ENEMIES: A LOVE STORY by Isaac Bashevis Singer Date: August 08, 2007
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha , his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife, miraculously returned from the dead. Astonished by each new complication, and yet resigned to a life of evasion, Herman navigates a crowded, Yiddish New York with a sense of perpetually impending doom.
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POLAR STAR by Martin Cruz Smith Date: September 12, 2007
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Once Moscow's top criminal investigator, Arkady Renko now toils in obscurity on a Russian factory ship working with American trawlers in the middle of the Bering Sea. But when an adventurous female crew member is picked up dead with the day's catch, Renko is ordered by his captain to investigate an accident that has all the marks of murder.
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MY NAME IS RED by Orhan Pamuk Date: October 10, 2007
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
A furor erupts when the Sultan hires a group of artists, under the direction of Master Uncle, to illuminate a great book in the European style to celebrate his reign at a time in which all figurative art is considered Islamic heresy, but the situation becomes worse when one of the miniaturists vanishes, in a mystery set against the backdrop of religious repression in sixteenth-century Istanbul.
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THE BOOK THIEF by Markus Zusak Date: December 12, 2007
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Set during World War II in Germany, this new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau. This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.
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THREE CUPS OF TEA by Greg Mortenson Date: February 11, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Traces how the author, having been rescued and resuscitated by Himalayan villagers after a failed attempt to climb K2, worked to build schools that would benefit the young girls who were forbidden an education by Taliban restrictions. Check the Catalog
UNACCUSTOMED EARTH by Jhumpa Lahiri Date: March 11, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Exploring the secrets and complexities lying at the heart of family life and relationships, a collection of eight stories includes the title work, about a young mother in a new city whose father tends her garden while hiding a secret love affair. Check the Catalog
THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG by Muriel Barbery Date: May 13, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu. Check the Catalog
THE LACE READER by Brunonia Barry Date: June 10, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Having left her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, fifteen years ago under troubling circumstances, psychic Towner Whitney reluctantly returns after her eighty-five-year-old great-aunt Eva suddenly disappears and joins local cop John Rafferty in his investigation into the mystery.
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PEOPLE OF THE BOOK by Geraldine Brooks Date: July 08, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
From the Pulitzer Prize –winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war. Check the Catalog
THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows Date: August 12, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey, who tells her about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation. Check the Catalog
THE WHITE TIGER by Aravind Adiga Date: September 09, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Relocating to New Delhi when he is offered a new job, Balram Halwai is Disillusioned by the city's 21st century materialism and technology-spawned violence, a circumstance that forces him to question his loyalties, ambitions, and past. Check the Catalog
FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury Date: October 14, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit. Check the Catalog
EMBERS by Sándor Márai Date: November 18, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Following a forty-one year separation, two men reunite in a castle at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains to share stories and accusations touching on their lives and that of a third person, the now-dead lady of the castle. Check the Catalog Because the Library is closed on Nov 11, this meeting will be off schedule.
BREATHING LESSONS by Anne Tyler Date: November 14, 2007
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
During a ninety-mile drive to her best friend's husband's funeral, Maggie and her husband, Ira, recall and revaluate the details of their twenty-eight-year marriage. The book captured the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1989.
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THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston Date: January 09, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is a luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern black woman in the 1930s whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to seventy years.
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THE ACCIDENTAL by Ali Smith Date: February 13, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Winner of the Whitbread Award for best novel and a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, The Accidental is the virtuoso new novel by the singularly gifted Ali Smith. Here, in a novel at once profound, playful, and exhilaratingly inventive, she transfixes us with a portrait of a family unraveled by a mysterious visitor.
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee Date: March 12, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
The explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a Black man accused of rape. more info
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THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS by Arundhati Roy Date: April 09, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
In 1969 in Kerala, India, Rahel and her twin brother, Estha, struggle to forge a childhood for themselves amid the destrucion of their family life, as they discover that the entire world can be transformed in a single moment.
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REIVERS: A REMINISCENCE by William Faulkner Date: May 14, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Great comic novel of 3 young men who "borrow" an automobile for a hilarious journey in Memphis. Wild humor and frenetic action do not, however, obscure the development of moving and tender human relationships and moral insights into human conduct.
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DISGRACE by J.M. Coetzee Date: June 11, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
In a novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, a fifty-two-year-old college professor who has lost his job for sleeping with a student tries to relate to his daughter, Lucy, who works with an ambitious African farmer.
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THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy Date: July 09, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity. Pulitzer Prize Winner; National Book Critic's Circle Award Finalist.
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BEL CANTO by Ann Patchett Date: August 13, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
When terrorists seize hostages at an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people is thrown together, including American opera star Roxane Coss, and Mr. Hosokawa, a Japanese CEO and her biggest fan.
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ART OF MENDING by Elizabeth Berg Date: September 10, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Returning home for a family reunion, Laura Bartone and her brother, Steve, are stunned by their sister's allegations of shocking behavior on the part of their mother, and must come to terms with the truth and lies within their family.
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THE MAYTREES by Annie Dillard Date: October 08, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Sharing a simple life with his wife and young son in the post-war artist community of his childhood, free-thinking poet Toby Maytree is aided with child-care responsibilities by close friend Deary, who years later comes between Toby and his wife.
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A PLACE OF SAFETY: A CHIEF INSPECTOR BARNABY MYSTERY by Caroline Graham Date: November 12, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
The charming English village of Ferne Basset is turned upside down by the murder of local man who had recently witnessed the "suicide" of a young woman who was in trouble with the law.
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RUN by Ann Patchett Date: December 10, 2008
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Struggling with single parenthood and a scandal that cost him his political career, Bernard Doyle fights his disappointment with his adopted sons' career choices before a violent event forces the members of his family to reconsider their priorities.
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BRIDGE OF SIGHS by Richard Russo Date: January 14, 2009
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
After sixty years of living in the upstate New York town of Thomaston with his wife of forty years, indomitable mother, and grown son, Louis Charles and his wife Sarah prepare for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Italy to visit his childhood friend, an artist who had fled his hometown many years earlier, where he hopes to come to terms with the secrets of small-town life and their individual fates.
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