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(Start Sept 9, 2007)
Monday, Tuesday, 
& Thursday
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 Saturday
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Wednesday Readers

Books are available at the front desk.  


Monday,
June 12 2008

7:00 p.m.

Northeast Fireplace

**Another book discussion is available on the 4th Thursday of the month at 11:30 am. Titles to be announced. For more details, call 928-0257. **

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
by Barbara Kingsolver

Books will be available at the front desk.

From Publishers Weekly
In her engaging though sometimes preachy new book, Kingsolver recounts the year her family attempted to eat only what they could grow on their farm in Virginia or buy from local sources. The book's bulk, written and read by Kingsolver in a lightly twangy voice filled with wonder and enthusiasm, proceeds through the seasons via delightful stories about the history of their farmhouse, the exhausting bounty of the zucchini harvest, turkey chicks hatching and so on. In long sections, however, she gets on a soapbox about problems with industrial food production, fast food and Americans' ignorance of food's origins, and despite her obvious passion for the issues, the reading turns didactic and loses its pace, momentum and narrative. Her daughter Camille contributes recipes, meal plans and an enjoyable personal essay in a clear if rather monotonous voice. Hopp, Kingsolver's husband and an environmental studies professor, provides dry readings of the sidebars that have him playing Dr. Scientist, as Kingsolver notes in an illuminating interview on the last disc. Though they may skip some of the more moralizing tracks, Kingsolver's fans and foodies alike will find this a charming, sometimes inspiring account of reconnecting with the food chain.
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Previous Books - 2008  
January Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
February Swimming Across by Andrew Grove
March March by E. L. Doctorow
April Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway
May Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner
   
Previous Books - 2007
January Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
February Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
March March by Geraldine Brooks
April Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
May  The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
June  The Great Divide by T. Davis Bunn
July Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
August Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
September Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
October The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
November A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
December At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
Previous Books - 2006
January Known World by Edward P. Jones
February My Jim by Nancy Rawles and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
March Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
April Medicine Men by Alice Adams
May Native Speaker by Chang Rae Lee
June In the Company of Heroes by Michael Durant
July Life Studies by Susan Vreeland
August The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
September Rules for Old Men Waiting by Peter Pouncey
October Wickett's Remedy by Myla Goldberg
November A Dangerous Woman by Mary McGarry Morris
December Winter Solstice by Rosamond Pilcher

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