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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
All About Edgar 
August-born Authors
Charming Charlotte Brontë
Goodbye Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
Notable August-Born Authors
Notable December-born Authors
Notable February-born Authors
Oscar Wilde
Tribute to Ernest Hemingway: Author of The Old Man and the Sea
Tribute to Gaston Leroux : Author of The Phantom of the Opera
Tribute to Pearl S. Buck, Author of The Good Earth
Tribute to Sue Grafton
BOOK LISTS
2013 Book Club Ratings
2013 Top Ten Fiction Books
2014 Favorite Books
2015 Favorite Books
2015 Book Challenge
2016 Book Challenge
2017: My Book Club Reads
2017: Best Books List
2019: Best Books List
2020: Reading Rundown
2020: Book Club Lists and Top 10 Lists
2021: Black History Month
2021: Best Books and Book Club Lists
2022: Favorite Books
 Annette's 21 Book Salute 
Books I Love / Places I Love in Coeur d'Alene  - Part 1 
Books I Love / Places I Love in Coeur d'Alene  - Part 2
The Great American Read
Kicking It with the Classics
On Vacation with 36 Books 
The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge
The Wedding Letter
BOOK POLLS
3 Books that Restore Your Faith in Humanity
Cool Bookstores Around the World
Cool Bookstores Around the World, Part 2
Liebster Award
Little Free Art Gallery
Teens Sentenced to Reading

Armstrong, Bruce and Susan: Quirky Sleeps (Non-Fiction Travel)
Armstrong, Bruce and Susan: Quirky Sleeps- Train Car Update (Non-Fiction Travel)
Armstrong, Bruce and Susan: Quirky Sleeps- Treehouse Update (Non-Fiction Travel)
Armstrong, Bruce and Susan: Quirky Sleeps- Treehouse Update (Non-Fiction Travel)
Austen, Jane: Northanger Abbey 
Cisneros, Sandra: The House on Mango Street
Collins, Suzanne: The Hunger Games
Clayton, Meg Waite: The Last Train to London (Historical Fiction)
Crawford, Stanley: Log of the SS The Mrs Unguentine

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Dahl, Roald: Kiss, Kiss
Dahl, Roald: My Uncle Oswald
Dahl, Roald: Switch Bitch
Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and Douglas Abrams:  The Book of Joy (Non-Fiction Self-Help)
Dallas, Sandra: The Chili Queen
Dallas, Sandra: The Diary of Mattie Spenser
Dallas, Sandra: The Persian Pickle Club
Davidson, Robyn: Tracks (Non-Fiction Memoir)
Day, Clarence: Life with Father  (Non-Fiction Memoir)
De Rosnay, Tatiana: Sarah’s Key
Dennis, Patrick: Around the World with Auntie Mame 
Diaz, Junot: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Diliberto, Gioia: I Am Madame X (Historical Fiction)
Doerr, Anthony: All the Light We Cannot See
Doran, Phil: The Reluctant Tuscan (Non-Fiction Memoir)
Doyle, Brian: The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World
Doyle, Evelyn: Tea and Green Ribbons (Non-Fiction Memoir)
Drayson, Nicholas: A Guide to the Birds of East Africa
Du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca
Dunn, Mark: Ella Minnow Pea
Dye, Dan and Mark Beckloff: Amazing Gracie (Non-Fiction Memoir)

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Eliot, George: Silas Marner
Eskens, Allen: The Life We Bury
Esquivel, Laura: Like Water for Chocolate

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Fay, Kim: Love & Saffron
Quinn, Kate:  The Rose Code (Historical Fiction)
Sesay, Isha:  Beneath the Tamarind Tree (Non-Fiction)
Shaffer, Mary Ann and Annie Barrows: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Shaw, George Bernard: Pygmalion
Sheldon, Sidney: The Other Side of Midnight
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
Shen, Ann:  Bad Girls Throughout History (Non-Fiction)
Shoneyin, Lola: The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
Sijie, Dai: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Simonson, Helen: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Simsion, Graeme: The Rosie Project
Sparks, Nicholas and Micah Sparks: Three Weeks With My Brother (Non-Fiction Travel Memoir)
Stedman, M.L.: The Light Between Oceans
Steinbeck, John: Of Mice and Men
Stewart, Elinore Pruitt: Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Non-Fiction)
Stockett, Kathryn: The Help
Stradal, J. Ryan:  The Lager Queen of Minnesota
Strout, Elizabeth: Olive Kitteridge
Sullivan, Mark: Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Historical Fiction)
Sullivan, Tom: Escape at 10,000 Feet (Non-Fiction)

Yen Mah, Adeline: Falling Leaves (Non-Fiction Memoir)

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