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1ahef1963
Jun 19, 2015, 6:42 pm

4EMS_24
Edited: Jun 20, 2015, 7:17 am

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6rolandperkins
Edited: Jun 20, 2015, 5:56 pm

1. Whoʻs afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Edward Albee

2. Whoʻs afraid of Franz Kafka?
(Czech translation of (1))
by Edward Albee

3. The Roosevelt I Knew
by Frances Perkins*

4. I Knew Dietrich Bonhoeffer
by Wolf-DIeter Zimmermann

5. Lincoln as I Knew him: Gossip,
Tributes, and. . .
ed.** by Harold Holzer

*first U. S. woman to be a presidential cabinet
member; distant cousin of @rolandperkins

** the "I" here is the sources anthologized
by Holzer, not Holzer himself

9rolandperkins
Edited: Jun 21, 2015, 9:41 pm

Skippy by Percy Crosby

Penrod and Sam
by Booth Tarkington

Finn by Jon Clinch*

Working with (F. D.) Roosevelt
by Samuel I. Rosenman

With Steinbeck in the Sea of
Cortez . . .
by Sparky Enea

*Read in 2014

11rolandperkins
Edited: Dec 28, 2015, 9:38 pm

La Chanson de Roland / The Song of Roland
(anonymous)

Joan of Arc by Mark Twain

Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, and Lao Tzu: the
Parallel Sayings
by Richard Hooper

Balzac: the Inside Story (article)
by John Chambers

Fanshawe by Nathaniel Hawthorne

12theretiredlibrarian
Dec 29, 2015, 2:34 pm

Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
George Washington's Teeth by Deborah Chandra
The Lute Player: a Novel of Richard the Lionhearted by Norah Lofts
Plantagenet Prelude by Jean Plaidy

17rolandperkins
Edited: Jan 31, 2016, 5:41 pm

Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen

Mae West: an Icon in Black
and White by Jill Watts

"Jerry Bakerʻs Lawn Book"
by Jerry Baker

Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition,
White Hollywood
by Jill watts

The Concord Quartet: Alcott,
Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and
the Friendship that Freed the
American Mind
by Samuel Schreiner

18patchygirl
Edited: Feb 1, 2016, 8:44 am

Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
The Brontes Went to Woolworth's by Rachel Ferguson
Watson's Choice by Gladys Mitchell
O, Absalom! by Howard Spring
March by Geraldine Brooks

23rolandperkins
Edited: Jul 9, 2016, 5:37 pm

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25rolandperkins
Edited: Jul 18, 2016, 12:55 am

Alfred the Great: Asserʻs Life of
King Alfred, and other
by Asser

Ally McBeal: the totally Unauthorized
Guide by Kathy Mitchell

The Great and Only Barnum: the
Tremendous, stupendous Life of
Showman P. T . Barnum
by Candace Fleming

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe

Five OʻClock Angel: Letters of Tennessee Williams
to Maria St. Just

29rolandperkins
Edited: Jul 27, 2016, 5:56 pm

Cunning Murrell by Arthur Morrison

Curiosities Revisited: the Works of Isaac
Disraeli by Marvin Spivack

The Hawke Ascendancy: a Definitive Account
of its Origins and Climax, 1975-1983
by Paul Kelly

Maria of Guadalupe: Shaper of History
Shaper of Hearts by Paul Badde

Reformer: St. Charles Borromeo
by Margaret Rutledge Yeo

31rolandperkins
Edited: Sep 26, 2016, 7:27 pm

"W. H. Hudsonʻs South American Romances"
by

The Wallace by Nigel Tranter

"Black Easter, or: Faust Aleph-Null"
by James Blish