Marilyn

Bookseller Marilyn

For me, a day that I don’t read is a cryin’ shame of a day! It’s as necessary as breathing for me. And since I’m curious about nearly everything, the daily quest for the newest, next beauty is always dangling as a shiny promise just around the corner. Currently I’m excited about “big fiction”--grand, overarching novels, science books about virology and disease, biographies, and kids books for all ages.

Favorite Genres: 
Biography
Children's Lit
Fiction
Science
Book Recommendations: 
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The Women: A Novel By Kristin Hannah Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781250178633
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: St. Martin's Press - February 6th, 2024

Kristin Hannah wraps her arms around the fraud history of the Vietnam war through the eyes, courage and heart of Frankie McGrath. Frankie’s young, but determined to push past her upper middle class expectations so she joins the Army Nurse Corps. Vietnam is chaotic from the moment she lands.Her nursing team is tight and strong, helping her quickly learn to trust her newly acquired skills. This story has so many facets, both stateside and in the battle hot zones, especially for the nurses on the battlefields and MASH units. ~Marilyn


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The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s By Alexander Nemerov Cover Image
$35.00
ISBN: 9780691244280
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Princeton University Press - March 7th, 2023

This is the  story collection you didn’t know you needed to read. The central theme is the great push of commerce and expansion of vast wild lands. The feelings are tangible of resonant energy in densest forests and hallowing absence in cleared lands. 

Wander these extraordinary writings and feel the  otherness that distances and draws you in this brilliant book. It’s like nothing I’ve read before. ~Marilyn


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Moscow X: A Novel By David McCloskey Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9781324050759
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - October 3rd, 2023

I love a good espionage novel and this one is great. It opens with a bang when CIA agent Artemis Procter gets yanked from Russia back to the states after an “altercation”. Procter seems a bit unhinged to all who’ve worked with her, including her boss, but her uncanny ability to build elaborate traps is exceptional. Now she’s determined to get a team back into Russia to find the money man closest to Putin. A solid read for me or anyone not cut out for a  spycraft career. ~Marilyn


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Clytemnestra: A Novel By Costanza Casati Cover Image
$26.99
ISBN: 9781728268231
Availability: Backordered
Published: Sourcebooks Landmark - May 2nd, 2023

Clytemnestra's imagined life from her young years forward. Richly told and a pleasure to read. ~Marilyn


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Quilt of Souls: A Memoir By Phyllis Biffle Elmore Cover Image
$24.99
ISBN: 9781623545161
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Imagine - November 8th, 2022

Phyllis is abruptly moved from her family home in Detroit to red clay country in Alabama to live with her grandparents whom she’s never met. Bereft of all that’s familiar to her 4-year-old self, Grandma Lula’s rich quilting stories teach Phyllis about her family history in ways she would never know without spending that deep time listening, learning as Grandma quilts. So many family histories live in these magnificent quilts, history in plain view.   Excellent. - Marilyn


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Sing a Black Girl's Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange By Ntozake Shange, Imani Perry (Editor), Tarana Burke (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Ntozake Shange, Imani Perry (Editor), Tarana Burke (Foreword by)
$30.00
ISBN: 9780306828515
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Legacy Lit - September 12th, 2023

Ntozake Shange, an extraordinarily gifted writer, brilliant thinker and a gift to us all. Gone too soon, this lovely book gathers her unpublished work for us, a truly generous gift.. Her writing touches hearts deeply.  I love, love, love her work.

~Marilyn


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Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance By Paulette Jiles Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780063252684
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: William Morrow - September 12th, 2023

This story glistens with dangerous sharp edges, as a chase across law-abandoned areas after the civil war. John Chenneville, war injured and no family, with nothing to lose, hunts down a stone-hearted killer.

Travel alongside him in the chase. A careful read, a rumination of the human soul. Haunting - Marilyn


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The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight By Andrew Leland Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9781984881427
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Penguin Press - July 18th, 2023

Leland’s been losing his sight for a while and in its narrowing, he shares his fears, insights, bright spots while navigating his evolving relationship with his family and while maintaining an active full life.

