Recommendations from the June 28 Oak Park Readers' Event.

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Bohemian manifesto : a field guide to living on the edge
by Laren Stover, Paul Himmelein, and Patrisha Grainger Robertson
306.1 STO

Death in Venice and other tales by Thomas Mann and Joachim Neugroschel
MAN

The gentle order of girls and boys : four stories by Dao Strom
STR

A conspiracy of paper by David Liss
LIS

A spectacle of corruption : a novel by David Liss
LIS

This is not the life I ordered : 50 ways to keep your head above water when life keeps dragging you down by Deborah C. Stephens
158 THI

Water for elephants : a novel by Sara Gruen
GRU

Lady Chatterley's lover ; A propos of "Lady Chatterley's lover" by D. H. Lawrence
LAW

Dark sun : the making of the hydrogen bomb by Richard Rhodes
623.451 RHO

The killer angels : a novel by Michael Shaara
SHA

Love is a mix tape : life and loss, one song at a time by Rob Sheffield
781.64 SHE

The Nimrod flipout by Etgar Keret, Miriam Shlesinger, and Sondra Silverston
KER

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
WHA

In the bleak midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
SPE

Julie and Julia : 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny apartment kitchen by Julie Powell
641.5092 POW

My life in France by Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme
641.5092 CHI

The Nia technique : the high-powered energizing workout that gives you a new body and a new life by Debbie Rosas and Carlos Rosas
613.71 ROS

Shadow divers : the true adventure of two Americans who discovered Hitler's lost sub by Robert Kurson
940.5451 KUR

Speaking of faith by Krista Tippett
200 TIP

Writing in an age of silence by Sara Paretsky
813.09 PAR

Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life
by Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, and Camille Kingsolver
641.0973 KIN

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
LEW

The blind assassin by Margaret Atwood
ATW

Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed by Jared M. Diamond
304.28 DIA

The history of love by Nicole Krauss
KRA

Ice bound : a doctor's incredible battle for survival at the South Pole
by Jerri Nielsen and Maryanne Vollers
NIELSEN J.

In the name of honor : a memoir
by Mukhtar Mai, Marie-Thérèse Cuny, and Linda Coverdale
364.1532 MAI

The job : an American novel by Sinclair Lewis
LEW

The last of her kind by Sigrid Nunez
NUN

The pleasure of my company : a novel by Steve Martin
MAR

The Red Hat Society cookbook by Sue Ellen Cooper and Red Hat Society
641.5973 RED

A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
500 BRY

Specimen days by Michael Cunningham
CUN

Staying up much too late : Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and the dark side of the American psyche by Gordon Theisen and Edward Hopper
759.13 HOP

The terror : a novel by Dan Simmons
SIM

Three cups of tea : one man's mission to fight terrorism and build nations-- one school at a time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
371.822 MOR

Was she pretty? by Leanne Shapton
741.5 SHA

Will in the world : how Shakespeare became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
822.33 GRE