Bag Book Discussion - February 2003

A Nature Notes Sampler
Frank Lang
[Adult Non-Fiction 508.795 La]

A delightful and sometimes curmudgeonly, look at local botany and biology from Southern Oregon University's Professor Emeritus of biology.

Annie Dunne
Sebastian Barry
[Adult Fiction]

Amidst a chaning Ireland in the late 1950's, Annie Dunne is facing old age after an unhappy and unfulfilled life. When two children come into her life, Annie learns a new capacity for love.

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
Toby Young
[Adult Non-Fiction 070.92 Yo]

In this biting memoir, British journalist Toby Young invades New York's "high-gloss" magazine world with hilarious results.

Sweets
Tim Richardson
[Adult Non-Fiction 641.336 Ri]

In this fascinating and intriguing look at the history of sweets, Richardson also looks at the history of mankind and how sweets have paved history.

1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England

Walter Carruthers Sellar

[Adult Non-Fiction 827 Se]

A Pythonesque look at English History full of jokes, puns and plenty of laughs.

Flower of the Pacific

Lana McGraw Boldt
[Adult Fiction]

This well-written and very well researched novel looks at a Japanese-American woman trapped in Japan during World War II and what she must do to survive.

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