I’m awed by Leland’s candor that opens a window to sighted people about a condition that scares most of us to our cores. It’s a must read! ~Marilyn


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Good Night, Irene: A Novel By Luis Alberto Urrea Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780316265850
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Little, Brown and Company - May 30th, 2023

During WWII, US women were recruited as “Donut Dollies” to work with the Red Cross to run the Donut trucks behind the lines and sometimes on the front lines in Europe. This little known program was designed for troops to bring a sense of home and respite from battle. Urea’s novel is based on his mother and her best friends as Donut Dollies and their hair raising duty doling out comfort, coffee and donuts. A fascinating book. --Marilyn


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Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner By Barbara Kingsolver Cover Image
$32.50
ISBN: 9780063251922
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Harper - October 18th, 2022

Demon Copperhead - oh, what a grand, tragic and resilient book and so much more. This story, centers around Demon, born into poverty and dysfunction and love. A young boy finds times of guidance and stability in his hard life. He settles into your soul. Reading it, I felt the need to cover my eyes and cringe many times and I felt resounding joy and love for Demon just as many times. It’s a grand big story, not to be missed. ~Marilyn


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The Light Pirate: GMA Book Club Selection By Lily Brooks-Dalton Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9781538708279
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Grand Central Publishing - December 6th, 2022

A wallop of a story set in slowly drowning Florida. In the fury of hurricane Wanda, a baby girl is born exactly when her destiny is set. I love this profound story of hurricane-named Wanda, her evolving self, her family, her place in this distancing environment with its bewitching resilience.~Marilyn


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Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm: A Novel By Laura Warrell Cover Image
$28.00
Not available
ISBN: 9780593316443
Published: Pantheon - September 27th, 2022

Circus Palmer has floundered in his various relationships with women and can’t seem to pull away from that pattern until his daughter looks to him for guidance in life and love. An interesting story about his  journey of courage to find intimacy and trust in his relationships - Marilyn


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One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder By Brian Doyle, David James Duncan (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Brian Doyle, David James Duncan (Introduction by)
$19.99
ISBN: 9780316492881
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Back Bay Books - December 8th, 2020

You are in for a treat of Brian Doyle's wonderful writings. So many snaps of life both humble and grand and utterly human in our follies, foibles and wonder. Doyle's writing shouldn't be missed, these  pieces are soul food for all. ~Marilyn


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Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships By Nina Totenberg Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781982188085
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Published: Simon & Schuster - September 13th, 2022

The story of Nina Totenberg's friendships formed over the decades with many influential men and women including Ruth Bader Ginsberg is a keystone book for everyone and their friends. Through trials, tribulations and joyous times, Totenberg clarifies the deeper meanings and mesh of friendship helping us all through this precious thing called life. This book is a treasure. ~Marilyn


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Taxi from Another Planet: Conversations with Drivers about Life in the Universe By Charles S. Cockell Cover Image
$26.95
ISBN: 9780674271838
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Harvard University Press - August 30th, 2022

Who knew taxi rides could spark interesting thoughts and conversation about life, science, weather and philosophic possibilities? You can know these things from astrobiologist Charles Cockell’s experiences on many taxi rides to or from airports and the ensuing conversations they have on their car ride. It’s utterly fascinating for all who wonder: what if? ~Marilyn


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The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern By Rita Zoey Chin Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781612199863
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Published: Melville House - October 4th, 2022

 Leah's bleak lonesome life is richer than she knows when she sets out  on a rambling road trip cross country that winds into Canada, following crazy stories about her long gone mother from far flung friends. There's magic in Leah as there was in Leah's mother, a revelation of discovery and wonder. It's so good. -Marilyn


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Properties of Thirst By Marianne Wiggins Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781416571261
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Published: Simon & Schuster - August 2nd, 2022

A big story centered in desert, rain-starved Owens Valley. One holdout rancher uses his fortune in continual battle with the LA  Water district, who bought all the land and water rights around him - turning Owen's valley into a desert wasteland.

