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Sept. 12,
2011 |
Animal,
Vegetable,
Miracle
by Barbara
Kingsolver
(Note:
Because of
Labor Day we
will meet
the 2nd
Monday of
September)
Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, this book tells the story of how
Kingsolver and her family were changed by one year of deliberately eating food
produced in the place where they live.
Recipes included!
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Oct.
3, 2011 |
The Leisure
Seeker
by Michael
Zandoorian
Ella suffers
from cancer
and John has
Alzheimer's.
Yearning for
one last
adventure,
they kidnap
themselves
from the
adult
children and
doctors who
seem to run
their lives
to steal
away from
home in
suburban
Detroit on a
forbidden
vacation of
rediscovery.
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Nov.
7, 2011 |
The Solace
of Leaving
Early
by Haven
Kimmel
Part
romance,
part
tragedy,
part comedy,
Kimmel's
debut novel,
set in a
small town
in Indiana,
is a joyous
story about
finding
one's better
self through
accepting
the
short-comings
of others.
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Dec.
5, 2011 |
Doc
by Mary
Doria
Russell
Beautifully
educated and
born to the
life of a
Southern
gentleman,
Dr. John
Henry
Holliday was
much more
than a
frontier
gambler.
Written with
compassion,
humor, and
respect,
Russell's
novel tells
the story of
his life
before the
O.K. Corral.
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Feb.
6, 2012 |
Digging to
America
by Anne
Tyler
Two
families-the
Donaldsons,
a very
American
couple, and
the Yazdans,
an Iranian
American
couple-meet
by chance at
the
Baltimore
airport,
their lives
becoming
deeply
intertwined
as they both
await the
arrival of
an adopted
infant
daughter
from Korea.
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March 5,
2012 |
A Tree Grows
in Brooklyn
by Betty
Smith
The story of
young,
sensitive,
and
idealistic
Francie
Nolan and
her
bittersweet
formative
years in the
slums of
Williamsburg
has
enchanted
and inspired
millions of
readers for
more than
sixty years.
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April 2,
2012 |
The Paris
Wife
by Paula
McLain
This is the
story of
Ernest
Hemingway's
years in
Paris with
other
members of
the "Lost
Generation,"
told through
the eyes and
voice of his
first wife,
Hadley,
about whom
Hemingway
would one
day write,
"I wish I
had died
before I
loved anyone
but her."
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May
7, 2012 |
The Help
by Kathryn
Stockett
Set in
Mississippi
in 1962,
"The Help"
is
alternately
narrated by
two maids
and a young
white woman
who has just
graduated
from OLe
Miss.
Seemingly as
different
from one
another as
can be,
these women
will
nonetheless
come
together for
a
clandestine
project that
will put
them all at
risk.
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