THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER by Kim Edwards Date: August 27, 2007
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
In a tale spanning twenty-five years, a doctor delivers his newborn twin daughter during a snowstorm and, rashly deciding to protect his wife from the baby's affliction with Down Syndrome, turns her over to a nurse, who secretly raises the child.
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Date: September 17, 2007
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The National Humanities Medal-winning author of The Poisonwood Bible follows the author's family's efforts to live on locally and home-grown foods, an endeavor through which they learned lighthearted truths about food production and the connection between health and diet. Her first nonfiction narrative will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.
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FALL LINE: A TALE OF OLD JAMESTOWN by Errol Burland Date: October 22, 2007
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
In 1674 circumstances drive Lyn Duke, Nat Bacon, and John Grey from the protective environment of their native Suffolk to the challenges of strife-ridden colonial Virginia. Errol Burland, a retired attorney, lives in Central Virginia and will be at the Library to discuss her book and help celebrate Nelson's Bicentennial.
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WATER FOR ELEPHANTS by Sara Gruen Date: November 19, 2007
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.
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THE LAST CHINESE CHEF by Nicole Mones Date: December 17, 2007
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Struggling to get back on her feet in the wake of her husband's premature death and stunned by a paternity suit against her husband's estate, food writer Maggie McElroy plans a trip to China to investigate the claim and to profile rising chef Sam Liang, who introduces her to the Chinese concept of food, while drawing her into his extended family and helping her come to terms with her life.
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OPTIMISTS DAUGHTER by Eudora Welty Date: January 28, 2008
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Laurel Hand is forced to face her Southern past when she returns to Mississippi for her father's funeral. This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations.
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IN THE WOODS by Tana French Date: February 25, 2008
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Twenty years after witnessing the violent disappearances of two companions from their small Dublin suburb, detective Rob Ryan investigates a chillingly similar murder that takes place in the same wooded area, a case that forces him to piece together his traumatic memories.
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WATER FOR ELEPHANTS by Sara Gruen Date: March 24, 2008
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee Date: April 28, 2008
12:00 pm - 2:00 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. Led by PVCC Professor Ben Sloan. more info
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UNCOMMON READER by Alan Bennett Date: May 19, 2008
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Obliged to borrow a book when her corgis stray into a mobile library, the Queen discovers a passion for reading, setting the palace upon its head and causing the royal head of Great Britain to question her role in the monarchy.
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CARPE DIEM by Autumm Cornwell Date: June 23, 2008
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Sixteen-year-old Vassar Spore's detailed plans for the next twenty years of her life are derailed when her bohemian grandmother insists that she join her in Southeast Asia for the summer, but as she writes a novel about her experiences, Vassar discovers new possibilities.
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A WALK IN THE WOODS by Bill Bryson
Date: July 28, 2008
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Published on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Appalachian Trail, a wry account by the author of The Lost Continent traces an adventurous trek past the trail's natural pleasures, human eccentrics, and offbeat comforts.
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SHADOW DIVERS: THE TRUE ADVENTURE OF TWO AMERICANS WHO RISKED EVERYTHING TO SOLVE ONE OF THE LAST MYSTERIES OF WORLD WAR II by Robert Kurson Date: August 25, 2008
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Recounts the 1991 discovery of a sunken German U-boat by two recreational scuba divers, tracing how they devoted the following six years to researching the identities of the submarine and its crew, correcting historical texts and breaking new grounds in the world of diving along the way.
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SUITE FRANCAISE by Irene Nemirovsky Date: September 22, 2008
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Published more than sixty years following the author's death at Auschwitz, a remarkable story of life under the Nazi occupation includes two parts--"A Storm in June," set amid the chaotic 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion, and "Dolce," set in a German-occupied provincial village rife with jealousy, resentment, resistance, and collaboration.
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THREE CUPS OF TEA by Greg Mortenson Date: October 27, 2008
12:00 pm - 2:00 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 particularly benefit the young girls who were forbidden an education by Taliban restrictions, an endeavor for which his life has been repeatedly threatened.
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THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO by Junot Diaz Date: November 17, 2008
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Living with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a long-standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness.
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Date: December 15, 2008
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Read anything and share your books. Plus annual cookie exchange
PILLARS OF THE EARTH by Ken Follett Date: January 26, 2009
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Set in twelfth-century England, this epic of kings and peasants juxtaposes the building of a magnificent church with the violence and treachery that often characterized the Middle Ages.
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ON CHESIL BEACH by Ian McEwan
Date: February 23, 2009
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
On their wedding day, a young couple--Florence, daughter of an Oxford academic and a successful businessman, and Edward, an earnest history student with little experience of women--looks forward to the future while worrying about their upcoming wedding night.
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THE DOUBLE BIND by Christopher Bohjalian Date: March 23, 2009
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Withdrawing into her photography and a job at a homeless shelter after being attacked while riding her bike, student Laurel Estabrook encounters Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of secret photos, but when Bobbie dies suddenly, Laurel is certain that the photos hide a dark family secret and embarks on an obsessive, potentially dangerous search for the truth.
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THE TORTILLA CURTAIN by T. Coraghessan Boyle Date: April 27, 2009
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
The lives of two different couples - wealthy Los Angeles liberals, and a pair of Mexican illegals - suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various characters.
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NEVER ENOUGH by Joe McGinnis Date: May 18, 2009
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
The author of Fatal Vision examines the suspicious death of Andrew Kissel, who had received custody of his murdered brother's children three years earlier and whose own killing remains unsolved. Check the Catalog
FAIR AND TENDER LADIES by Lee Smith Date: June 22, 2009
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
A series of letters, written to family and friends, reveals the life and times of Ivy Rowe, as she grows from girlhood to old age, finds love, dreams great visions, and raises a family.
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GODS BITS OF WOOD by Sembene Ousmane Date: July 27, 2009
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
In 1947-48 the workers on the Dakar-Niger railway staged a strike. In this vivid, timeless novel, Sembene Ousmane envinces the color, passion, and tragedy of those formative years in the history of West Africa. Melissa Hutchinson will be presenting a slide show and exhibit of her time spent in Senegal, Africa.
FOUNDING MOTHERS: THE WOMEN WHO RAISED OUR NATION by Cokie Roberts Date: August 31, 2009
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
An inspirational but personal look into the trials and tribulations of historical women who helped shape our nation into what it has become exhibits the many facets of their lives and how they supported some of the founders of our country, profiling such key figures as Abigail Adams, Eliza Pinkney, Dolley Payne Madison, Deborah Read Franklin, and Catherine Littlefield Greene. Check the Catalog
THE HELP by Kathryn Stokett Date: September 21, 2009
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another. Check the Catalog
DEWEY THE SMALL-TOWN LIBRARY CAT WHO TOUCHED THE WORLD by Vicki Myron Date: October 19, 2009
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Traces the author's discovery of a half-frozen kitten in the drop-box of her small-community Iowa library and the feline's development into an affable library mascot whose intuitive nature prompted hundreds of abiding friendships, in a tale told against a backdrop of the town's struggles with the 1980s farm crisis.
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Date: November 23, 2009
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Everyone can discuss what they have been reading.
AN IRISH COUNTRY DOCTOR by Patrick Taylor Date: December 14, 2009
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Conjures up the rural Irish town of Ballybucklebo where there are engaging and eccentric townspeople, whose hilarious mishaps provide a perfect foil for the endeavors of the town’s medical men. Check the Catalog There will also be a holiday cookie exchange.