While the U.S. government builds Manzanar Internment Camp, this story becomes larger and more intense. Wiggins's complex characters & her rich storytelling is like no other. Simply, brilliant. ~Marilyn


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Outback Nevada: Real Stories from the Silver State By John M. Glionna Cover Image
$27.95
ISBN: 9781647790448
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: University of Nevada Press - March 15th, 2022

Meet some REAL characters with fascinating stories from our neighboring state. 

Nevada's much, much more than desert grit and Las Vegas Glitter. It's a grand read. - Marilyn


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Counterfeit: A Reese's Book Club Pick By Kirstin Chen Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780063119550
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - June 13th, 2023

WIckedly sly frenemies Ava Wong and  WInnie Fang have a bumpy history with at least a decade of silence since college. Silent, until Winnie Chen reaches out to Ava - when this intriguing story ramps up its audacious ride. It's very clever and enjoyable. ~Marilyn


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Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons By Jeremy Denk Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780812985887
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - March 21st, 2023

Jeremy Denk’s memoir is a pleasure to read. As a young piano prodigy with a generous helping of exuberance  and curiosity Denk’s early start to music travels the  triumphs and travails of seemingly overzealous teachers (honest and harsh) and bumps along the way pursuing his love for music. Through all, he maintains his core love of music and we are all grateful for his art. --Marilyn


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Mecca: A Novel By Susan Straight Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9781250863072
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Picador - March 14th, 2023

I love this book - these characters and their stories. It’s at once immediate and historic of rightly claimed homespace In a land of doubt. 

You may see California in an expanded way when you read this, this land of California. --Marilyn


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The Swimmers: A novel (CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER) By Julie Otsuka Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780593466629
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Anchor - January 24th, 2023

Julie Otsuka writes a compelling tale that tests the boundaries and constraints of following rules that may become arbitrary.

This story's a confetti of moments like random photos falling out of an album: baffling, tender, sweet, foreboding and so elementally human. --Marilyn


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North: A Novel By Brad Kessler Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781419750427
Availability: Out of Print
Published: The Overlook Press - October 5th, 2021

Sahro Abdi Muse was orphaned young and finally must leave the only land she's ever known: Somalia. 

She remembers all her family stories and traditions that can help her on her biggest journey from Somalia to Canada. 

“Hadn't her grandfather  told her she was a star who could journey between warring constellations without harm? That she belonged to many constellations but wholly to none?" 

This intricate story of this young woman, a monk in Vermont and an American Army vet is superb. Really, this is a  must read --Marilyn


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Late City By Robert Olen Butler Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780802160324
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Grove Press - September 6th, 2022

Sam’s 115 years old, waiting to die as the 2016 presidential votes are being counted. Sam’s busy trying to die but an ongoing dialogue with God nudges him to review his long life. I loved this long spool of his long life through many tumultuous times -  it’s a different look at dying. --Marilyn


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The Killing Hills By Chris Offutt Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780802159878
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Grove Press - June 7th, 2022

This layered story takes you into the lives of Kentucky hill country. Mick Hardin, on leave from his Army CID work and soon to be officially AWOL is helping his sister the sheriff, gather info on a murder that’s shaken the tight knit community. He's dreading a return to his painful home life to meet his wife about the paternity of  her pregnancy.

Hardin’s a complicated man who knows how to tease info from these watchful folks, some of them his kin.The dance is intricate - hill country protocol at odds with law enforcement procedures and his sister’s very pointed observations about his home life. Mick’s deft weaving into and out of tight jams is intriguing.

Chris Offutt dances with words, stories and character motivations that make this a very immediate and human story.  It is excellent. --Marilyn


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Zorrie By Laird Hunt Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781635578430
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - November 1st, 2022

I absolutely love this quiet story! Zorrie is that authentic friend we all want to have helping to navigate this journey called life.

Zorrie’s had a life of curveballs thrown at her, from her parents deaths when she was a child, then living with her life-bitter aunt and suddenly homeless.What Zorrie appears to lack, builds her resilience and great wonder in the world. Where others hesitate, Zorrie jumps in feet first.

