The next book club meeting is on Tuesday April 8th.  The club will be discussing the book Tailspin by Bernard Conners.  

The book they will be picking up on Tuesday is The Pearl diver by Jeff Talarigo.  A first novel of rare beauty and sensitivity, Jeff Talarigo’s The Pearl Diver follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy. It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima.  They will discuss this book at the May 13th meeting.

March 11th at 6:30 is the next book club meeting.  They will be discussing the last 2 books and picking up, “Tailspin” by Bernard F. Conners.  In this extraordinary book, best selling author and former FBI agent Conners combines the instincts of a “literary bloodhound” with the gifted talents of a storyteller to present the solution to a murder that took place on July 4, 1954.   Read the rest of this entry »

“The Wild Trees” by Richard Preston  will be discussed on March 11th at 6:30pm in the community room at the Hadley-Luzerne Public Library.

This is a non-fiction  adventure story about several young college students who explore the ecology in the redwood treetops in Northern California. The deep redwood canopy is a vertical Eden filled with mosses, lichens, spotted salamanders, hanging gardens of ferns, and thickets of huckleberry bushes, all growing out of massive trunk systems that have fused and formed flying buttresses.  Humans move through the deep canopy suspended on ropes, far out of sight of the ground, knowing that the price of a small mistake can be a plunge to one’s death.

The book club had to cancel Tuesday Feb 12th due to a major ice storm.  The club has rescheduled the meeting to Tuesday Feb 26th at 6:30pm.  At this meeting they will be discussing The River of Doubt by Candice Millard.

On January 8th our book club picked up their new book.  If you are thinking of joining the club you can pick up this book and come to the next meeting on February 12th at 6:30 p.m.  The book is called, “The River of Doubt” by Candice Millard.  At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.

The River of Doubt-is a black, uncharted river that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world.  Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron.

After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon.  Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famous explorer, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it.  In the process, he changed the map of the Western Hemisphere forever.

Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks.  Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide.  The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful non-fiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Ameicans who ever lived.

From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, her is Candice Millard’s dazzling debut.

The author Candice Millard is a former writer and editor for National Geographic magazine.

Our book club meets the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 6:30pm at the library.
In October they met Oct 9th.  When they come back on November 13th  they will be discussing this month’s book, “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy.  Order your copy today and join the group!       Card Catalog
At once brutal and tender, despairing and rashly hopeful, spare of language and profoundly moving, this work is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery, and the essential, sometimes terrifying power of filial love.