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BOOK CLUB

This book club was begun in 1999 by a group of women who were friends in church. Much has changed since its beginning, including the marriages of children, relocating, and the arrival of grandchildren, but the friendships and the book studies continue. There is no official name for the group other than "Book Club." The meetings are once a month, and the host for the month chooses the book and serves a light dinner. The club has eight members, including 4 of the 6 in the original group.

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Date of Meeting	Host	Title	Author	Summary	Ratings-discontinued
Feb. 21, 2012	Trish	Death In The City of Light	David King	True story of a serial killer who terrorized Nazi-controlled Paris in 1944.
Mar. 13, 2012	Clare
Apr. 10, 2012	Kay
May 8, 2012	Pat
Jun. 12, 2012	Nancy
Jul. 10, 2012	Ginny
Aug. 14, 2012	Phylis
Sep. 11, 2012	Trish
Oct. 9, 2012	Clare
Nov. 13, 2012	Kay
Dec. 11, 2012	Pat
Jan. 08, 2013	Nancy
Feb. 12, 2013	Ginny
Mar. 12, 2013	Phylis
Apr. 09, 2013	Trish
May 14, 2013	Clare
Jun. 11, 2013	Kay
Jul. 09, 2013	Pat
Aug. 13, 2013	Nancy
Sep. 10, 2013	Ginny
Oct. 8, 2013	Phylis
Nov. 12, 2013	Trish
Dec. 10, 2013	Clare
Books Read Previously:	Title	Author	Summary	Ratings ACGKN PaPePhT
Jan. 10, 2012	Phylis (at Kay's)	In The Land of Invisible Women	Qanta Ahmed	A Muslim British female doctor tells of the challenges of practicing medicine in Saudi Arabia.
Dec.13, 2011	Ginny	Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy	Eric Metaxas	From his early childhood to his arrest and subsequent martyrdom for his involvement in the conspiracy against Hitler, Metaxas draws from the letters of Bonhoeffer as well as his family to write this biography.
Nov. 8, 2011	Nancy	The Paris Wife	Paula McLain	Set mainly in Paris during prohibition, this tells of Ernest Hemmingway and his first wife, Hadley, how they met, and how their relationship eventually deteriorated.
Oct. 11, 2011	Pat	When Crickets Cry	Charles Martin	What happens a broken hearted man and a small child who is clinging to a thread of life connect, through an act of God.
Sep. 13, 2011	Kay (at Phylis's)	Major Pettigrew's Last Stand	Helen Simonson	A reserved widowed British major falls in love with a Pakistani shop keeper.
Aug. 9, 2011	Clare	Half Broke Horses	Jeannette Walls	The story of the author's maternal grandmother, set in the Southwest US during the women's rights movement.
Jul. 12, 2011	Trish	Orange Is The New Black	Piper Kerman	A woman's account of her year in prison, where she found friendship with other prisoners, love from her family and encouragement from her friends near and far.
Jun 14, 2011	Ginny	A Pearl In The Storm	Tori Murden McClure	Tori Murden McClure attempts to become the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
May 12, 2011 (Thur)	Phylis	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	The story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic athlete who endured incredible hardships during World War II when he was shot down over the ocean and then held as a Japanese prisoner of was.
Apr. 12, 2011	Nancy	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	The story of a poor African-American woman who unknowingly had her cervical cancer cells (dubbed HeLa) used to grow the first immortalized cells cultures.
Mar. 8, 2011	Pat	Strength In What Remains	Tracy Kidder	The story of Deo, a survivor of the Tutsi-Hutu genocide who escaped and went from being a homeless person in New York's Central Park to graduating from Columbia University, and building a medical clinic in his native Burundi.
Feb. 8, 2011		No Meeting
Jan. 11, 2011	Clare	Roses	Leila Meacham	The multi-generational story, spanning a century, of the DuMont, the Tolliver and Warwick families, who started their empire in small town in E. Texas.
Dec. 14, 2010	Kay	One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd	Jim Fergus	At a peace conference by a Cheyenne Indian Chief in 1854, it was agreed to trade white women for horses. The women would become brides and the children of these unions would make assimilation into the white mans society easier.
