The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shafer and Annie Barrows

Recommended by Irene

FIC SHAFFER

If you like your history in the form of fiction, then
this fills the bill.  Reminiscent of "84 Charing
Cross Road" by Helene Hanff, the story evolves
through a series of letters written right after
World War II in Britain.  The central plot involves a writer who
begins corresponding with the inhabitants of Guernsey, one of
the Channel Islands.

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Leaving Microsoft to change the world, by John Wood

Recommended by Irene
370.9173 WOO

What better place to be reading this book than on
vacation in Silicon Valley!  John Wood left a high
pressure, extremely lucrative career to divert his
boundless energy to bringing books and building
schools for children in Nepal and later in wider
areas of Asia, Latin America and Africa.  
Heart-warming and inspiring.  

Also read, "Three cups of tea", by Greg Mortenson
and "Stand for the best", by Thomas Block

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The monster of Florence, by Douglas Preston

Recommended by JoAnn

363.1523 PRE

American author, Preston, moved to Florence to
write another thriller but was sidetracked with a
true murder mystery, never resolved.  He and an
Italian journalist research the 14 gruesome
murders of lovers but they become targets of
a bizarre police investigation.

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