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Book Club: Books & Beer at Lahaska
Books & Beer is a monthly book club that meets on the last Tuesday of each month at Free Will Tap Room in Peddler's Village. This book club is open to everyone and reads a wide range of fiction and non-fiction.
Next Meeting: Tuesday, January 29th at 6:30pm at Free Will Tap Room in Peddler's Village
Discussing: The Ghost Map:The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
About the Book: It's the summer of 1854, and London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world. But lacking the infrastructure -- garbage removal, clean water, sewers -- necessary to support its rapidly expanding population, the city has become the perfect breeding ground for a terrifying disease no one knows how to cure. As the cholera outbreak takes hold, a physician and a local curate are spurred to action-and ultimately solve the most pressing medical riddle of their time. Read more....
Book club members save 20% off the price of the book.
Questions about the book club? E-mail staff@lahaskabookshop.com.
Previous Selections:
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
By Jon Ronson
Published: Riverhead Books - May 2012
Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (Paperback)
By Gordon S. Wood
Published: Penguin Books - October 23rd, 2018
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Paperback)
By Sy Montgomery
Published: Atria Books - April 5th, 2016
The Children of Men (Paperback)
By P. D. James
Published: Vintage - May 16th, 2006
Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich (Paperback)
By Norman Ohler, Shaun Whiteside (Translated by)
Published: Mariner Books - March 6th, 2018
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit (Paperback)
By Michael Finkel
Published: Vintage - January 30th, 2018
Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta (Paperback)
By Richard Grant
Availability: Usually Arrives to Store in 1-5 Days
Published: Simon & Schuster - October 13th, 2015
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (Paperback)
By Ben Macintyre, John le Carré (Afterword by)
Published: Broadway Books - May 12th, 2015
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