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Let's Talk Books
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Afternoon Book Club
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Meets the First Tuesday of Every Month 6 - 7 PM
This book club is for non-fiction lovers! We're meeting on the first Tuesdays of each month to discuss true stories!
This book club is for non-fiction lovers! We're meeting on the first Tuesdays of each month to discuss true stories!
Dates & selections
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July 2, 2019
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Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
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Past Selections
2019
Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear
Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
Shoemaker's Wife by Adrianna Trigiani
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
Blind Justice by Bruce Alexander
Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck
2018
Friends of Mortals by Bernard Cornwell
In the Dark Street Shineth by David McCullough
Last Paintings of Sara de Vos by Damine Smith
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America by Garry Wills
Zorro by Isabel Allende
Burr by Gore Vidal
Shadows of the Rock by Willa Cather
Code Girls: The Untold Story of American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liz Mundy
At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
Great Plains by Ian Frazer
I, Roger Williams by Mary Lee Settle
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America by Garry Wills
Zorro by Isabel Allende
Burr by Gore Vidal
Shadows of the Rock by Willa Cather
2017
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayer
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
Murder at Drury Lane: Further Adventures of the American Agent in London by Robert Lee Hall
2016
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution 1783-1789 by Joseph Ellis
H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
Have a Little Faith: A True Story by Mitch Albom
Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear
Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
Shoemaker's Wife by Adrianna Trigiani
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
Blind Justice by Bruce Alexander
Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck
2018
Friends of Mortals by Bernard Cornwell
In the Dark Street Shineth by David McCullough
Last Paintings of Sara de Vos by Damine Smith
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America by Garry Wills
Zorro by Isabel Allende
Burr by Gore Vidal
Shadows of the Rock by Willa Cather
Code Girls: The Untold Story of American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liz Mundy
At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
Great Plains by Ian Frazer
I, Roger Williams by Mary Lee Settle
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America by Garry Wills
Zorro by Isabel Allende
Burr by Gore Vidal
Shadows of the Rock by Willa Cather
2017
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayer
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
Murder at Drury Lane: Further Adventures of the American Agent in London by Robert Lee Hall
2016
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution 1783-1789 by Joseph Ellis
H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
Have a Little Faith: A True Story by Mitch Albom
Meets Second Thursday of the Month, September - May, from 2 - 3 PM
Love to read and interested in joining a book club? Our book discussion group may be for you! These informal, peer-led discussions are free and open to the public. You may discuss the current selection or just listen to the comments of other readers. The group meets monthly from September through May in the Killingly Public Library Community Room (exceptions are noted below). At each meeting, the following month's book selection will be available for checkout (a valid CT library card is required). If you have questions about obtaining a book, contact the Library: (860) 779-5383. If you are interested in joining the group, or would like more information, contact Linda Picciarelli: (860) 774-8930 or Pat van der Swaagh: (860) 774-6504.
Love to read and interested in joining a book club? Our book discussion group may be for you! These informal, peer-led discussions are free and open to the public. You may discuss the current selection or just listen to the comments of other readers. The group meets monthly from September through May in the Killingly Public Library Community Room (exceptions are noted below). At each meeting, the following month's book selection will be available for checkout (a valid CT library card is required). If you have questions about obtaining a book, contact the Library: (860) 779-5383. If you are interested in joining the group, or would like more information, contact Linda Picciarelli: (860) 774-8930 or Pat van der Swaagh: (860) 774-6504.
Dates & selections
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May 9, 2019
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Townie by Andre Dubus III
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Past Selections
2018 - 2019
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Educated by Tara Westover
The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis
The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff
2017-2018
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
The Curse by Bob Steele
Take Me with You by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space by Margot Lee Shetterly
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D.Vance
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
The Hundred Year Old Man Who Crawled Out a Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
2016-2017
Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee
All the Light You Cannot See, Anthony Doer
Black Water Rising or Pleasantville, Attica Locke
Young Elizabeth: The Making of a Queen, Kate Williams
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
The Sound of Glass by Karen White
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
2015 - 2016
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
Turn of Mind, Alice LaPlante
The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
The Girl You Left Behind, Jojo Moyes
The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah
Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring, Alexander Rose
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
2014 – 2015
1984, George Orwell & Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzia
The Round House, Louise Erdrich
The Wives of Los Alamos, TaraShea Nesbit
Defending Jacob, William Landay
Gone Girl, Jillian Flynn
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
The Housmaid’s Daughter, Barbara Mutch
The Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline
2013 – 2014
Caleb’s Crossing, Geraldine Brooks
The Light Between Oceans, M.L. Stedman
The Invisible Bridge, Julie Orringer
Dewey – The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, Vicki Myron with Brett Witter
The Paris Wife, Paula Mclain
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
The Yellow House, Patricia Falvey
Baking Cakes in Kigali, Gaile Parkin
Dinner with the Smiley’s, Jane Smiley
2012 – 2013
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
Killing Lincoln, Bill O’Reilly
Clara and Mr. Tiffany, Susan Vreeland
The Lost Constitution, William Martin
The Lost Wife, Alyson Richman
The Snowball-Warren Buffet and the Business of Life, Alice Schroeder
Wait Till Next Year, Doris Kearns Goodwin
Wild, Cheryl Strayed
QCR selection – Tag Man, Archer Mayer
2011 – 2012
The Island, Victoria Hislop
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Helen Simonson
Mutant Message Down Under, Marlo Morgan
Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
Left Neglected, Lisa Genova
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
2010 – 2011
In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
Cane River, Lalita Tademy
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
Walking Across Egypt, Clyde Edgerton
Sarah’s Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
Lottery, Patricia Wood
Ireland, Frank Delaney
Half Broke Horses, Jeannette Walls
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
2009 – 2010
World Without End, Ken Follett
The Lace Reader, Brunonia Barry
People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
Two Old Women, Velma Wallis
The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
Still Alice, Lisa Genova
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
The Elegance of the Hedge Hog, Muriel Barberry
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
2008 – 2009
Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
A Parting Gift, Ben Erickson
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
Three Bags Full, Leonie Swann
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
Girls of Tender Age, Mary Ann Tirone Smith
2007 – 2008
Colony, Anne Rivers Siddons
The Sportswriter, Richard Ford
Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick
Le Divorce, Diane Johnson
Empire Falls, Richard Russo
Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse
The Swallows of Kabul, Yasmina Khadra
My Year of the Meats, Ruth L. Ozeki
2006 – 2007
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
Sight Unseen, Georgina Kleege
One Thousand White Women, Jim Fergus
In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
A Good Year, Peter Mayle
Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
An Elizabeth Berg book
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
2005 – 2006
The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
In the Fall, Jeffrey Lent
The Saving Graces, Patricia Gaffney
Widow of the South, Robert Hicks
The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
The Piano Tuner, Daniel Mason
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards
One Writer’s Beginnings, Eudora Welty
2004 – 2005
Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson
The Mapmakers Wife, Robert Whitaker
Ice Bound, Jerri Nielsen
A Miracle for St. Cecilia’s, Katherine Valentine
Fortune’s Rocks, Anita Shreve
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
In the Castle of the Flynns, Michael Raleigh
The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
The Black Englishman, Carolyn Slaughter
2003 – 2004
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
A female bio. or autobio.
Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry
The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie
The Passion of Artemisia, Susan Vreeland
My Antonia, Willa Cather
2002 – 2003
Plum Island, Nelson DeMille
Suspicion of Betrayal, Barbara Parker
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Skipping Christmas, John Grissom
Man and Boy, Tony Parsons
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Plain Truth, Jodi Picoult
Power Politics, Arundhati Roy
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
200l – 2002
The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Peace Like A River, Leif Enger
Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
The Road From Coorain, Jill Ker Conway
Plainsong, Kent Haruf
The Language of Threads, Gail Tsukiyama
2000 – 2001
White Oleander, Janet Fitch
The Last Hurrah, Edwin O’Connor
The Dress Lodger, Sheri Holman
How to Make an American Quilt, Whitney Otto
The Charm School, Nelson DeMille
Mr. Perfect, Linda Howard
Ahab’s Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund
1999 – 2000
The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw
The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
At Home in Mitford, Jan Karon
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
The Hungry Ocean, Linda Greenlaw
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
1998 – 1999
Wild Swans, Jung Chang
The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
Little Altars Everywhere, Rebecca Wells
We Are Our Mother’s Daughters, Cokie Roberts
The Color of Water, James McBride
Trinity, Leon Uris
Midwives, Chris Bohjalian
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Charming Billy, Alice McDermott
1997 – 1998
A Civil Action, Jonathan Harr
Mystery Writer Presentation by Janice Law
Songs in Ordinary Times, Mary McGarry Morris
Map of the World, Jane Hamilton
The Christmas Box, Richard Paul Evans
The Pull of the Moon, Elizabeth Berg
The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
The Giant’s House, Elizabeth McCracken
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
Charms for the Easy Life, Kaye Gibbons
1996 – 1997
I Was Amelia Earhart, Jane Mendelsohn
The Paper Boy, Peter Dexter
Deep End of the Ocean, Jacquelyn Mitchard
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
Stones From the River, Ursula Hegi
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Daisy Fay and The Miracle Man, Fannie Flagg
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Educated by Tara Westover
The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis
The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff
2017-2018
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
The Curse by Bob Steele
Take Me with You by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space by Margot Lee Shetterly
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D.Vance
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict
The Hundred Year Old Man Who Crawled Out a Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
2016-2017
Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee
All the Light You Cannot See, Anthony Doer
Black Water Rising or Pleasantville, Attica Locke
Young Elizabeth: The Making of a Queen, Kate Williams
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
