Books

Michelle Obama wrote Becoming in 2016. We will read part 1, “Becoming Me” for the first session on November 30 at 7, EMAIL ovsecretary@gmail.com, RSVP the corresponding Facebook event, OR COMMENT HERE to get on the Zoom mailing list with…
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This book was written in 1720, but it describes very vividly what it was like to live in London in 1665, the year that the black death killed about a quarter of the population. It has uncanny resemblances to what…
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Note: Our current book is “Journal of a Plague Year” by Daniel Defoe. Tara Westover We really enjoyed this book. Tara was raised in an isolated fundamentalist Mormon household, and yet she was destined to be her own person, unlike…
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As the first volume of sermons by an African American preacher widely available to a white audience, Strength to Love was a landmark work. Despite omissions and changes to the original manuscript, Strength to Love remains a concrete testament to…
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Barbara Erenreich’s website