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DESCRIPTION:If you miss the insightful discussions of the classroom or just
 \nlove to read\, this is your chance to discover thought-provoking\nbooks 
 and meet new people while learning from some of 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ’s\nfavourite profes
 sors without tests\, papers\, or evaluations!\n\nThere is a registration f
 ee of $15 per person for the semester\nwhich covers refreshments\, room re
 ntals\, and other book club\nexpenses. Book club members benefit from a 10
 % discount on all book\nclub books at the University Bookstore.\n\nLeonard
  Moore has taught American history at 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ since 1991. His\ncourses cove
 r a wide range of topics including the Civil War and\nReconstruction\, cit
 izenship and civil rights in the late nineteenth\nand twentieth centuries\
 , social and political history from the\n1920s to the present. His researc
 h interests have focused on the\nsocial foundations of the American right 
 in the twentieth century.\nHe is the author of Citizen Klansmen: The Ku Kl
 ux Klan in Indiana\,\n1921-1927\, which won the Outstanding Book Award by 
 the Gustavus\nMyers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United\nSt
 ates.\n\n'The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the
 \nGreat American Dustbowl' by Timothy Egan\, Houghton Mifflin.\n\nThe dust
  storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest\nyears of the Depre
 ssion were like nothing ever seen before or\nsince. Timothy Egan's critica
 lly acclaimed account rescues this\niconic chapter of American history fro
 m the shadows in a tour de\nforce of historical reportage. Following a doz
 en families and their\ncommunities through the rise and fall of the region
 \, Egan tells of\ntheir desperate attempts to carry on through blinding bl
 ack dust\nblizzards\, crop failure\, and the death of loved ones. Brillian
 tly\ncapturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe\, Egan does equal\njust
 ice to the human characters who become his heroes\, 'the stoic\,\nlong-suf
 fering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency\nand respect' (N
 ew York Times).\n\nNovember 26 - 'Perceval: The Story of the Grail ' by Ch
 rétien de\nTroyes\n\n
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LOCATION:CA\, Room 232\, Leacock Building\, 855 Sherbrooke Street West\, Ro
 om 232\, Leacock Building\, 855 Sherbrooke Street West
SUMMARY:91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Reads - 'The Worst Hard Time' by Timothy Egan\, Houghton Mif
 flin
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