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Dear LM_Netters,
        The Detroit News Book Editor, Linnea Lannon included her list of
contemporary great books "...an armful of books that made my life worth
living these past nine years." in her last column on April 27th as she is
leaving this position.
        FYI --Here is her list:
1.  "A Prayer for Own Meany" by John Irving
2.  "Means of Ascent" by Robert Caro
3.  "Rabbit at Rest" by John Updike
4.  "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
5.  "What I Lived For" by Joyce Carol Oates
6.  "A Civil Action" by Jonathan Harr
7.  "The Moor's Last Sigh" by Salman Rushdie
8.  "The Diving Bell & the Butterfly" by Jean-Dominique Bauby
9.  "The Stone Diaries" by Carol Shields
10. "My Own Country" by Abraham Verghese
11. "What It Takes" by Richard Ben Cramer
12. "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt
13. "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
14. "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" by Anne Fadiman
15. "Titan" by Ron Chernow
16. "King of the World" by David Remnick

Enjoy!
Cathy Hay LMS
Abbott MS
W. Bloomfield, MI

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