Nov. 9, 2010	Trish	Home To Big Stone Gap	Adriana Trigiani	Part of a series set in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney's beloved only daughter Etta has married an Italian and is living in his native country. Her new husband, Jack is having health problems.
Oct. 12, 2010	Ginny	A Parchment of Leaves	Silas House	Set in the backwoods of Kentucky at the beginning of WWI, this is a story of a young white man who falls in love with a beautiful Cherokee girl.
Sept 14, 2010	Phylis	The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo	Steig Larsson	A disgraced journalist and a disfunctional but brilliant young woman team up to solve an old mystery of a woman's disappearance.
Aug. 10, 2010	Nancy	Cutting For Stone	Abraham Verghese	The fictional story of two conjoined twins fathered by a brilliant British Surgeon and an Indian Nun.
July 13, 2010	Pat	The Blind Side	Michael Lewis	Story of a southern family that adopts a poor young black student who becomes a star football player.
June 8, 2010	Anne	Where The God Of Love Hangs Out	Amy Bloom	A collection of short stories that are journeys into the lives of very different American families who experience the common traumas of life, such as aging and death.
May 11, 2010	Clare	The Help	Kathryn Stockett	The Help is about a young white woman in the early 1960s in Mississippi who becomes interested in the plight of the black ladies' maids that every family has working for them.
Apr. 13, 2010	All	Trip with husbands to Savannah
Mar. 9, 2010	Kay	Midnight In The Garden Of Good and Evil - The Movie	John Berendt	Combined meeting with the husbands to watch the movie based on the book
Feb. 9, 2010	Trish	Midnight In The Garden Of Good and Evil	John Berendt	A true crime novel set in Savannah, GA. It goes behind velvet curtains and antique walls into a society where pedigree is based as much on lineage, wealth, and power as on quirky southern traditions like knowing how to serve a fine platter of tomato sandwiches.
Jan. 12, 2010	Nancy	Olive Kitteridge	Elizabeth Strout	A "novel" of short stories that tell of small-town Maine residents who all struggle with relationships in the small town of Maisy Mills, Maine, and who all know a common character, Olive Kitteridge.
Dec. 8, 2009	Kay	People of the Book	Geraldine Brooks	In 1996, as rare book expert Dr. Hanna Heath examines the Sarajevo Haggadah, an illuminated Hebrew manuscript from 15th century Spain, she carefully removes a series of artifacts that, under laboratory examination, will offer insight into the remarkable journey of this unusual text.
Nov. 10, 2009	Phylis	The Kabul Beauty School	D.Rodriguez. & Kristin Ohlson	The narrator is a hairdresser from Michigan who is having a difficult time extricating herself from an abusive marriage. She gets the idea to use her beauty skills to travel to Afghanistan and help women there learn cosmetology.
Oct. 13, 2009	Ginny	The Art of Racing in the Rain	Garth Stein	On the eve of his death, Enzo (a dog) tells what amounts to his master's life story.
Sept. 8, 2009	Anne	March	Geraldine Brooks	The author takes the well known story of Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) and weaves a tale centering on the absentee father and husband, Peter March.
Aug. 13, 2009 (Date change)	Clare	The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society	Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows	A series of letters written during the post-World War II years from and to Juliet, a London-based writer, her publisher, her friends, her suitor, and a group of residents of Guernsey (in the Channel Islands) who formed a book club of sorts during the German occupation of the island.
July 14, 2009	Pat	We Are All Welcome Here	Elizabeth Berg	The story about an adult woman polio survivor, her adolescent daughter, and her housekeeper/friend.
June 9, 2009	Trish	Sarah's Key	Tatiana de Rosnay	The story of the 1942 Vel d'Hiv roundup of the Jews in Paris, seen through the eyes of eleven year old Sarah, a French Jew. It is also the story of Julia Jarmond, a journalist living in Paris in 2002 and writing the story about the roundup.
May 12, 2009	Phylis	Mudbound	Hillary Jordan	The end of World War II, sees two the vastly different homecomings for two returning war heroes--one black, one white--to the Jim Crow south.
