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: Orthodoxy by G.K.Chesterton

A shapshot by chapters:

• • Chapter 1: "Introduction in Defence of Everything Else"
     
  • Chapters 2 and 3: "The Maniac" and "The Suicide of Thought" 
     
  • Chapters 4 and 5: "The Ethics of Elfland" and "The Flag of the World"
     
  • Chapters 6 and 7: "The Paradoxes of Christianity" and "The Eternal Revolution"
     
  • Chapter 8: "The Romance of Orthodoxy"
     
  • Chapter 9: "Authority and the Adventurer"

Mystery Discussion Group 
 Touchstone by Laurie King

New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King takes us to a remote cottage in Cornwall in this gripping tale of intrigue, terrorism, and explosive passions that begins with a visit to a recluse code-named  Bennett Grey
Agent Harris Stuyvesant needs Grey’s help to enter a realm where the rich and the radical exist side by side–a heady mix of power, celebrity, and sexuality that conceals the free world’s deadliest enemy. Soon Stuyvesant finds himself dangerously seduced by one woman and–even more dangerously–falling in love with another. As he sifts through secrets divulged and kept, he uncovers the target of a horrifying conspiracy, and wonders if he can trust anyone, even his touchstone...

Clio's Chroniclers (History  Discussion Group)          
To Sleep With the Angels
 by David Cowan & John Kuenster

 In To Sleep with the Angels, two veteran journalists tell the moving story of the fire and its consequences. David Cowan and John Kuenster have worked for years, talking with hundreds of sources and ferreting our documents to reconstruct a minute-by-minute narrative of the tragedy and the sorrows of its aftermath. It is a story of ordinary people caught up in a mind-numbing disaster. In gripping detail, the authors describe the fear, desperation, and panic that prevailed among children, teachers, firefighters, and parents in and around the stricken school building on that cold Monday afternoon. Beyond the flames, the story of the fire at Our Lady of the Angels became an enigma whose mystery has deepened with time: its cause was never officially explained despite evidence that it had been intentionally set by a troubled student at the school. The authors reveal for the first time this youngster's "confession" and the decision by a local judge not to pursue the case against him. The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago also refused to press an investigation, preferring to label the fire a terrible "accident."