Book Club

This book club was begun in 1999 by a group of women who were friends in church. Much has changed since its beginning, including the marriages of children, relocating, and the arrival of grandchildren, but the friendships and the book studies continue. There is no official name for the group other than ‘Book Club’. The meetings are once a month, and the host for the month chooses the book and serves a light dinner. The club currently has six members, including 4 of the 6 in the original group.

We fondly remember our dear friends and Book Club members, Trish, who passed away in March of 2017, and Pat, who passed away in August of 2022.

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Jan 21	Ginny	Demon Copperhead	Barbara Kingsolver	A modern take on Dickens's David Copperfield.
Feb 18	Kay	The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post	Allison Pataki	Based on the life of Marjorie Merriweather Post who inherited a fortune, divorced 4 husbands, and created Mar-A-Lago and Hillwood.
Mar 18	Nancy
Apr 15	Phylis
May 20	Penny
June 17	Marcia
July 15	Ginny
Aug 19	Kay
Sept 16	Phylis
Oct 21	Penny
Nov 18	Marcia
Dec 16	Nancy

Book Club 2024

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Jan 16	Ginny	The Red Lotus	Chris Bohjallian	an American man vanishes in Vietnam and his girlfriend, an ER doctor, follows a path that leads her home to where they met.
Feb 20	Kay	The Engineer's Wife	Tracey Enerson Wood	The true story of the Brooklyn Bridge and Emily Roebling who helped her injured husband complete the building of the bridge.
Mar 19	Nancy	West With Giraffes	Lynda Rutledge	Humorous story of two giraffes transported cross country during the Dust Bowl, depression, and WWII.
Apr 16	Penny	Code Name Eidelweiss	Stephanie Landsem	The true story of Jewish lawyer Leon Lewis who helped to foil Nazi plots in America in the 1930s.
May 21	Phylis	Miss Benson's Beetle	Rachel Joyce	Two post WWII spinsters set off to prove the existence of a golden beetle.
June 18	Marcia	The Woman In Cabin 10	Ruth Ware	In this mystery thriller, Lo Blacklock, a neurotic travel writer, is assigned to a luxury five-star cruise to Norway.
Jul 16	Ginny	The Women	Kristin Hannah	In the 1960's, Frankie McGrath deals with the upheavals of the Vietnam War.
Aug 22 (Change of date)	Kay	The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo	Taylor Jenkins Reid	A disposed Hollywood Legend offers a young producer, Monique, the opportunity to tell her story.
Sept 17 (Lunch)	Nancy	The Measure	Nikki Erlick	The residents of a small town receive a box telling how long they will live.
Oct 15	Phylis	The Inmate	Freida McFadden	Brooke Sullivan is a nurse practitioner at a maximum security prison where her ex-boyfriend is incarcerated for life.
Nov 19	Marcia	Widow Of The South	Robert Hicks	Story of the Confederate woman whose house was commandeered as a field hospital following the Battle of Franklin, TN
Dec 17	Penny	No book this month