Apr. 14, 2009	Ginny	Suite Francaise	Irene Nemirovsky and Sandra Smith	A young mother's notes are turned into the novel she was planning to write by her daughters after her capture and execution in WW II by the Nazis. The story tells about the people who lived in occupied France.
Mar. 10, 2009	Nancy	Dreams From My Father	Barack Obama	Memoir written in 1995 of Obama's early years, growing up as the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Africa.
Feb. 10, 2009	Anne	The Story of Edgar Sawtelle	David Wroblewski	Continuing with The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Jan.13, 2009	Kay	The Story of Edgar Sawtelle	David Wroblewski	A mute boy, Edgar, growing up in a family that raises a special breed of highly intelligent dogs, experiences tragedy as his father dies and an uncle steps in his place. When his father's apparitions suggests murder, its investigation precipitates even more tragedy, and Edgar runs away in the companion of his dogs
Dec. 9, 2008	Clare	The Education Of Little Tree	Forrest Carter	A child learns lessons of life from his part-Cherokee grandfather.
Nov. 11, 2008	Pat	The Shack	William P. Young	'Mack' Phillips's young daughter is abducted during a family trip, apparently murdered. Four years later, a mysterious note is delivered to Mack asking him to come back to 'The Shack' where she had been taken. The note was apparently from God.
Oct. 14, 2008	Trish	Escape	Carolyn Jessop	A woman's memoir details life as a wife in an extremist cult of the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints.
Sept. 9, 2008	Phylis	Water For Elephants	Sara Gruen	A 93-year-old man reflects on his life through flashbacks, remembering his time with the circus and living through the depression.
Aug. 12, 2008	Nancy	The Shipping News	Annie Proulx	Quoyle decides to relocate to Newfoundland after his wife is killed in an accident. He, his two daughters and his aunt eventually find happiness living among a cast of interesting characters.
July 8, 2008	Ginny	Mary, Mrs. A. Lincoln	Janis Cooke Newman	A historically-based fictional account of the life of Mary Todd Lincoln.
June 10, 2008	Kay	The Widow's War	Sally Gunning	A newly widowed woman challenges both law and custom in Pre-Revolutionary Cape Cod.
May 13, 2008	Pat	Trip to Actors Theater		The group attends "Menopause, The Musical"
Apr. 8, 2008	Clare	Luncheon of the Boating Party	Susan Vreeland	Based on Renoir's famous painting, the novel combines historical fact with vivid imagination as we learn how the painting came into existence and how the models were chosen, as well as Auguste Renoir's struggling even to cover the costs of purchasing paint.
Mar.11, 2008	Anne	The Archivist's Story	Travis Holland	Set in Russia in the 1930's, the story tells of an archivist torn between his love of literature and his desire to survive, requiring that he destroy unapproved manuscripts.
Feb. 19, 2008	Trish	Boom	Tom Brokaw	A TV journalist's account of the '60's in America. (We discussed this book in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, accompanied by our husbands.)
Jan. 8, 2008	Nancy	Thread Of Grace	Mary Doria Russell	A small group of Italian soldiers and peasants try to save the lives of Jewish refugees from Nazi soldiers by escorting them through a mountain pass and then hiding them, selflessly sacrificing their lives.
Dec. 11, 2007	Phylis	The Faraday Girls	Monica Mcinerney	When 16-yr. old Clementine becomes pregnant, her father and four sisters agree to raise baby "Maggie." Twenty-six years pass, and secrets are revealed.
Nov. 13, 2007	Ginny	The Bean Trees	Barbara Kingsolver	A young woman strikes out on her own, is handed an abandoned baby, and sets up life in Arizona.
Oct. 9, 2007	Kay	The Shadow Of The Wind	Carlos Luis Zafon	A young man, Daniel Sempere, comes upon a hidden book, and becomes fascinated with, and attempts to find out more about, the life of its author, Julian Carax.
Sept. 11, 2007	Anne	Small Island	Andrea Levy	A Jamaican couple moves to London after World War II, and their attempts to settle in and deal with hatred.
August 14, 2007	Trish	A Thousand Splendid Suns	Khaled Hosseini	Two women from very different backgrounds become allies to survive the turmoil and oppression as one Muslim radical group after another takes over the government in modern day Afghanistan.
