In 1945 Berlin, a young American intelligence officer finds himself occupying the house of a German with the same name. Seeking to learn more about his German double, the American is captivated by his wife, who draws him into a web of deceit and danger with tales of treasure and promises of love.
G.K. Chesterton Society Meeting
9/9/23 at 2:00 p.m.
Title: The Old Thunder: The Biography of Hillaire Belloc
by Joseph Pearce
Mystery Discussion Group
9/16/23 12:00 p.m
Leader:Susan Loyd
Title: Thunder Bay
Author: William Kent Krueger
CLIO'S CHRONICLERS MEETING
9 /24/ 23 2:00 P.M.
Leader: Augie Aleksy
Title: The Reason Why:The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade
by Cecil Woodham Smith
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Joseph Levallley and Joseph Baar Topinka
E-mail:cns7419
@sbc.global.net
Non- Fiction
Oldest Chicago by Dan Witter
Hemingway in Comics by Rob Elder
Sistine Secrets by Blech & Doliner
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Chicago Socialism by Joseph Rulli
Boneheads & Braniacs by Moira Dolan
Crusaders Dan Jones
The Templars Dan Jones
Custer's Trials T.J.Stiles
The Ghosts of Eden Park Karen Abbott
A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome Alberto Angela
Amusement Park Stephen Silverman
How to Hide an Empire Daniel Immerwahr
Leadership in Turbulent Times Doris Kearns Goodwin
Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann
The Only Woman in the Room Marie Benedict
Phillipp of Hesse: Unlikely Hero of the Reformation John Helmke
Fiction: International
Jewels of Paradise by Donna Leon
The Book Artist Mark Pryor
The Hidden Key Dave Grogan
Pyongyang Option by A.C.Friedan
Diver's Paradise by Davin Goodwin
Play of Death Oliver Potzch
GI Bones Martin Limon
Mr. Kill Martin Limon
Shoot the Bastards. Michael Stanley
A Fine Line. Gianrico Carofiglio
Police by Jo Nesbo
The Land of Dreams Vidar Sundstol
The Wolf & The Watchman Niklas Natt och Dag
Insidious Intent by Val McDermid
Fiction: Anglo-American
The Last Resort Library by Irving Finkel
In the Castle of the Flynns by Michael Raleigh
Death at Greenway by Lori Rader-Day
Lethal Pursuit by Will Thomas
Forever by Peter Hamill
The Black Cage Jack Fredrickson
Broken Places by Tracy Clark
The Lucky One Lori Rader-Day
Blues in the Dark Raymond Benson
The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols Nicholas Meyer
Searcher of the Dead Nancy Herriman
The Conjurers Boy by Michael Raleigh
Death of an Art Collector Robert Goldsborough
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Murder Knocks Twice Susanna Calkins
Legends of the West by Michael A. Black
Shell Game Sara Paretsky
Murder at Astor Place Victoria Thompson
First, on behalf of the book and comic industries, we must thank the Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation for all it has done to help stores and store staff in need, especially since March 2020.
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With the help of three volunteers, Binc created an online application to further ease the process. Other volunteers pitched in as well, and Binc essentially brought on anyone who had the skills French and her team knew they needed. They also relied on a public health emergency policy that Binc had formulated in the past. As a result of all this, Binc was able to send out the first checks to individual applicants on March 17. At this time, Binc was receiving a new request for assistance every 15 minutes, all day every day.
"It's humbling to know that what we have been working towards for the past eight years, all of the advocacy we did and conversations we had, it paid off," French says. "Folks found us when the need was highest."
(For a full account of how Binc responded in the first few months to the pandemic, see this Shelf Awareness article from May 2020.)
