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Our August book of the month is Travels With Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck!

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An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in a deluxe centennial edition
In september 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and tress, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pick up truck named Rocinante. His course took him through almost forty states: northward from Long Island to Maine; through the midwest to Chicago; onward by way of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana (with which he fell in love), and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace Salinas; eastward through Mojave, New Mexico, to Arizona, to the vast hospitality of Texas, to New Orleans and a shocking drama of desegregation; finally, on the last leg, through Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to New York. Travels with Charley in search of America is an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life-a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South-which Steinbeck witness firsthand-Travels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade