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	Wine, Women & Words Bookgroup   Contact Donna Howe to join.  New members are always welcome.
This group  is largely women who love to read a variety of books. We get together monthly to discuss the book selected by a group member but communicate by email between times. We try to explore our books, look at websites, attend a movie, opera, or live preview, share a glass of wine and munch on the exotic or mundane. Questions for discussion are from reading guides.
If you haven’t been to a book group lately...you can see we have chosen some very wonderful books.  Please come and join us again!!    As always, our meetings are the third Monday of the month at the library.   Thanks, Lara Bennett
Oprah Book club currently does not meet at the library. We have a display of many of the books recommended and would welcome a group meeting to discuss selected books. Link to Oprah book site Check the display cart for many of these books: (Latest Selections Coming Soon!!) check the catalog for availability 2008 A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose – Eckhart Tolle 2007 The Measure of a Man – Sidney Poitier The Road – Cormac McCarthy Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides Love in the time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett 2006 Night – Elie Wiesel 2005 A Million Little Pieces – James Frey As I Lay Dying – Faulkner The Sound and the Fury – Faulkner A Light in August – Faulkner more titles

WWW Bookclub will meet
July 21st at 7 p.m.
THE NAMESAKE by Jhumpa Lahiri

in the Quiet Reading Room

for discussion and fun. 
 

Jhumpa Lahiri's stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail -- the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase -- that opens whole worlds of emotion.


August – GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
Pulitzer Prize Winner

The Grapes of Wrath is a classic novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is frequently read in high school and college literature classes.
Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath at his home, 16250 Greenwood Lane, in what is now Monte Sereno, California. Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers, the Joads, driven from their home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agriculture industry.

September-EAT, PRAY, LOVE: ONE WOMAN’S SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING ACROSS ITALY, INDIA AND INDONESIA  by Elizabeth Gilbert 
Discussion to be led by Darlene Bauhs
From the Dust Jacket: An intensely articulate, sensible, moving and funny memoir of self-discovery, Eat, Pray, Love is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment It is also about the adventures that can transpire when a woman stops trying to live in imitation of society's ideals This is a story certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.

October VIENNA PRELUDE BY Bodie Thoene and Brock Thoene
Discussion to be led by Mary Emma Fowler
From the Back Cover
No one is safe. . . .
In 1936 Nazi darkness descends upon Europe. Every person is only one step away from being swept into the nightmarish tide of evil. Blond Elisa Lindheim, a violinist with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, adopts an Aryan stage name for protection. But her closest friend, Leah, a talented Jewish cellist, is in a perilous position.
There are those who choose to fight Hitler's madness. ...

November - ISAAC STORM by Erik Larson
Discussion to be led by Dianne Koehler
On September 8, 1900, a massive hurricane slammed into Galveston, Texas. A tidal surge of some four feet in as many seconds inundated the city, while the wind destroyed thousands of buildings. By the time the water and winds subsided, entire streets had disappeared and as many as 10,000 were dead--making this the worst natural disaster in America's history.
In Isaac's Storm, Erik Larson blends science and history to tell the story of Galveston, its people, and the hurricane that devastated them.

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