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September 3, 2009 at 6:36 am · Filed under Book Club
Our October book will be The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. This book is about a hungry, illiterate girl who steals books because she wants to read. It is set in 1939 in Nazi Germany.
When: Oct. 27- Tuesday
Time: 1:00- 3:00 PM
Where: Sally Powers
“RSVP” Sally @ 735-0357 or nickali8 {at} pacbell(.)net by Oct. 26
We welcome new members so think about attending one of our meetings. If you have any questions (except to RSVP), please call the Chairperson, Suzanne Ziarnik.
Nov. – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Dec. – no book for December
May 18, 2009 at 5:39 am · Filed under Book Club
When: June 23 – Tuesday
Time: 1:00- 3:00 PM
Where: Donna Clarke
RSVP: Donna @ 736-4274 by Monday, June 22
Our book will be Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo.
July – Saturday by Ian McEwan
Aug. – the group does not meet
We welcome new members so think about attending one of our meetings. If you have any questions (except to RSVP), please call the Chairperson, Suzanne Ziarnik 830-8339.
March 5, 2008 at 10:20 am · Filed under Book Club
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
March 5, 2008 at 10:11 am · Filed under Book Club
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time (Paperback)
January 14, 2008 at 7:50 am · Filed under Book Club
Its time to order your book for March: www.amazon.com
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
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349 of 367 people found the following review helpful:
“Do you intend to tell me the truth?”
Vida Winter, England’s most famous and reclusive writer, is nearing the end, and before she goes she wants her amazing life story to be recorded for posterity. For this, she engages a lonely young biographer, Margaret Lea, who has a few secrets of her own. When these two forceful women meet, the stage is set for an ever-mounting series of shocking surprises…
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January 11, 2008 at 8:26 am · Filed under Book Club
You still have time to order your book for February (follow link).
Our book will be Water for Elephants by Suara Gruen
We welcome new members, so think about attending one of our meetings.
If you have any questions, please call the Chairperson, Suzanne Ziarnik.
November 14, 2007 at 4:11 pm · Filed under Book Club
Date: Dec. 11 – Tuesday
Time: 12:00 Noon
Where: Bridges Restaurant, 44 Church, Danville
The book club will meet at a delightful local restaurant in December. The menu is varied and has something for everyone. The club will not select a book for December, but we ask you to share one inspirational or uplifting book or story, and tell the group about it. Please RSVP to Suzanne Ziarnik at 830-8339 by Thur., Dec. 6, so we can notify the restaurant. We welcome new members so think about attending this special meeting. If you have any questions, please call Suzanne Ziarnik.
Jan. – The Constant Princess by Phillipa Gregory
Feb. – Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Suzanne
March 17, 2007 at 8:07 am · Filed under Book Club
When: April 24 – Tuesday
Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Where: Floy Harman’s – 678 El Cerro Blvd., Danville (From 680; exit El Cerro and go east on El Cerro)
RSVP: Floy @ 855-9220 by Monday, April. 23
Our book will be The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason. This novel is the story of a London piano tuner who is asked by the government to travel to Burma in order to tune the piano of a brilliant eccentric doctor who is undertaking diplomacy for the British government. The story evolves as the piano tuner becomes more immersed in the atmosphere of Burma and his strange mission.
We welcome new members so think about attending one of our meetings. If you have any questions (except to RSVP), please call one of the Chairpersons, Floy Harman or Suzanne Ziarnik.
May Book – Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Guildiner
June Book – Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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