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Wednesday, August 12 | 7:00 - 8:00 pm
Starbrooke Clubhouse | 1212 Third St., Louisburg
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet.
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Wednesday, September 9 | 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Timbercreek Bar & Grill | 14 E. Amity St., Louisburg
Escape From the Box by Edward L. Hubbard
"...Human potential is nothing more than a state of mind, and that potential is controlled by two things..." Col. Ed Hubbard. The above quotation forms the heart of this fast moving, hard-hitting, inspirational self-leadership book in which Col. Hubbard shares the valuable lessons he learned during 2,420 days as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. Based on his experience as a POW, Col. Hubbard takes the most negative situation you can imagine and turns it into one of the most positive personal growth transformations you will ever read. His message is for everyone in any walk of life. This is a "must read" book in the tradition of Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. Escape from the Box will leave you richer, having opened doors for greater understanding of your own unlimited potential. You will laugh, you will learn, and you will sing as you read this book. Moreover, you will feel good about your country, yourself, and your own ability. For you will have discovered "The Wonder of Human Potential." - from Amazon
selected by Jim G.
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Wednesday, October 14 | 7:00 - 8:00 pm
Starbrooke Clubhouse | 1212 Third St., Louisburg
The Accidental President by A.J. Baime
A look at the president's (Harry S. Truman) tumultuous first four months in office examines the events he presided over, including the founding of the United Nations, the Nazi surrender, the liberation of concentration camps, and the decision to drop the bomb.
selected by David M.
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Wednesday, November 11 | 7:00 - 8:00 pm
Starbrooke Clubhouse | 1212 Third St., Louisburg
Empire of Ice and Stone by Buddy Levy
"The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world's greatest living ice navigator. The expedition's visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame. Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant ice floes closed in around her. As the ship became icebound, Stefansson disembarked with five companions and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Most on board would never see him again. Twenty-two men and an Inuit woman with two small daughters now stood on a mile-square ice floe, their ship and their original leader gone. Under Bartlett's leadership they built make-shift shelters, surviving the freezing darkness of Polar night. Captain Bartlett now made a difficult and courageous decision. He would take one of the young Inuit hunters and attempt a 1000-mile journey to save the shipwrecked survivors. It was their only hope. Set against the backdrop of the Titanic disaster and World War I, filled with heroism, tragedy, and scientific discovery, Buddy Levy's Empire of Ice and Stone tells the story of two men and two distinctively different brands of leadership: one selfless, one self-serving, and how they would forever be bound by one of the most audacious and disastrous expeditions in polar history, considered the last great voyage of The Heroic Age of Discovery"-- Provided by publisher.
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Wednesday, December 9 | 7:00 - 8:00 pm
Starbrooke Clubhouse | 1212 Third St., Louisburg
The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
selected by Holly M.
Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, was banned from flying in the U. S. when an overly probing search wand caused him to blow his top at LaGuardia Airport. Now, the train is his only option to get to Los Angeles for Christmas to be with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he pitches a story about a train ride taken during Christmas season to his ex-flame editor, Eleanor.
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