Book Club 2023

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Jan 17	Ginny	Caleb's Crossing	Geraldine Brooks	Set in colonial New England, mostly during the 1660s, it tells the story of English puritan, Bethia, and her friendship with Native American Caleb.
Feb 21	No Book Club
Mar 21	Nancy	Lessons In Chemistry	Bonnie Gamus	A single mother Elizabeth Zott, is a brilliant chemist in a man's world in the1960s
Apr 18	Penny	The Midnight Library	Matt Haig	You are permitted to choose any book from the shelves and each book contains an alternative life. Each life is what would have resulted if you changed a single decision you regretted.
May 16	Phylis	The Bluegrass Conspiracy	Sally Denton	Kentucky history of the Cocaine Epidemic involving some of the top leaders of KY.
June 20	Marcia	David Copperfield	Charles Dickens	The novel traces the life of David Copperfield from the time of his birth to his mature manhood, when he is married and familiar with the vicissitudes of life.
Jul 18	Ginny	David Copperfiled, con't
Aug 15	Kay	The Other Einstein	Marie Benedict	The story of Albert Einstein's first wife who helped shape many of his theories but never received credit.
Sept 11	Nancy	Remarkably Bright Creatures	Shelby Van Pelt	Cleaning lady, Tova Sullivan, strikes up a friendship with octopus named Marcellus, and saves his life.
Oct 17	Phylis	Just A Regular Boy	Catherine Ryan Hyde	An orphaned boy raised by a survivalist wends his way into the real world in a newly found family.
Nov 21	Penny	The Secret Life Of Sunflowers	Marta Molnar	A young prostitute seeks refuge, and is befriended by Van Gogh.
Dec 19	Marcia	These Precious Days	Ann Patchet	Ann Patchett’s excellent collection of essays, in which she recalls her own father, an L.A. cop who scorned her writing ambitions and encouraged her to be a dental hygienist.

Book Club 2022

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Jan 11	Ginny	Piece Of The World	Christina Baker Kline	Biographical fiction about Christina Olson, the subject in the painting titled "Christina's World" by American artist, Andrew Wyeth. Christina was afflicted with a degenerative muscular disorder and the story is based around that.
Feb 8	no book club
Mar 15	Nancy	Bad Blood (note author)	John Carreyrue	This book covers 3 1/2 yrs of investigation into Theranos, its founder Elizabeth Holmes and her meteoric rise and spectacular fall in the obsessive pursuit of a dream.
Apr 19	Penny	Under The Gilded Moon	Joy Jordan-Lake	Historical fiction. In the 1800, young George Washington Vanderbilt II has built Biltmore House in the Appalachian Mountains.
May 24	Kay	River Of Doubt	Candice Millard	The true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of the Amazon after his failed presidential bid.
Jun 21	Phylis	The Stranger In The Lifeboat	Mitch Albom	A luxury yacht encounters a disaster for all but a small group of survivors, whose lives plummeted into thirst, hunger and death depending on their belief of a redeeming Lord.
Jul 19	Ginny	Invisible Child	Andrea Elliott	Excellent portrayal of the trials and tribulations of African\ American family with inner city poverty, homelessness,and drug addiction and a system that fails them.
Aug 23	Nancy	America For Beginners	Leah Franqui	Bengali widow embarks on a road trip of the U.S. with a Bangladeshi guide and a young American woman after the death of her son who was banished from the family.
Sep 20	Penny	The Bookseller's Secret	Michelle Gable	A dual-protagonist story of Katie Cabot, an American author visiting London, and Nancy Mitford, the oldest of the famous Mitford sisters.
Oct 18	Phylis	Horse - canceled	Geraldine Brooks	Story of a discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history
Nov 15	Marcia	Horse	Discussion
Dec 20	Kay	A Trick of the Light	Louise Penny	During the Great depression, Elsa Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, homicide investigator, leads the investigation of murder involving art, marriage, friendship and more in Quebec.

Book Club 2021 (If whole table does not display, click on "Next" at the bottom of this table.)

