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FICTION DISCUSSION
December 3
Run
by Ann Patchett
 Bernard Doyle didn’t get the life he wanted. His beloved wife died when their children were young, and years later his oldest son, Sullivan, was involved in a scandal that ended Doyle’s career as mayor of Boston. Now he has pinned his hopes on his adopted younger sons, Tip and Teddy, confident that with his encouragement one of them will achieve the political success that was denied him. Leaving a Jesse Jackson speech one cold night, Tip slips on an icy sidewalk and is saved from injury by a woman who throws herself between him and an oncoming car. This seemingly coincidental encounter will change all of their lives.
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NONFICTION DISCUSSION
January 12
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800
by Edward J. Larson
 Thomas Jefferson and John Adams faced off in the campaign of 1800 which, according to historian Larson, was the first contested presidential election. Both the Republican and the Federalist parties indulged in bitter partisan wrangling and mud-slinging and invented lies about their opponents. “Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them,” Thomas Jefferson wrote to his daughter Martha during the campaign.
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