TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee Date: March 19, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 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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NINETEEN MINUTES by Jodi Picoult Date: April 16, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
In the aftermath of a horrific small-town school shooting, lawyer Jordan McAfee finds himself defending a youth who desperately needs someone on his side, while intrepid detective Patrick DuCharme works with a primary witness in the daughter of the superior court judge assigned to the case.
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A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS by Khaled Hosseini Date: May 21, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in war-torn Kabul, losses incurred over the course of thirty years that test the limits of their strength and courage. By the author of The Kite Runner.
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LIFE OF PI by Yann Martel Date: June 18, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
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EVENING by Susan Minot Date: July 16, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Now ailing and surrounded by her children, sixty-five-year-old Ann Grant Lord reminisces about a glorious summer weekend some forty years earlier during which she met and lost the love of her life.
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SATURDAY by Ian McEwan Date: August 20, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
A successful, happily married neurosurgeon, Henry Perowne is drawn into a confrontation with Baxter, a small-time thug, following a minor motor vehicle accident on the way to his regular squash game, an encounter that has savage consequences when Baxter, believing that the doctor has humiliated him, visits the Perowne home that evening during a family reunion.
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WHITE TEETH by Zadie Smith Date: September 17, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Set in post-war London, this novel of the racial, political, and social upheaval of the last half-century follows two families--the Joneses and the Iqbals, both outsiders from within the former British empire--as they make their way in modern England. Check the catalog
BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS by Dai Sijie Date: October 15, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
At the height of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, two young boys are sent to the country for "reeducation" at a remote mountain village, where their lives take an unexpected turn when they meet the beautiful daughter of a local tailor and stumble upon a forbidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translations. Check the catalog
THE LAST LECTURE by Randy Pausch Date: November 19, 2008
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
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TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE by Audrey Niffeneggar Date: January 21, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.
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THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston
(THE BIG READ) Date: February 18, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
An enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams.
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Date: March 25, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Bring a snack to share and a list of titles to recommend for our 2009 book group reads.
FREAKONOMICS: A ROGUE ECONOMIST EXPLORES THE HIDDEN SIDE OF EVERYTHING by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Date: April 15, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Takes an unconventional look at how the economy really works, from cheating and crime to sports and child-rearing, offering a very different view on what really matters and what really drives the economy.
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THE RED TENT by Anita Diamant Date: May 20, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
In a story based on the Book of Genesis, Jacob's only daughter, Dinah, shares her unique perspectives on the origins of many of our modern religious practices and sexual politics, eager to impart the lessons in endurance and humanity she has learned fromher father's wives. Check the catalog
THE STONE DIARIES by Carol Shields Date: June 17, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
From her birth in rural Manitoba, to her journey with her father to southern Indiana, to her years as a wife, mother, and widow, to her old age, Daisy Stone Goodwill struggles to find a place for herself in her own life. Check the catalog
THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION by Michael Chabon Date: July 15, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle. But now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end. Check the catalog
IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS by Paul Auster Date: August 19, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Anna Blume, searching for her brother who has disappeared, recounts her wanderings through a modern urban reprise of the Dark Ages where she becomes a member of a scavenger class in search of objects from the past. Check the catalog
Date: September 16, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
In a humorous epic starring an unlucky man in an unlucky town, Sully must overcome numerous obstacles--a busted knee, unemployment, a broken truck, and a lack of money. Check the catalog
MY SISTER'S KEEPER by Jodi Picoult Date: October 21, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness. Check the catalog
THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO by Junot Diaz Date: November 18, 2009
7:00 pm - 8:30 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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THE POISONWOOD BIBLE by Barbara Kingsolver Date: January 20, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The family of a fierce evangelical Baptist missionary--Nathan Price, his wife, and his four daughters--begins to unravel after they embark on a 1959 mission to the Belgian Congo, where they find their lives transformed over the course of three decades.
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A LESSON BEFORE DYING by Ernest J. Gaines Date: February 17, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The story of two African American men struggling to attain manhood in a prejudiced society, the tale is set in Bayonne, La. in the late 1940s. It concerns Jefferson, a mentally slow, barely literate young man, who, though an innocent bystander to a shootout between a white store owner and two black robbers, is convicted of murder and sentenced to death, and the sophisticated, educated man who comes to his aid. Check the Catalog
THE NAMESAKE by Jhumpa Lahiri Date: March 17, 2010
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
A portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life.
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