title: Reading Group Journal: Notes in the Margin
author: Martha Burns
description: Reading group members show up at meetings with their books highlighted and dog-eared. Some carry battered spiral notebooks; others dig through their handbags for scribbled notes. Reading Group Journal now offers a handy and handsome alternative. Filled with useful information and stimulating quotes, this attractive notebook also provides ample space to record all the practical information needed to participate in a reading group.
zlib_text: > THE  
  > RATIONING
  
  > A NOVEL
  
  > CHARLES  
  > WHEELAN
  
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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the
  products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
  to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  For the Americans who  
  died during the Outbreak.
  
  CONTENTS
  
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  > > > > > > A NOTE ON SOURCES
  
  PART 1 Running the Yellow
  
  PART 2 Do the Right Thing
  
  PART 3 What If ?
  
  PART 4 It Hits the Fan
  
  PART 5 The China Option
  
  PART 6 Nature Fights Back
  
  PART 7 Okay, Now What?
  
  PART 8 The Hypothesis and the Ego
  
  > > > > > > Epilogue
  
  > > > > > > ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  A NOTE ON SOURCES
  
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  THIS BOOK IS COMPILED PRIMARILY FROM MY RECOLLECTIONS. I took notes in most of
  the important meetings. I kept a journal on those rare evenings when I had
  enough energy after leaving the White House to pen a few lines before
  collapsing into bed. To be