Group meets on the second Monday evening of each month from 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Scheduled Meetings:
Monday, January 14, 2008 (Fireplace gathering)
Fiction
Love in the Time of Cholera
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, the story traces a
half-century of unrequited love.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Non-Fiction
Measure of a Man: a Spiritual Autobiography
Poitier, Sidney
The acclaimed actor reveals the passion, spirituality, and intellectual
fervor that have driven his life and career, citing the elements of his
childhood that gave him his sense of worth and ethics.
Monday, March 10, 2008 (Everyone's Reading
Selection)
Fiction
Beekeeper's Apprentice, or, on the Segregation of the
Queen
King, Laurie R.
A chance meeting with a Sussex beekeeper turns into a pivotal
transformation when fifteen-year-old Mary Russell discovers that the
beekeeper is the retired detective Sherlock Holmes, who soon becomes
mentor and teacher.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Non-Fiction
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived
the Great American Dust Bowl
Egan, Timothy
An oral history of the dust storms that devastated the Great Plains
during the Depression, following several families and their communities
in their struggle to persevere despite the devastation.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Fiction
True History of the Kelly Gang
Carey, Peter
Ned Kelly, the legendary nineteenth-century Australian folk-hero,
describes how he, his brother, and two friends led authorities on a
twenty-month manhunt, marked by widespread populist support, before his
capture and execution.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Non-Fiction
The Cork Boat
Pollack, John
A former White House speechwriter describes how he gave up his job to
pursue his dream of building a boat made entirely of wine corks, and
his voyage down the Douro River in Portugal.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Fiction
Falling Man: a novel
DeLillo, Don
Escaping from the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks,
Keith makes his way to the uptown apartment where his ex-wife and young
son are living and considers how the day's events have irrevocably
changed his perception of the world.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Joint Adult/Teen Discussion
Non-Fiction
Persepolis
Satrapi, Marjane
Wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the
Islamic Revolution told in powerful black-and-white comic strip images.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Fiction
Age of Innocence
Wharton, Edith
Deeply moving study of the tyrannical and rigid requirements of New
York high society in the late 19th century and the effect of those
strictures on the lives of 3 people.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Non-Fiction
Travels With Charley: in Search of America
Steinbeck, John
Steinbeck records his emotions and experiences during a journey of
rediscovery in his native land.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Fiction
Suite Francaise
Nemirovsky, Irene
Published more than sixty years following the author's death at
Auschwitz, a remarkable story of life under the Nazi occupation
including the chaotic 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi
invasion.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Non-Fiction
Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
Grogran, John
Labrador retrievers are generally considered even-tempered, calm and
reliable; and then there's Marley, the subject of this delightful
tribute to one Lab who doesn't fit the mold.
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