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TITLES FOR THE WHITINGHAM ETC. BOOK GROUP FOR 2024 .

January: THE PARIS APARTMENT/LUCY FOLEY explores how loyalty & inherent survival instincts can be exploited for wealth and security. (Published February 2022)

February: THE GENIUS OF BIRDS/JENNIFER ACKERMAN info on a bird's intelligence 04/15)

March: DINNERS WITH RUTH/ NINA TOTENBERG. A memoir on the power of friendship (9/2022)

April: MERCY STREET BY JENNIFER HAIGH. Explains the abortion issue from both sides...prochoice and pro-life. Published February 2022

May: BUMBLEBEE ECONOMICS BY BERND HEINRICH an introduction to insect and plant ecology focusing on the adaptive bumblebee Published 1979

June: THE BOOK OF TWO WAYS BY JODIE PICOULT. Dawn Edelstein journeys into her past to determine her future (Boston to Egypt). Published September 2020

July: PACINKO BY MINJIN LEE a novel (historical fiction) follows a Korean family who immigrates to Japan published February 2017

August: Henry, Himself BY Stuart O'nan Soldier, son, lover, husband, breadwinner, churchgoer, Henry Maxwell has spent his whole life trying to live with honour. A native Pittsburgher and engineer, he's always believed in logic, sacrifice and hard work. Now, seventy-five and retired, he feels the world has passed him by. It's 1998, the American century is ending, and nothing is simple any more. His children are distant, their unhappiness a mystery. Only his wife, Emily, and dog, Rufus, stand by him.

Sept: THE NIGHT WATCHMAN BY LOUISE ERDRICH based on the life of the author's grandfather who worked as a night watchman & carried the fight against native dispossession from rural North Dakota to Washington DC. Explores themes of love & death with lightness (02.2022

October: AMAZING GRACE ADAMS/FRAN LITTLEWOOD ferocious, funny and tender...a woman walks across London to deliver a birthday cake for her 16 year old daughter reliving the joys and tragedies of the previous decade. Published January 2023

November: THE MITFORD AFFAIR/MARIE BENEDICT. An explosive novel of history's most notorious sisters...one of whom will have to choose a country or her family as the sisters get caught in the crosshairs of WWII. Published January 2023

Dec: THE NIGHT PORTRAIT/LAURA MORELLI an exciting dual time-line historical novel about the creation of one Leonardo de Vinci's most famous paintings, Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine & the woman who fought to save it from Nazi destruction during WWII. (9/2020)