July 10, 2007	Pat	Midwives	Chris Bohjalian	A thoughtful and provocative look at how a home-birth gone wrong leads to a trial and the effects it has on a family and community.
June 12, 2007	Clare	Snow Flower and the Secret Fan	Lisa See	A novel about women in the Chinese culture of the past; Mother-daughter relationships; Foot-binding; Arranged marriage.
May 8, 2007	Phylis	Vanishing Acts	Jodi Picoult	A young woman finds out that, when she was very young, she was kidnapped by her father. The story tells of her relationship with him, his ex-wife, and her two best friends, to whom one of which she is engaged.
Apr. 10, 2007	Ginny	The Glass Castle	Jeanette Walls	How the author overcame a childhood of adversity and hardship, growing up with an alcoholic father and mentally ill mother, to become a success.
Mar. 13, 2007	Nancy	The Memory Keepers Daughter	Kim Edwards	The birth of fraternal twins, a healthy boy and a girl with Down syndrome, results in the father's disavowal and sending away of his newborn daughter, telling his wife the girl did not survive.
Feb. 13, 2007	Kay	The White	Deborah Larsen	Based on a true story of a woman kidnapped and raised by Native Americans around 1800. A short book written in poetic but Spartan style.
Jan. 9, 2007	Anne	The Things They Carried	Tim O'Brien	O'Brien is both able to effectively convey the raw emotions of being an American soldier in Vietnam as well as helping him exorcise his demons.
Dec. 12, 2006	Trish	The Time Traveler's Wife	Audrey Niffenegger	At the heart of the story is the love of Henry and his wife Clare. Henry has the ability to transport himself in time.
Nov. 14, 2006	Clare	Plain Truth	Jodi Picoult	Katie Fisher, an 18-year-old Amish girl, is pregnant and unmarried. She gives birth in the barn, falls asleep and when she wakes up, the baby is gone.
Oct. 10, 2006	Phylis	Mountains Beyond Mountains	Tracy Kidder	The story of Dr. Paul Farmer's quest to bring modern medicine to Haiti.
Sept. 19, 2006	Ginny	Disgrace	J.M. Coetzee	A South African professor is forced to leave when a sexual romp with a young student no longer remains exclusively behind closed doors
Aug. 8, 2006	Pat	Death Benefit	David Heilbroner	A lawyer investigates the death of a Louisville woman and discovers a 20-year pattern of arson and murder.
July 11, 2006	Nancy	Hershey	Michael D'Antonio	The biography of Milton S. Hershey, the founder of the candy empire and the town.
June 13, 2006	Kay	Adventures In The Mainstream	Greg Palmer	The humorous true story of a father preparing his almost-adult son with Down Syndrome for life as an adult.
May 9 , 2006	Phylis	The Novelist	Angela Hunt	A adventure-series novelist teaches a class and answers the challenge of one of her students to write something deeper and more personal. Her spiritual allegory helps her deal with her troubled son.
Apr. 11, 2006	Clare	In The Company of the Courtesan	Sarah Dunant	A courtesan and her dwarf companion share adventures in Renaissance Italy.
Mar. 14, 2006	Trish	Possession, con't
Feb. 7, 2006	Anne	Possession	A.S. Byatt	Two Victorian researchers, Maud and Roland stumble upon a letter written by reputed Victorian Poet Ash, an uncontroversial figure believed to have led a smooth, rather bland, life. But further research points to a romantic relationship between Ash and a lesser known poet, Christabel.
Jan 10, 2006	Ginny	Never Let Me Go	Kazuo Ishiguro	A group of cloned children grow up in an English boarding school, where the truth about their biology is both the cause and effect of some very strange happenings.
Dec. 13, 2005	Pat	Sea Glass	Anita Shreve	Set on the New Hampshire coast during the depression, this is the story of Honora Beecher, a young newlywed who compulsively collects sea glass, and Francis, a boy who discovers a father figure in the of McDermott, an Irish mill worker.
Nov. 8, 2005	Nancy	Devil In The White City	Erik Larson	A story of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 focusing primarily on two men - the architect who was the driving force behind the fair, and a sadistic serial killer working under the cover of the busy fair.
