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Talk of the Town Book Recommendations for August 2014

Book Recommendations for August 2014: End of the Summer Special Talk of the Town 8/5/2014

Wayfaring Stranger, by James Lee Burke

The Mockingbird Next Door- Life with Harper Lee, by Marja Mills

The Last Kind Words Saloon, by Larry McMurtry

Uncaged, by John Sandford & Michele Cook

The Girls of August, by Anne Rivers Siddons

The Matchmaker, by Elin Hilderbrand
Perfectly Miserable-Guilt, God and Real Estate in a Small Town, by Sarah Payne Stuart

All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu
Summer House with Swimming Pool, by Herman Koch

The Martian, by Andy Weir

The Paris Effect, by Michelle Moggio

Cinnamon and Gunpowder, by Eli Brown

The Care and Management of Lies, by Jacqueline Winspear

The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains – A Tale of Travel and Darkness with Pictures of All Kinds, by Neil Gaiman

The Most Dangerous Book – The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses, by Kevin Birmingham

Landline, by Rainbow Rowell

Between Man & Beast- An Unlikely Explorer, The Evolution Debates, and The African Adventure that Took The Victorian World by Storm, by Monte Reel

James Robertson, Father of Tennessee and Founder of Nashville, by Bill Bays

The Leftovers (new in paperback) by Tom Perrotta

Savage Harvest – A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, & Michael Rockerfeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art, by Carl Hoffman