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Leaving Berlin

8/26/2015

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Author: Joseph Kanon
Published: 2015, Atria Books, ISBN 978-1476704647
Lexile Measure: Not available
Classification: Fiction

Summary:
Leaving Berlin is a spy novel set in post-war Berlin, a Berlin still reeling from the war’s loss of life, independence, and identity. While three countries, Germany, the United States, and the Soviet Union struggle for the upper hand, Alex Meier, an author returned from a long exile in the United States, gets caught in the middle.


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The Boys in the Boat

8/13/2015

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Author: Daniel James Brown
Publisher: Penguin Books, 2013, ISBN 978-0-670-025817
Lexile Measure: 1260L
Classification:  Non-fiction

Summary:
The Boys in the Boat is Daniel James Brown’s thrilling and sometimes heartbreaking account of the working-class Americans who defied the odds and beat not just the Northeastern elite but also the entire world when they won gold at the 1936 Olympics.  

Last year, I attended a convention in Seattle with a group of women whose children row.  On a break, they wanted to visit University of Washington’s Conibear Boathouse and see the shell featured in The Boys in the Boat.  I was happy to tag along but, silently, I was thinking, “This is so weird. Why are these women staring at this skinny boat when we could be at the mothership Nordstrom?”  All I can say is that now, I get it.


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David and Goliath

8/3/2015

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Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; Reprint edition October, 2013
ISBN # 978-0-316-20436-1
Lexile Measure: 580L
Classification:  Non-fiction

Summary:
In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell explores our assumptions about obstacles and whether they are based in fact or fiction. 



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