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  2. Book discussion club - Wikipedia

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    It is often simply called a book club, a term that may cause confusion with a book sales club. Other terms include reading group, book group, and book discussion group. Book discussion clubs may meet in private homes, libraries, bookstores, online forums, pubs, and cafés, or restaurants, sometimes over meals or drinks.

  3. Lilian Moore - Wikipedia

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    Lilian Moore (pen name, Sara Asheron; March 17, 1909–July 20, 2004), was a writer of children's books, teacher and poet.She founded and edited for Scholastic's Arrow Book Club, a low-cost mail-order paperback service for children.

  4. Book club - Wikipedia

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    Book club may refer to: Book discussion club, a group of people who meet to discuss a book or books that they have read Literature circle, a group of students who meet in a classroom to discuss a book or books that they have read; Book sales club, a subscription-based method of selling and purchasing books

  5. Umbrella (children's book) - Wikipedia

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    Umbrella is a short story where a little girl is the principal character. Her name is Momo, which means "peach" in Japanese, and she was born in New York. [2] Momo carries the blue umbrella and wears the rubber boots that she was given on her third birthday. She asks her mother every day to use her umbrella.

  6. Jonas Hanway - Wikipedia

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    Jonas Hanway FRSA (12 August 1712 – 5 September 1786), was a British philanthropist, polemicist, merchant and traveller. [1] He was the first male Londoner to carry an umbrella and was a noted opponent of tea drinking.

  7. Reading group discussion guide for Oprah's book club ... - AOL

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    Dive deeper into Eckhart Tolle's transformative book, "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose," with our comprehensive reader's guide. Reading group discussion guide for Oprah's book club ...

  8. Umbrella - Wikipedia

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    Parts of an umbrella [2]. The word parasol is a combination of the Latin parare, and sol, meaning 'sun'. [3] Parapluie (French) similarly consists of para combined with pluie, which means 'rain' (which in turn derives from pluvia, the Latin word for rain); the usage of this word was prevalent in the nineteenth century.

  9. History of the umbrella - Wikipedia

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