This is so excellent, I feel tongue tied with the wonder of it. --Marilyn


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Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood By Cheryl Diamond Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781643752518
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Algonquin Books - June 14th, 2022

From the start of this book, ALL I wanted to do was read it and you will too. Cheryl’s earliest memories at four are filled with wonder, love and wild adventure - it felt magical. Her family traveled the world, moving on a whim, challenging convention. At nine, she was more aware that they were staying one step ahead of the law but not uncovering the real reasons until she was older. DIamond's story is astounding, her strength and courage  to stand up against her father’s rule  is amazing. --Marilyn


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War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line By David Nott, Henry Marsh (Introduction by) Cover Image
By David Nott, Henry Marsh (Introduction by)
$17.00
ISBN: 9781419747991
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Abrams Press - March 9th, 2021

It’s a rare individual who chooses to travel into political hotspots as a trauma surgeon - David Nott is that person. Nott’s deeply personal account of treating refugees while teaching and developing surgical treatments to medical staff is amazing. Nott’s is a seldom seen view into intense living for patients and medical staff alike in the world’s most challenging places. A must read. --Marilyn


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The Children's Train: A Novel By Viola Ardone, Clarissa Botsford (Translated by) Cover Image
By Viola Ardone, Clarissa Botsford (Translated by)
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062940513
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: HarperVia - January 12th, 2021

In post WWII, Italy grappled with conflicting political ideologies and how best to help poor southern Italians. 

Amerigo, an irrepressible, street-smart kid, and his friends join other kids from his poor town to stay with host families in the prosperous north for a time. Though he returns home, Amerigo, like many other kids, never really leaves the north behind. A brilliant bittersweet story. --Marilyn


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Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis By Greta Thunberg, Svante Thunberg, Malena Ernman, Beata Ernman Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780143133575
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Penguin Books - March 17th, 2020

Most of the world knows Greta Thunberg for her unwavering call to action about global warming. 

Most don’t know her family history and struggles in Sweden that helped to galvanize Greta's Thunberg’s movement.

It’s a sobering and very good book about inclusion and the reality that every person can rise to great things. --Marilyn


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Afterland By Lauren Beukes Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780316267854
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Mulholland Books - August 10th, 2021

Twin sisters: one racing away with her son, chased by her twin sister. They are desperate after an escape attempt from a government facility was horribly botched. Their plans have now diverged radically.  

And there’s a raging pandemic that only affects males…prompting the whole wild scenario.

Strange as it seems, this IS pretty funny, sobering and wild. I found myself rooting for all of them.

It’s great! --Marilyn


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Exit West: A Novel By Mohsin Hamid Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780735212206
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Riverhead Books - February 27th, 2018

What to say? Exit West.  It took me forever to start reading. That happens sometimes and usually means a profound book for me. It is profound in its seeming simplicity and fuzzy edges. It's about always and past migrations and people flows. It's poetry in prose novel form. It's profound. --Marilyn


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Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth By Dan Richards Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781786891570
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Canongate Books - August 11th, 2020

A splendid read by Dan Richards sharing his trekking travels reaching into remote, edgy places where desolation appears to reign over vast landscape. Where most would find extreme isolation, Richards finds wonder and awe in elements most of us are unaware of. If you’ve mused about far, remote landscapes, well then,THIS is your book. --Marilyn


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Miracle Country: A Memoir of a Family and a Landscape By Kendra Atleework Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781643751412
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Published: Algonquin Books - June 1st, 2021

This heart lofting, expansive memoir of Kendra Atleework is stunning, cinematic and beautifully told. Her roots are in the arid mountains above Bishop, Ca. Her town is small and the rugged country dwarfs everything. Growing up are bittersweet times and she resolves to expand her life outside of home, ultimately leaving and returning to Bishop. Her personal story is woven into the long history of water rights, belonging and otherness in the impossible raw beauty of high desert. --Marilyn