Oct. 11, 2005	Kay	Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons	Lorna Landvik	The five women who comprise a small-town MN reading group do much more than eat candy--and experience many more emotions than anger--over a 30-yr period.	ratings discontinued
Sept. 13, 2005	Phylis	Good Grief	Lolly Winston	Sophie Stanton goes from newlywed to widow in just three short years of marriage, her competent and confident persona replaced by an Oreo-munching, robe-and-slipper-clad zombie. Sophie leaves her high-pressure, memory-laden Silicon Valley lifestyle for a laid-back Oregon village.
Aug. 9, 2005	Trish	The Life Of Pi	Yann Martel	A 16 year old Indian boy is adrift in a lifeboat with a 450 pound Bengal tiger and a small menagerie of expatriated zoo animals.	7,7,-,5,-,3,-,-,6
July 12, 2005	Clare	The #1 Ladies Detective Agency	Alexander McCall Smith	A series of vignettes linked to the establishment and growth of Mma Ramotswe's "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" both entertain also explore conditions in Botswana in a way that is both penetrating and light.	4,7,-,7,-,7,-,-,-
June 14, 2005	Anne	Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight	Alexandra Fuller	A white African girl's childhood during the Rhodesian civil war (1971-1979) Fuller describes her parents' racism and the wartime relationships between blacks and whites through a child's watchful eyes.	8,-,10,8,-,3,7,-,9
May 10, 2005	Phylis	Reading Lolita In Tehran	Azar Nafisi	Western classics are read and discussed by a group of women who met secretly with Nafisi, an instructor at the University of Tehran. She was expelled in 1997 for shunning the veil.	-,-,3,4,-,-,4,-,-
Apr. 12, 2005	Pat	One True Thing	Anna Quindlen	A daughter quits her top-dog job to care for her cancer-stricken homemaker mother, and also has to deal with her father, a chilly professor who lets the women in the family do the heavy emotional lifting dying requires.	-,-,8,7,-,8,9,-,-
Mar. 8, 2005	Nancy	The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	Two young boys have their friendship challenged in war-torn Afghanistan.	9,10,8,10,-,9,10,9,2
Feb. 8, 2005	Kay	Gravesend Kid	Lionel Lindsay	True story of a boy growing up in Brooklyn, NY.	-,-,8,9,-,8,-,-,8
Jan. 11, 2005	Anne	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time	Mark Haddon	The solution of a mystery, as told from the perspective of an adolescent with autism.	7,7,8,7,-7,8,-,8
Dec. 14, 2004	Ginny	All Souls	Michael Patrick MacDonald	A true story of a family in South Boston and their violent experiences in the 1970's and 80's.	-,-,7,8,-,-,-7
Nov. 9, 2004	Penny	The Ladies Auxiliary	Tova Mirvis	An Orthodox Jewish group of women in Memphis, TN are disturbed when a new woman moves into their community	-,-,-,9,-,-8,8
Oct. 12, 2004	Clare	Year of Wonders	Geraldine Brooks	A young housekeeper tells the story of how her town dealt with the plague of the 1600's.	-,8,9,8,-,-,8,-
Sept. 14, 2004	Pat	Beginners Luck	Laura Pedersen	A rebellious 16-yr-old girl runs away and lives with an eccentric woman and her son for her senior year.	-,-,5,9, 7,10,9,8
August 10, 2004	Nancy	The Five People You Meet In Heaven	Mitch Albom	An old man dies and meets some interesting people from his past on his way to heaven.	8,8
July 6, 2004	Kay	Deception on His Mind	Elizabeth George	Mystery set in a seaside town outside of London involving Pakistani community	9,8
June 8, 2004	Phylis	The Wife	Meg Wolitzer	An aspiring author gives up her dreams of being a successful writer to support her husband's writing career.	7,7
May 11, 2004	Anne	Namesake	Jhumpa LaHiri	An Indian family adjusts to life in America	6
April 13, 2004	Clare	The Gates of the Alamo	Stephen Harrigan	A romance and adventure set around the battle of the Alamo	7,5
March 9, 2004	Pat	The Keeper's Son	Homer Hickam	A lighthouse keeper's son fights WWII German U-Boats off the coast of N.C.	7,8,8,8,-10,-,-,-
