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"January"
January 30th @ 6:30


 

Artist's model and divorcee, Helen Knightly spontaneously murders her mother, an agoraphobic now suffering from severe dementia, by suffocating her with a towel. But while her act is almost unconscious, it also seems like the fulfilment of a long-cherished, buried desire, since she spent a lifetime trying to win the love of a mother who had none to spare. Over the next twenty-four hours, Helen recalls her childhood, youth, marriage, and motherhood. Her life and the omnipresent relationship with her mother rush in at her as she confronts the choices that have brought her to that crossroads. Partly absent-mindedly, partly desperately she tries to conceal her crime, and in doing so ropes her ex-husband into the conspiracy.

Upcoming February Selection-"Half Broke Horses" by Jeanette Walls




                                       
                                       Book Discussion Picks for 2010 

Jan.

Promise Me

Coben, Harlan

Kris Kerr

Feb.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Larsson, Steig

Tanya Saxton

Mar.

Midnight in the Garden of  Good and Evil

Berendt, John

Kim Wilson

April

The Hiding Place

Boon, Corrie Ten

Nicole Haight

May

Under the Banner of Heaven

Krakauer, Jon

Lynn Allen

June

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Kingsolver, Barbara

Barb Kane

July

Wuthering Heights      

Bronte', Emily

Carol Barlow-Clement

August

 The Lost City of Z

 Grann, David                    

 Kris Kerr

 September

 The Help

 Stockett, Kathryn

 Julie Greenman

 October    

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

 Barrows, Annie

 Lynn Allen

 November

 The Great Gatsby

 Fitzgerald, F. Scott

 Mandy Kellogg

2011

Book Discussion Picks for 2009

Jan.

Persuasion

Austin, Jane

Carol Barlow-Clement

Feb.

Three Cups of Tea

Mortenson, Greg

Kelli Knapp

March

The Art of Happiness

The Dalai Lama

Bev Carlberg

April

East of Eden

Steinbeck, John

Chris Kerr

May

Loving Frank

Horan, Nancy

Lynn Allen

June

The Miracles of Santo Fico

Smith, D.L.

Brenda Peterson

July

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Pearson, Mary E.

Julie Greenman

August

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Haddon, Mark

Bev Carlberg

Sept.

The Poisonwood Bible

Kingsolver, Barbara

Mary Summerson

Oct.

Freakonomics

Levitt, Stephen

Sharill Thach

Nov.

Isaac’s Storm

Larson, Eric

Debbie Penley


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2012
January

February
The Hunger Games

The Alchemist

Edgar Sawtelle

The Room

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian

The Blood Runs Through It  In My Dreams

Daughter of Fortune

The Secret Life of Bees

"Snow Flower and the Secret Fan"

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Children's Blizzard







Almost Moon

Half Broke Horses
Collins, Suzanne

Paulo Coelho
 
 David Wroblewski

Emma Donaghue

Sherman, Alexie



Nasdijj


Allende, Isabel

Kidd, Sue Monk

See, Lisa


Rebedda Skloot


David Laskin







Alice Sebold

Jeanette Walls
Barb Kane

Debbie Penley

Mary Summerson

Kim Wilson

Beverly Carlberg



Tanya Saxton


Sharill Thach

Jennifer Senn

Kelli Knapp


Nicole Haight


Kim Wilson







Jennifer Senn

Kris Kerr