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Non-Fiction
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House: Humor, Blunders, and Other Oddities from the Presidential Campaign Trail/ Charles Osgood.
A book of humorous political quotes of presidential candidates from Harry Truman to George W. Bush.

Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea/ Noah Andre Trudeau.
Pulitzer Prize historian defends Sherman's tactics to end the Confederate States ability to fight.

The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America/ David Hajdu.
An account of the artistic minds that created comic books and the hostile criticism that nearly abolished it.

Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do/ Tom Vanerbilt.
A fascinating look at our driving habits and traffic patterns. The findings will surprise you.

Fiction
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
/ David Wroblewski.
After witnessing his father's murder, a mute boy finds shelter with his dogs in a Wisconsin forest.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society/ Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows.
Shortly after WWII, a London writer travels to meet the members of a unique book club on an island formally occupied by Nazis.

Lace Reader/ Brunonia Barry.
Family secrets are revealed in Salem by a woman who can read the future in patterns of lace.

Host/ Stephanie Meyer.
Aliens have taken over the minds and bodies of nearly all humans but one stubborn woman will not submit in hope of locating her lost love.

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