Feb. 10, 2004	Ginny	To Kill A Mockingbird	Movie night	The VCR movie based on the novel.	n/a
Jan. 13, 2004	Nancy	To Kill A Mockingbird	Harper Lee	A young Southern girl sees her lawyer father fight prejudice.	A perfect 10
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Dec. 9, 2003	Phylis	Secret Life of Bees	Sue Monk Kidd	Neglected girl escapes her father and finds a good life among women who are beekeepers.	6,-,7,9,-,8,9
Nov. 11, 2003	Anne	Atonement	Ian McKeon	Young aspiring author comes upon her sister and a boy, and then lies about what she saw, changing all their lives.	6
Oct. 14, 2003	Kay	The Age of Innocence	Edith Wharton	A man and woman are constrained by manners and morals in New York society in the 1870s. Also saw the movie.	7,6
Sept. 9, 2003	Penny	Three Junes	Julia Glass	Set in Greece, England and New York over 3 summers, this portrays the relationship between a father, his sons, the gay relationships of one son, and family relationships of the others.	5
Aug. 12, 2003	Clare	Seabiscuit	Movie Night	Date night for the movie Seabiscuit	n/a
July 8, 2003	Ginny	Crossing to Safety	Wallace Stegner	Two couples' friendship as the men become professors, and then one of the woman becomes ill. Set in Vermont.	6
June 10, 2003	Nancy	Poisonwood Bible	Barbara Kingsolver	A missionary family goes to the Congo in the 1960's where they deal with the difficulties of differences in culture and an insane father.	10,9,10,10,-,10,10,10
May 13, 2003	Pat	When The Emperor Was Divine	Julie Otsuka	A Japanese-American family is sent to an internment camp during WWII.	6
Apr. 8, 2003	Phylis	Next Of Kin	Joanna Trollope	Caro, an American wife in rural England, dies,leaving behind a husband who has long slept in a separate bedroom and an angry adopted daughter. But another young woman Zoe, arrives,and unlike Caro, she finds something compelling in the Meredith's strenuous, earthbound lifestyle--and in Robin, the husband.	6,9
Mar. 18, 2003	Kay	The Ditchdigger's Daughters	Yvonne Thornton	An African-American father with 5 daughters challenges them to succeed in life.	9,10
Feb. 11, 2003	Anne	Empire Falls (2)	Richard Russo	Story of a declining river town in upstate New York.	8,9
Jan. 14, 2003	Penny	Empire Falls (1)	Richard Russo	Story of a declining river town in upstate New York.	n/a
Dec. 10, 2002	Clare	Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch	Alice Caldwell	A poor family growing up in Louisville in the 1800's struggles to escape poverty. This tells of the beginnings of the social work done through the Cabbabe Patch program in the poor area of Louisville.	9,9
Nov. 12, 2002	Nancy	Evensong	Gail Godwin	Woman Episcopal pastor clashes with female Evangelist who comes to her mountain town.	9,8
Oct. 8, 2002	Pat	First Mothers	Bonnie Angelo	The story of eleven 20th century mothers of US presidents	9,10
Sept. 10, 2002	Nancy	Clay's Quilt	Silas House	A young man's life within the culture of the KY coal mining area and his struggles to find himself after the death of his mother when he is 4.	6,8
Aug. 13, 2002	Phylis	Bee Season	Myla Goldberg	Young girl in a disfunctional family wins a spelling bee and her family becomes wrapped up in her compulsion.	5
July 9, 2002	Kay	Seabiscuit	Laura Hillenbrand	A horse with a poor pedigree and the three people who made him famous.	9,10
June 11, 2002	Clare	Nanny Diaries	Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin	A young woman is hired as a nanny by a rich, disfunctional New York socialite family.	9
May 14, 2002	Anne	Kingdom Of Shadows	Nicolas Furst	An espionage tale of a Hungarian emigre attempting to keep the Balkan countries out of war in 1937.	4
April 9, 2002	Ginny	Andorra	Peter Cameron	A mythical place where a man seeks to begin his life over, but is caught up in a murder.	5
