The World War II History Book Discussion Group will discuss Overlord\: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy by Max Hastings (Vintage\, $16.95). On June 6\, 1944\, American and British troops staged the greatest amphibious landing in history to begin Operation Overlord\, the battle to liberate Europe from the scourge of the Third Reich. Moving beyond just the storming of Omaha beach and D-Day\, he explores the Allies' push inward. Far from a gauzy romanticized remembrance\, Hastings details a grueling ten week battle to overpower the superbly trained\, geographically entrenched German Wehrmacht.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T224320Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100728T201500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100728T201500Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/jon-cotner-and-andy-fitch-will-sign-ten-walkstwo-talks URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/jon-cotner-and-andy-fitch-will-sign-ten-walkstwo-talks SUMMARY:Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch will sign Ten Walks/Two Talks DESCRIPTION:Ten Walks/Two Talks updates the meandering and meditative form of Basho's travel diaries. Mapping 21st-century New York\, Cotner and Fitch tap their predecessor's collaborative tendencies in order to construct a descriptive/dialogic fugue. The book combines a series of sixty-minute\, sixty-sentence walks around Manhattan and a pair of dialogues about walking--one of which takes place during a late-night philosophical ramble through Central Park.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T224320Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100728T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100729T000000Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/michelle-hoover-will-sign-quickening URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/michelle-hoover-will-sign-quickening SUMMARY:Michelle Hoover will sign The Quickening DESCRIPTION:Enidina Current and Mary Morrow live on neighboring farms in the flat\, hard country of the upper Midwest during the early 1900s. This hardscrabble life comes easily to some\, like Eddie\, who has never wanted more than the land she works and the animals she raises on it with her husband\, Frank. But for the deeply religious Mary\, farming is an awkward living and at odds with her more cosmopolitan inclinations. But as the Great Depression threatens\, the delicate balance of their reliance on one another tips\, pitting neighbor against neighbor\, exposing the dark secrets they hide from one another\, and triggering a series of disquieting events that threaten to unravel not only their friendship but their families as well.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T224320Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100731T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100731T190000Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/jeffrey-martin-will-sign-deadly-demented URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/jeffrey-martin-will-sign-deadly-demented SUMMARY:Jeffrey Martin will sign Deadly Demented DESCRIPTION:Homicide Detective Kelli Jordan is called to investigate a grisly murder at a local gentleman's club\, where the woman's death is only the beginning. Detective Jordan discovers a truth so revealing\, it leads her to seek out someone who is familiar with how the killer operates. Will her newfound friend be able to help her end the madman's reign of terror\, or does Lucifer\, once again\, slip away into the night?
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