Pageturners Book Group

01/08/2013 9:30 pm

PAGETURNERS BOOK GROUP
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Anderson’s welcomes the Pageturners Book Group, a club that focuses on non-fiction books. This month’s title is Jennet Conant’s A Covert Affair. Please read the book, and join our lively discussion. New members are invited to participate, but are asked to please call and register: (630) 355-2665.

JANUARY, 8 at 9:30 a.m.
Anderson's Two-Doors East
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A Covert Affair: When Julia and Paul Child joined the OSS they had no way of knowing that their adventures with the spy service (Paperback)

By Jennet Conant
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781439163535
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Simon & Schuster, 11/2011
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Bestselling author Jennet Conant brings us a stunning account of Julia and Paul Child’s experiences as members of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the Far East during World War II and the tumultuous years when they were caught up in the McCarthy Red spy hunt in the 1950s and behaved with bravery and honor. It is the fascinating portrait of a group of idealistic men and women who were recruited by the citizen spy service, slapped into uniform, and dispatched to wage political warfare in remote outposts in Ceylon, India, and China.

The eager, inexperienced 6 foot 2 inch Juli...

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