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Book Recommendations
From the June 2007 Forum

Chestnut Hill's annual book forum took place on June 10, 2007. Friends gathered to recommend books that they were reading currently or had read in the past and wanted to recommend.

The 2007 version of the Chestnut Hill Meeting Book Forum list is given below, roughly in the order in which the books were discussed. You can use the ISBN (or ASIN in one case) to search for the book at any online (or bricks-and-mortar) bookstore, or at most libraries.

Suggester  Genre  Title  Author  ISBN 
Ann Jones  Fiction  The Space Between Us: A Novel (P.S.)  Thrity Umrigar  978-0060791568 
Fiction/Fantasy  The Thin Place  Kathryn Davis  978-0316014243 
Murder Mystery  The Lighthouse   P.D. James  978-0307275738 
Shirley Philips  Religion  Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America  Chris Hedges  978-0743255141 
Betty Hartzell  Fiction  Pretty Birds  Scott Simon  978-0812973303 
Fiction  The Alexandria Quartet  Lawrence Durrell  978-0571052042 
Non-fiction; Public Health  Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media  Lester Friedman, Editor  978-0822332947 
Roberta Foss  Fiction  Miss Alcott's E-mail: Yours for Reforms of All Kinds  Kit Bakke  978-1567923117 
History  Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War  Drew Gilpin Faust  978-0807855737 
Non-fiction  Doga: Yoga for Dogs  Jennifer Brilliant  811841677 
Charlie Philips  Memoir  Searching for Hassan: A Journey to the Heart of Iran  Terence Ward  978-1400032235 
Lynn Mather  Religion/History  The Cave of Reconciliation: An Abrahamic Tale/An Ibrahimic Tale  Pecki Sherman Witonsky  978-0827608474 
Poetry  Brotherly Love  Daniel Hoffmann  978-0812217360 
Pauline Doyle  Religion/History  Quakers on the Move: A Storybook of Quaker History from 1652 to Today  Friends General Conference  978-1888305036 
Meg Mitchell  Non-fiction  Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life  Barbara Kingsolver  978-0060852559 
Poetry  A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems   Wendell Berry  978-1582430065 
Short Stories  Fidelity: Five Stories   Wendell Berry  978-0679748311 
Elizabeth Koopman  Pamphlet  Where words come from: An interpretation of the ground and practice of Quaker worship and ministry  Douglas Steere  ASIN: B0006AU2JS 
Pamphlet  Spiritual hospitality: A Quaker's understanding of outreach  Harvey Gillman  978-0875743141 
Joan Hagner  Diaries  Unpublished journals of Hagners' travels  Jack Hagner  n/a 

Also see the previous book forums.

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