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Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war. (Amazon.com)

 

2021 Titles:

January: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

February: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

March:The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

April: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

May: The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

June: The Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

July: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

August: Leave the World Behind by Alam Rumaan

September: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder

October: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

November: Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit

December: Book Share to select titles for next year