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Favorite Books of '54 Readers

Ann Pearce Roberts I just finished J. Conant's book Tuxedo Park about Alfred Loomis - and the scientific, atomic research before WW II, and like Secrets of Longevity, 100 Ways to Live to Be 100.
Jane Runser Evans At least once a year, I read Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, and continue to lament the loss of Helen MacInness, Alistair MacLean, and Tony Hillerman

Marcia Brown Stern
Anne Backus Wanzer

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. the extraordinary autobiography of a liberated Somalian woman
Anne Backus Wanzer Good Poems for Hard Times, selected by Garrison Keillor
Katharine Edgar Fleming How difficult it was to select a few - here is my list, alphabetical by author:
Fischer, David Hackett  Albion's Seed; Green, Hannah  Little Saint; Paton, Alan  Cry, the Beloved Country; Robinson, Marilynne  Gilead
Robin Hansen Withington Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

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