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The Beadworkers: Stories By Beth Piatote Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781640094277
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Published: Counterpoint - October 13th, 2020

If you love beautiful writing and who doesn't, get this right now. The Beadworkers is a deceptively slim little book but don't be fooled by page count. It's a superb collection of Native American stories that are contemplative, contemporary and glittering with empathy. I love it. Slow down and travel throgh these pages.  --Marilyn


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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires: A Novel By Grady Hendrix Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781683692515
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Quirk Books - May 25th, 2021

Patricia lives the successful southern lady's life until she's exposed at her bookclub for faking her book presentation. It turns out nearly all the club members can't stand their pretentious, perfect club and set up their own club and the fun begins.This story gallops along with hilarious plot twists, misguided assumptions, while honing their true grit as modern southern women. Not to be missed. - Marilyn

 


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Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs By Keena Roberts Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781538745151
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - November 12th, 2019

Welcome to Keena’s rich life from birth to early 20s.

Keena & family live In Africa 98% of each year  -

Transitioning to Suburban Philly 2% of each year -

A fierce, smart, wildly adventurous grand memoir.

You’ve got to read this. --Marilyn


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This Tender Land: A Novel By William Kent Krueger Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781476749303
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Atria Books - May 26th, 2020

Sometimes a story just wraps itself around you. This is one of those stories. Four orphans on the run from dire conditions at their boarding school take off in a canoe hoping for St. Louis. Krueger's finely told story shines light on desperate times during the depression and redemption that can bloom. Just excellent. --Marilyn
 


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Seasons: Desert Sketches By Ellen Meloy, Annie Proulx (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Ellen Meloy, Annie Proulx (Foreword by)
$14.95
Not available
ISBN: 9781948814010
Published: Torrey House Press - April 16th, 2019

Don’t let Meloy’s slim volume fool you. It’s PACKED with wonderful, witty, razor sharp musings and observations in small essays about her life in the Utah desert always informing her experiences.

You won’t zip right through but meander, ponder and slow down.

It’s grand. --Marilyn


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The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir By Steffanie Strathdee, Thomas Patterson, Teresa Barker (With) Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780316418119
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Published: Hachette Books - November 10th, 2020

This is Tom Patterson’s battle against a certain death sentence.

Patterson is overwhelmed by a superbug, resistant to ALL antibiotics.

An extraordinary biologic battle of virus VS. bacterium involving teams of doctors, researchers, US Navy and the FDA. A fearsome, amazing story. --Marilyn


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Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler By Lynne Olson Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780812985030
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - March 3rd, 2020

Marie-Madeleine Fourcade,was  the youngest woman to run a major spy network in France called Alliance during WWII. Germany's occupation of France galvanized her war work where she built  & expanded Alliance’s network, keeping spies, couriers and supply lines functioning just one step ahead of the Gestapo. She established a partnership with Britain's MI6, who was desperate for information about Germany's naval buildup and secret rocket development. 

Fourcade's life story is riveting and fraught with danger. --Marilyn


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Silence: In the Age of Noise By Erling Kagge, Becky L. Crook (Translated by) Cover Image
By Erling Kagge, Becky L. Crook (Translated by)
$14.95
ISBN: 9780525563648
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Vintage - December 4th, 2018

Kagge explores the idea of being in silence through experience, wonder, travel, and deep thought. Some of his silence quests seem to open a new dimension. A wonderful read. - Marilyn


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November Road: A Thriller By Lou Berney Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062663856
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - October 22nd, 2019

1963:Kennedy has been killed & there's doubt about who pulled the trigger. Frank Guidry is a link in that chain, now on the run from his mob boss.

All hell breaks loose when Guidry changes the plans he was meant to follow. Though Guidry is wily, he's not prepared for the major diversion to his plan.

It's a cat and mouse chase across the country. quite a read. - Marilyn


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Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World By Linda Hirshman Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062238474
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Harper Perennial - September 6th, 2016

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Little: A Novel By Edward Carey Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780525534334
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Published: Riverhead Books - October 22nd, 2019