April 18: 7pm -- BIBLICAL HISTORICAL FICTION MONTH!
The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant
The Red Tent illuminates the intriguing biblical story of Dinah that
novelist Anita Diamant brought alive. "An intense, vivid novel... It is
tempting to say that The Red Tent is what the Bible would be like if it had
been written by women, but only Duamant could have given it such sweep and
grace" - The Boston Globe.
May 16: 7pm -SPIRITUAL MEMOIR MONTH
Measure of a Man, by Sidney Poitier
In this unabridged memoir, Sidney Poitier recounts the inspring story of his
rise from childhood poverty in the Bahamas to a life marked by grace,
success, and material and spiritual riches.
June 20: 7pm - HISTORICAL NOVEL
The Killer Angels
A superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is
its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant.
July 18: Fiction
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
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Still Alice is a compelling DEBUT novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University.
August 15: Fiction
Room by Emma Donoghue
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Emma Donoghue’s remarkable new novel, “Room,” is built on two intense constraints: the limited point of view of the narrator, a 5-year-old boy named Jack; and the confines of Jack’s physical world, an 11-by-11-foot room where he lives with his mother. We enter the book strongly planted within these restrictions.
September 19: Biography
Paris Wife by Paula McLain
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The heroine of “The Paris Wife” is Hadley Richardson, the athletic, sturdily built, admittedly unfashionable homebody who married Ernest Hemingway in 1921. They were divorced in 1927. Hadley was, by all accounts including this one, a very fine and decent person, but she was the starter wife of a man who wound up treating her terribly. Had she not married him, no novelist would be telling her story.
October 17th: Mystery
The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg
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This is a second in a series. You may want to but don't have to read The Ice Princess first. Kati read it and loved.
November 14th(due to Thanksgiving week): Biography in honor of Veteran's Day
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
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December 19th
Social Event - no book
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