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Baker Towers (Harper Perennial)
Baker Towers (Harper Perennial) | Jennifer Haigh
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Bakerton is a community of company houses and church festivals, of union squabbles and firemen's parades. Its neighborhoods include Little Italy, Swedetown, and Polish Hill. For its tight-knit citizens -- and the five children of the Novak family -- the 1940s will be a decade of excitement, tragedy, and stunning change. Baker Towers is a family saga and a love story, a hymn to a time and place long gone, to America's industrial past, and to the men and women we now call the Greatest Generation. It is a feat of imagination from an extraordinary voice in American fiction, a writer of enormous power and skill.
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#Rocktober Can't believe this month is almost over! @BarbaraBB has been an awesome guest host👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Another Litten will be hosting in November! @Robothugs will be back‼️‼️Now a few #black spine books sitting on my #TBR shelf😬Planning on reading Running as my November NF🤞🏼#SoManyBooksSoLittleTime

Lizpixie Do we have a playlist yet lovely? And yay! Welcome back @Robothugs knowing Jen & your fine self, it'll be another stellar month👍 7y
Cinfhen I'm still waiting for Jen to surprise us with her newest awesomeness!!! @Lizpixie (edited) 7y
Centique Yay! We love @Robothugs here too 💕🌸 7y
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BarbaraBB Hey @Robothugs welcome back! 7y
BarbaraBB Thank you @Cinfhen it has been such fun!! 7y
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daydreamin_star It's been fab! Looking forward to November! 😊 7y
Reviewsbylola 🖤🖤🖤 7y
emilyhaldi The months just keep flying by!!! 7y
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Mdargusch Ha! Just let us know. 😁 7y
Cinfhen Really?!? April, May or June are all available @Mdargusch 🙌🏻😘🎶 7y
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This is a great family saga following the lives of the Novak family that grew up in a coal mining town in Pennsylvania. The town and their heritage plays an integral part in the way they live out their lives. It was interesting to see what influence the "old country" had in the lives of the coal miners and how the families like the Novaks had to change with the times. I thought it was a great day to finish this audiobook on a walk.

Reviewsbylola Nice! I still have to read the related book. I got it through BOTM a few months ago. 7y
emilyhaldi I remember hearing about this one and Heat & Light! Adding both to my TBR 😁 looks like a great day for a walk! 7y
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These three books were recommended and loaned to me by @Reviewsbylola and so far she is 2 for 3! I haven't read Baker Tower yet, but I'm assuming I will like it as much as I liked the first two. I love having daughters that read and then recommend! #recommendedtoyou #autumnreads

Reviewsbylola I know what you like! 7y
Cinfhen I love how well you all know each other's reading preferences 💕💕💕 7y
emilyhaldi I still hate recommending books for people- too much pressure! 7y
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Baker Towers | Jennifer Haigh
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If you enjoy family sagas, pick this one up! Spanning 30 ish years in a mining town, Baker Tower follows five siblings. All five siblings make very different choices as they grow up, and their lives lead them in different directions, but Bakerton is always their home base. I loved the small town setting and the atmosphere as the book moved through the 40s, 50s, 60s and into the 70s. I can't wait to add Heat and Light to my June BOTM box!

Reviewsbylola If you read the book though, what did you think about Sandy's storyline? He pretty much just disappeared towards the end. I assumed we'd be filled in on what he was fleeing from but all we got about him after that was that he showed up for Arthur's wedding in a leisure suit. 😂 8y
Frecks-Booklover4life Sounds good! 8y
emilyhaldi Fun! 8y
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Cinfhen You know #smallTown is the prompt for Day 6 🙄😂👍🏻 8y
Reviewsbylola Ooh, can't wait to see the responses! I'll have to see what else I have on my shelves. @Cinfhen 8y
ValerieAndBooks I do enjoy family sagas! Stacking. 8y
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My kids are both asleep so I'm doing a "quick" #bathandbook with this gem. It's one of those books that has been sitting on my shelves for awhile. I have no idea how it got on my TBR but I found it on Thrift Books for a great price and snagged it. I happened to grab it for a picture the other night and @Audrey was singing its praises so I picked it up. And I just love it. It makes me wonder what other secret winners I have lurking on my shelves.

rachellayown I'm taking a writing class with her later this month! 8y
LornaDH Me, too. I have this on my kindle, on some page, ha. Also loved 8y
LornaDH Me too on the book, not the class. But I'm slightly envious, @rachellayown! 8y
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rachellayown Yes I'm very excited about it @LornaDH! 8y
Reviewsbylola That is so cool! @rachellayown 8y
Reviewsbylola I definitely plan to read more from her. @LornaDH 8y
Suzze I really liked that book, got me hooked on her writing. 8y
NCNY One of her other books was a #BOTM pick last year. It was amazing. 8y
MicheleinPhilly I second @LornaDH and @NCNY! I gave both Faith and Heat and Light 5 stars! I have a couple of her others I should probably get around to. 8y
Reviewsbylola Omg I totally didn't make the connection between the BOTM choice and this author. I know what I'm adding to my boxes next month! @NCNY @MicheleinPhilly 8y
LauraJ @NCNY Yes! Great characters 8y
Audrey Thrilled that you are enjoying the read. I wish more people would read her. @rachellayown that's amazing that you are taking a class with her. Are you in the greater Boston area? 8y
rachellayown I'm not @Audrey. She's coming to Chicago. I have to travel about 2 hours to get there, but I think it'll be worth it! 8y
emilyhaldi What a pleasant surprise! Would I like??? 8y
Cinfhen Loving this thread... 8y
SaraFair "Secret winners"- I bet I have some too. ? 8y
Reviewsbylola You can borrow it if you want. It's about a family in a small mining town in the 40s and 50s. It's told by the perspective of the five siblings. It really gives you a feel for the time. @emilyhaldi 8y
Reviewsbylola I'm still blown away by the BOTM connection. 😂 I'm so excited to add her book to my next box! @Cinfhen 8y
Reviewsbylola I bet I have way too many of them. 😂 @SaraFair 8y
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