Newark Park Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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📖 #SecondhandSunday 📖 Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr 5 people across 800yrs find inspiration in an Ancient Greek text. All reaching for their own version of 'paradise', can they get there? Do you like books set in different time periods? #anthonydoerr #secondhandbooks https://t.co/ZOZoX3TSJl

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📖 #SecondhandSunday📖 Fathers' Day edition A Promised Land by Barack Obama In this memoir , Obama reflects on his attempt to make America believe in the power of democracy while balancing it against his life as a father & husband. #HappyFathersDay #BarackObama #nonfiction https://t.co/ARRxSy1mpu

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📖 #SecondhandSunday 📖 Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie A train journey through stunning scenery turns deadly. Can Poirot's little grey cells solve the case in time to prevent any more murders? #herculepoirot #agathachristie #DetectiveFiction https://t.co/OEOLYr9K82

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📖 #SecondhandSunday 📖 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson A journalist and an enigmatic PI investigate a disappearance many years earlier. As the situation becomes murkier, both Mikael and Lisbeth find themselves in danger... #MillenniumTrilogy #stıeglarsson https://t.co/NHXK0RhDRU

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📖 #SecondhandSunday📖 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The absurdity of war is brought to life through the experiences of a US air squadron. Events are out of sequence and told from different perspectives. 📚 Do you like a non-linear narrative? #catch22 #modernclassics https://t.co/Wua4epjyeL

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📖 #SecondHandSunday 📖 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden A young girl begins her journey to becoming a geisha. But the politics both inside and beyond the boarding house mean things are never straightforward. Have you seen the film adaptation? What did you think? 📚 https://t.co/PnzeBUYxUj

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📖 #SecondhandSunday📖 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez A dream leads to the founding of a utopian settlement. But the town faces hardships & tragedy. Can the dream survive? Do you like magical realism? #translatedfiction #lovebooks https://t.co/7Z6etfDIiS

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📖 #SecondhandSunday 📖 The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald When a newcomer opens the first bookshop in a sleepy town, she makes enemies of the established businesses. Soon the fight for the direction of the town gets more and more bitter... #thebookshop #fiction #booktofilm https://t.co/wIKGHe5gGu

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📖 #SecondHandSunday 📖 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Rachel, having lost everything, finds solace by taking the train past her old house. But each day she sees the 'perfect' neighbours have their own secrets too.... Do you enjoy a multi-person narrative? 📚 https://t.co/RhghGFTHc9

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📖 #SecondhandSunday 📖 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens An orphan raised in the workhouse finds solace with a gang of pickpockets, but finds that not everyone can be trusted, and that his own history is not what he thought. #victorianliterature #charlesdickens #classics https://t.co/B6Sc93vhMV