What they are reading in LaVale.

	People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks In 1996, Hanna Heath, a young Australian book conservator is called to analyze the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a priceless six-hundred-year-old Jewish prayer book that has been salvaged from a destroyed Bosnian library. When Hanna discovers a series of artifacts in the centuries’ old, she unwittingly exposes an international cover up.
	Longitude: the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time, Dava Sobel
	Botany of Desire: a plant’s-eye view of the world, Michael Pollan
	Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard

These and many more are available at your Allegany County Library!

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