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Books Recommended by Our Members

The Frozen River: A Novel, by Aerial Lawhon. It is based on a true story about a midwife in Maine in the 1800’s. This woman delivered over a thousand babies and never lost a mother. The author’s in-laws live in Sun City.

Across Five Aprils, by Irene Hunt.

War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East, by Gershom Gorenberg.

The Alice Network, by Kate Quinn

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive, by L. J. Adlington

D-Day Girls: The Spies who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II, by Sarah Rose

Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel, by Shelby Van Pelt

Keep the Memories, Reduce the Clutter, by Matt Paxton

Beaver Land: How One Weird Rodent Made America, by Leila Philip

The Island of Sea Women, by Lisa See

The Nobility of Our Hearts, by our LLGTX member Kim Hovanky

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence (In preparation for the September lectures?)