The Sound of Glass by Karen White
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
2015 - 2016
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
Turn of Mind, Alice LaPlante
The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
The Girl You Left Behind, Jojo Moyes
The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah
Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring, Alexander Rose
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
2014 – 2015
1984, George Orwell & Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzia
The Round House, Louise Erdrich
The Wives of Los Alamos, TaraShea Nesbit
Defending Jacob, William Landay
Gone Girl, Jillian Flynn
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
The Housmaid’s Daughter, Barbara Mutch
The Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline
2013 – 2014
Caleb’s Crossing, Geraldine Brooks
The Light Between Oceans, M.L. Stedman
The Invisible Bridge, Julie Orringer
Dewey – The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, Vicki Myron with Brett Witter
The Paris Wife, Paula Mclain
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
The Yellow House, Patricia Falvey
Baking Cakes in Kigali, Gaile Parkin
Dinner with the Smiley’s, Jane Smiley
2012 – 2013
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
Killing Lincoln, Bill O’Reilly
Clara and Mr. Tiffany, Susan Vreeland
The Lost Constitution, William Martin
The Lost Wife, Alyson Richman
The Snowball-Warren Buffet and the Business of Life, Alice Schroeder
Wait Till Next Year, Doris Kearns Goodwin
Wild, Cheryl Strayed
QCR selection – Tag Man, Archer Mayer
2011 – 2012
The Island, Victoria Hislop
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Helen Simonson
Mutant Message Down Under, Marlo Morgan
Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
Left Neglected, Lisa Genova
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
2010 – 2011
In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
Cane River, Lalita Tademy
The Help, Kathryn Stockett
Walking Across Egypt, Clyde Edgerton
Sarah’s Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
Lottery, Patricia Wood
Ireland, Frank Delaney
Half Broke Horses, Jeannette Walls
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
2009 – 2010
World Without End, Ken Follett
The Lace Reader, Brunonia Barry
People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
Two Old Women, Velma Wallis
The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
Still Alice, Lisa Genova
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
The Elegance of the Hedge Hog, Muriel Barberry
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
2008 – 2009
Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
A Parting Gift, Ben Erickson
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
Three Bags Full, Leonie Swann
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
Girls of Tender Age, Mary Ann Tirone Smith
2007 – 2008
Colony, Anne Rivers Siddons
The Sportswriter, Richard Ford
Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick
Le Divorce, Diane Johnson
Empire Falls, Richard Russo
Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse
The Swallows of Kabul, Yasmina Khadra
My Year of the Meats, Ruth L. Ozeki
2006 – 2007
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
Sight Unseen, Georgina Kleege
One Thousand White Women, Jim Fergus
In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
A Good Year, Peter Mayle
Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
An Elizabeth Berg book
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
2005 – 2006
The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
In the Fall, Jeffrey Lent
The Saving Graces, Patricia Gaffney
Widow of the South, Robert Hicks
The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
The Piano Tuner, Daniel Mason
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Kim Edwards
One Writer’s Beginnings, Eudora Welty
2004 – 2005
Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson
The Mapmakers Wife, Robert Whitaker
Ice Bound, Jerri Nielsen
A Miracle for St. Cecilia’s, Katherine Valentine
Fortune’s Rocks, Anita Shreve
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
In the Castle of the Flynns, Michael Raleigh
The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
The Black Englishman, Carolyn Slaughter
2003 – 2004
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
A female bio. or autobio.
Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry
The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie
The Passion of Artemisia, Susan Vreeland
My Antonia, Willa Cather
2002 – 2003
Plum Island, Nelson DeMille
Suspicion of Betrayal, Barbara Parker
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Skipping Christmas, John Grissom
Man and Boy, Tony Parsons
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Plain Truth, Jodi Picoult
Power Politics, Arundhati Roy
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
200l – 2002
The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Peace Like A River, Leif Enger
Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
The Road From Coorain, Jill Ker Conway
Plainsong, Kent Haruf
The Language of Threads, Gail Tsukiyama
2000 – 2001
White Oleander, Janet Fitch
The Last Hurrah, Edwin O’Connor
The Dress Lodger, Sheri Holman
How to Make an American Quilt, Whitney Otto
The Charm School, Nelson DeMille
Mr. Perfect, Linda Howard
Ahab’s Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund
1999 – 2000
The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw
The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
At Home in Mitford, Jan Karon
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
The Hungry Ocean, Linda Greenlaw
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
1998 – 1999
Wild Swans, Jung Chang
The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
Little Altars Everywhere, Rebecca Wells
We Are Our Mother’s Daughters, Cokie Roberts
The Color of Water, James McBride
Trinity, Leon Uris
Midwives, Chris Bohjalian
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Charming Billy, Alice McDermott
1997 – 1998
A Civil Action, Jonathan Harr
Mystery Writer Presentation by Janice Law
Songs in Ordinary Times, Mary McGarry Morris
Map of the World, Jane Hamilton
The Christmas Box, Richard Paul Evans
The Pull of the Moon, Elizabeth Berg
The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
The Giant’s House, Elizabeth McCracken
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
Charms for the Easy Life, Kaye Gibbons
1996 – 1997
I Was Amelia Earhart, Jane Mendelsohn
The Paper Boy, Peter Dexter
Deep End of the Ocean, Jacquelyn Mitchard
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
Stones From the River, Ursula Hegi
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Daisy Fay and The Miracle Man, Fannie Flagg
***Pick up copies of book club selections at circulation.