Mar. 12, 2002	Penny	The Professor's House	Willa Cather	Professor experiencing a mid-life crisis resists a move to a bigger more modern house.	5,5
Feb. 12, 2002	Ginny	Icebound	Jerri Nielsen and Maryanne Vollers	A doctor leaves her family and goes to the South Pole as the only doctor. While there, she discovers a lump in her breast.	6,8
Jan. 8, 2002	Pat	The Pact	Jodi Picoult	The story of a 17-yr-old boy, his girlfriend who may have committed suicide, and their families dealing with her death and the resulting trial.	8
Dec. 2001		Fools of Fortune	William Trevor	The story of a man's life as it is affected by the death of his father and sister who are killed for siding with Irish rebels
Nov. 2001		Wonder Boys	Michael Chabon	A college professor and his misadventures with one of his distressed students.	5
		Diary for Nicholas		The parents attempt to adjust to life after the death of a child.	8
Sept. 2001		Girl With A Pearl Earring	Tracy Chevalier	Fictional story of the servant's life of the subject in a painting by Vermeer	8,8
Aug. 2001		The Sot Weed Factor	John Barth	Difficult book written about a young aristocrat in Europe and how he attempts to better himself through ridiculous schemes.	zero
July 2001		Alias Grace	Margaret Atwood	Historical Fiction of a servant in Canada in 1800's accused of killing her employers
June 2001				Book suggestions were submitted
May 2001		The Red Tent	Anita Diamant	A fictional account based on the story of Rachel and Jacob in the Bible	9
Apr. 2001		Chocolat		Story of a shake up in the culture of a small French village dominated by the Catholic Church.	7
Mar. 2001		Ahab's Wife	Sena Jeta Nashund	Fictional story of the wire of Capt. Ahab in Moby Dick. Written in the style of the 1800's.
Feb. 2001		Clear Springs	Bobbie Ann Mason	Autobiographical piece of the author's early life in Clear Springs, KY.	8
Jan.2001		Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind	Ann B. Ross	Story of a recently widowed southern belle who discovers her husband has had a child with another woman and the scandal that ensues.	10
Dec. 2000		Traveling Mercies	Anne Lamott	True story of a "New Age" woman and how she could see God through her various life choices.	9
Nov. 2000		Open House	Elizabeth Berg	Story of a newly divorced woman and the adjustments she has to make.	9
Oct. 2000		Jim The Boy	James Early	A 10-year old boy is raised by a widow and her brothers in rural NC in the 1930's.
Sept. 2000		Pope Joan	Donna Woolfold Cross	Historical fiction about a 9th century woman who disguises herself as a man and becomes Pope.	10
Aug. 2000				No meeting.
July 2000		Keeping Faith		A young girl affects a custody battle when she has visions of God.
June 2000		Maybe/Maybe Not	Robert Fulgham	Observations on human nature.
May 2000		The Believers	Janice Holt Giles	Fictional account of living within the Shaker culture.
Apr. 2000		The Sparrow	Mary Doria Russell	A science fiction story of the one Jesuit who survived and returned to earth after visiting another planet in 2060.	10
Mar. 2000		The Color of Water	James McBride	True story of a Jewish mother and her black children.
Feb. 2000		A Map of the World	Jane Hamilton	Sad story of the aftermath of a neighbor's child drowning while in the care of her mother's friend.
Jan. 2000		The Loop	Nicholas Evans	Story of the federal program to save wolves vs. ranchers in Montana
Dec. 1999		Kiss of God	Marshall Stewart Ball	Poetry of developmentally handicapped child.
Nov. 1999		Night of Many Dreams	Gail Tsukiyama	Tale of two sisters growing up in Hong Kong in 1940's.
Oct. 1999		Memoires of a Geisha	Arthur Golden	A geisha tells of her culture.
Sept. 1999		The Odd Sea Snow Angels	Grederick Reiken Stewart O'Nan	Stories of adolescence.
Aug. 1999		Jacob's Ladder	Donanl McCaig	Civil War story told though the eyes of a slave.

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