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I'm interested in sharing with others books of a non fiction nature. I love history either European or American. Also biographies, memoirs.

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Daffodil56's profile

You are invited...

It's time again and we are inviting you to come to Eons Book Gallery Group site view link to meet with authors, chat with them - enjoy free workshops, win prizes in contests and learn all about th... | posted by Daffodil56
kel10514's profile

Memoir & Current Events

Hi All, I am new to the group and look forward to chatting with you about nonfiction reads that interest us this Fall. I head up the Online Marketing team at Hachette Book Group and welcome you to... | posted by kel10514
1 reply - last reply: "Kel -- are you still in that job?... more" ~ Plainoldme
Plainoldme's profile

Why Doesn't more go on here?

Are people too busy reading? I hope so! Are there more than one non-fiction bookgroup? Perhaps, eons needs to limit the number of groups covering a subject. | posted by Plainoldme
Plainoldme's profile

Posting here where no one will read this . . .

for all stuck in dead end jobs . . . here is a woman the same age as my son (29) who started working as a cashier in college and never found another job. She began a blog which was read by real peo... | posted by Plainoldme
webserf's profile

Why We Make Mistakes

Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average by Joseph T. Hallinan This is a popularized survey of research in psych... | posted by webserf
Plainoldme's profile

Slavery By Another Name

A new book by Douglas Blackmon, Atlanta bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, examines how slavery -- unnamed and unrecognized -- virtually continued from Reconstruction to WWII. To learn more... | posted by Plainoldme
1 reply - last reply: "Wow! I posted this so long ago that... more" ~ Plainoldme
webserf's profile

Why Things Break

I just finished reading Why Things Break by Mark E. Eberhart. It is about why different materials break (or bend or stretch, etc.) under different circumstances. It tells why the Titanic sunk (cont... | posted by webserf
Plainoldme's profile

French Dirt

The name of a terrific book by Richard Goodman | posted by Plainoldme
webserf's profile

A Season of Fire by Douglas Gantenbein

In 2001, the author went through the training to get "red-carded" (certified as a basic wildland firefighter) and then spent the rest of the fire season chasing fires and interviewing firefighters ... | posted by webserf
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Valuable Information

I recently read "How Doctors Think" by Jerome Groopman, M.D. This book validated a lot of my personal thoughts about how one must be proactive in their own health care and went a step further in gi... | posted by Luvstolaff
2 replies - last reply: "Sounds like a good book. I remember... more" ~ webserf

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