Friends of the Library READING LIST
Phyllis Mahoney ’76 and Julie Walton ’91
The Friends of the Library (FOL) book list is compiled of works by former FOL, Learning Society, Seelbinder Literary Arts Society and Preyer Lecture Series guest speakers, as well as several selections from the Everett Library Book Club. Happy reading!
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Hell of a Book: A Novel by Jason Mott
Girl in Ice by Erica Ferencik
Surviving Savannah by Patti Callahan
Coming Home by Barbra McKay
Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities and Our Planet—One Bite at a Time by Mark Hyman, M.D.
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
Greenwood by Michael Christie
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
The Light Ages by Seb Falk
Pacifists Making Guns: The Galton Family and Britain’s Industrial Revolution by Priya Satia
Lynn Bradley Evans ’70 shows off her Royals pride by the Great Sippiwissett Marsh on the Shining Sea bike path in Falmouth, Massachusetts.
Elizabeth Rand Pearce ’76 and husband Richard Lasota in West Palm Beach, Florida, in November 2021. Elizabeth is also the aunt of Josh Watkins ’18 and Mary Watkins ’19.
Vi Taylor Lyles ’73 is running for her third term as Charlotte’s mayor and recently welcomed her fourth granddaughter.
1973 Vi Taylor Lyles is running for her third term as Charlotte’s mayor and welcomed her fourth granddaughter this spring.
1976
The pandemic inspired Elizabeth Rand Pearce to contribute to a Facebook site devoted to film noir of the ’40s and ’50s. Highly recommended: The Blue Dahlia
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with Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, Out of the Past with Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer, Macao with Jane Russell and Robert Mitchum, Double Indemnity with Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, Murder My Sweet with Dick Powell and Claire Trevor, Gilda with Rita Hayworth, Fallen Angel with Linda Darnell, The Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor, and Laura with Gene Tierney.
Donna Gardner Bracewell ’83 is enjoying her life as a missionary in Paraguay with her husband, Dean.
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