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The book of the month is Issac’s Storm by Erik Larson. Narrator Edward Herrmann brings an eerie calm to this powerful chronicle of the deadliest storm ever to hit the United States–a huge and terribly destructive hurricane that struck land near Galveston, Texas in September of 1900. Author Erik Larson re-creates the events leading up to the disaster in astonishing detail, tracing the thoughts and actions of Isaac Cline, a scientist with America’s burgeoning U.S. Weather Bureau.
This book will be discussed on November 10th.  Get yours today!

The book club is picking up their new book for the month.  Why don’t you pick up a copy and join in?  They will meet again to discuss it on Sept 8th.

This month’s book is Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder.  Wow reading the inside cover I find that Tracy Kidder is a man and a Pulitzer Prize winner!  This book is an inspiring non-fiction story about Paul Farmer, Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist and recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant.  ( I wonder how he answered the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” )
This magnificent book shows how radical change can be fostered in situations that seem insurmountable, and it also shows how a meaningful life can be created, as Farmer-brilliant, charismatic, charming, both a leader in international health and a doctor who finds time to make house calls in Boston and the mountains of Haiti-blasts through convention to get results.

This month the book club will be picking up Mornings On Horseback by David McCullough.   The inside flap tell us, “Mornings on Horseback is about the world of the young Theodore Roosevelt.  It is the story of a remarkable little boy, seriously handicapped by recurrent nearly fatal attacks of asthma, and his struggle to manhood, an amazing metamorphosis seen in the context of the very uncommon household in which he was raised.”
Order your book today and come to next months meeting on May 12th to talk about it.

This month the club will be discussing April 1865 by Jay Winik.  They will pick up We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Oats.  We Were the Mulvaneys celebrates the miracle that allowed a family to bridge the chasms that had opened up between them, and to reunite in the spirit of love and healing.  This book discussion group is open to all.  Call the library and we will order your books for you.

This month the book club will be discussing Three Cups of Tea.  When they come in for the meeting, they will be picking up April 1865 The Month that Saved America by Jay Winik.  This is a civil war saga.  April 1865 was a month that could have unraveled the nation.  Instead, it saved it.  Here Jay Winik offers a brilliant new look at the Civil War’s final days that will forever change the way we see the war’s end and the nation’s new beginning.  Uniquely set within the larger sweep of history, filled with rich profiles of outsize figures, fresh iconoclastic scholarship, and a gripping narrative, this is a masterful account of the thirty most pivotal days in the life of the United States.�
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Our book club would have met Tuesday the 11th, but the library was closed for Veteran’s Day.  So they rescheduled to Thursday the 13th.  On Thursday they will be picking up the new book for the month.  Skipping Christmas by John Grisham is a classic tale for modern times that offers a hilarious look at the chaos and frenzy that has become part of our holiday tradition.  Imagine a year without Christmas.  No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents.  This year the Kranks have decided to set sail on a Caribbean cruise.  But, as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences-and isn’t half as easy as they’d imagined.
So pick up your copy of the book today or order one online.  They will be discussing this book on December 9th.

The new book for pick up at the Tuesday Oct 14th meeting is Empire Falls by Richard Russo.  Richard Russo has demonstrated a peerless affinity for the human tragicomedy, and with this stunning novel he extends even further his claims on the small-town, blue collar heart of the country.
Empire Falls reveals our worst and best instincts, both our most appalling nightmares and our simplest hopes, with all the vision, grace and humanity of truly epic storytelling.

Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear is the book the club will be discussing on Tuesday Oct 14th.  This is a mystery set in London 1931.  An artist falls to his death.  After the police declare it an accident his sister takes matters into her own hands.  There she finds a sinister world that tries to silence her.  This is a vivid, thrilling and unique mystery.  Order your book today and come to the meeting in October.  The club is free and open to everyone.

Suite Francaise by Irrene Nemirovsky is the book the club is reading right now.  They will be discussing this book on Tuesday September 9th. 

The back cover makes a very interesting case for reading the book.  “Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940,  Suite Francaise tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control.  As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food: a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart.  Moving on to a provincial village now occupied by German soldiers, the locals must learn to coexist with the enemy-in their town, their homes, even in their hearts.
When Irene Nemirovisky began working on Suite Francaise, she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris.  But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where she died.  For sixty-four years, this novel remained hidden and unknown.”

The next book our book club will be reading is “Suite Francaise” by Irene Nemirovsky.  They will pick up this book on Tuesday August 12th and discuss it at the next meeting on September 9th.  

Washington Post writes “Irène Némirovsky was a Jewish, Russian immigrant from a wealthy family who had fled the Bolsheviks as a teenager. She spent her adult life in France, wrote in French but preserved the detachment and cool distance of the outsider. She and her husband were deported to Auschwitz in 1942, where he was gassed upon arrival and she died in the infirmary at the age of 39. Her manuscript, in minuscule and barely readable handwriting, was preserved by her daughters, who, ignorant of the fact that these notebooks contained a full-fledged masterpiece, left it unread until 60 years later. Once published, with an appendix that illuminates the circumstances of its origin and the author’s plan for its completion, it quickly became a bestseller in France. It is hard to imagine a reader who will not be wholly engrossed and moved by this book.”

If you would like to join the book club call the library to have us order your book today!