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Jan 12	Cancelled	COVID
Feb 9	Cancelled	COVID
Mar 9	Cancelled	COVID
Apr 14	Kay	The Lighthouse Keepers Daughter	Hazel Gaynor	The story is divided between the historical Victorian heroine, Grace Darling, and a young pregnant girl of 100 years later.
May 11	Penny	The Dutch House	Ann Patchett	Maeve and Danny are abandoned by their mother when their father buys a mansion for their mother who abandons them. They are force to leave by their step mother, and spend their lives returning to look at the mansion that was once theirs.
Jun 8	Phylis	The Nickel Boys	Colson Whitehead	Elwood and Turner are in a reform school for boys, where they suffer cruel treatment and racial discrimination.
Jul 13	Cancelled	cancelled
Aug 10	Ginny	The Vanishing Half	Brit Bennett	Twin girls grow up in the segregated South, and rebel by choosing different life styles, one with a black husband, and one with a white husband.
Sep 21	Nancy	Sons of Blackbird Mountain	Joanne Bischof	Two handsome brothers. An age-old Appalachian feud. And a love that may tear the Norgaard family apart.
Oct 12	Penny	The Paris Library	Janet Skeslien Charles	Women in Paris keep the American Library in Paris open during WW II.
Nov 9	Kay	The Book of Lost Friends	Lisa Wingate	Story of three young women searching for family post–Civil War, and a modern-day teacher who learns of their story.
Dec 14	Phylis	Sullivan's Island	Dorothea Benton Frank	Susan Hayes navigated through her turbulent childhood with humor, spunk, and Southern sass. But years later, she is a conflicted woman with an unfaithful husband, and a resentful teenage daughter.

Book Club 2020 (If whole table does not display, click on "Next" at the bottom of this table.)

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Jan 14	Kay	What The Wind Knows	Amy Harmon	On the death of her grandfather, a young author goes to Ireland to discover the story of her family's past during the Irish rebellion.
Feb 11	Pat	Dinner with Pat
Mar, Apr, May, June, all canceled because of COVID-19
July 21	Phylis	A Gentleman In Moscow	Amor Towles	Follows the story of Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov and his life in the Hotel Metropol where he has been under house arrest for thirty-two years.
Aug 11	Nancy	The Giver of Stars	JoJo Moyes	During the Great Depression, the WPA employed women who could ride horses as traveling KY librarians.
Sept 8	Clare	American Dirt	Jeanine Cummins	A Mexican bookseller escapes cartel-related violence with her son, fleeing to the US.
Oct 13	Ginny	A Far Piece To Canaan	Sam Halpern	Samuel Zelinsky, a former professor, reluctantly returns after his wife’s death to the Kentucky hills where he lived as a to make good on a forgotten promise.
Nov 10	Phyils	The Pull of the Stars	Emma Donoghue	In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together
Dec 8	Cancelled	COVID

Book Club 2019 (If whole table does not display, click on "Next" at the bottom of this table.)

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Jan 8, 2019	Kay	Remarkable Creatures	Tracy Chevalier	Based on real characters, the story of two young women who discover ancient fossils in southern England.
Feb 12, 2019	Pat	no book club this month.	'------	'------
Mar 12, 2019	Penny	Next Year In Havana	Chanel Cleeton	Two women, decades apart, grow up in Cuba in the last half of the 20th century.
Apr 9, 2019	Clare	Where The Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens	Abandoned by her parents in very poor surroundings, nature-loving Kya eventually learns to interact with those around her.
May 14, 2019	Ginny	Pachinko	Min Jin Lee	Family saga about four generations of a Korean family that is set in Korea and Japan.
June 11, 2019	Kay	The Art Forger	B.A. Shapiro	Almost twenty-five years after the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, one of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to the Boston studio of a young artist, Claire Roth. h
July 9, 2019	Phylis	party for Jerry O.
Aug 13, 2019	Nancy	The Baker's Secret	Stephen P. Kiernan	A baker's apprentice during the Nazi occupation keeps her townspeople alive.
Sept 10, 2019	Pat	Dinner with Pat	-----------	-------------
Oct 8, 2019	Penny	The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt	Andrea Bobotis	Two women review scandal and hard times that befell a family over 60 years. Historical fiction.
Nov 12, 2019	Clare	The Silent Patient	Alex Michaelides	Psychological thriller about an artist who shoots her husband and then refuses to speak.
Dec 10, 2019	Ginny	News of the World	Paulette Jiles	After the Civil War, two women make their way through perils both natural (swollen rivers) and human (Indians and male predators) on the lengthy trip from Wichita Falls to San Antonio.

Book Club 2018 (If whole table does not display, click on "Next" at the bottom of this table.)

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Jan 9, 2018	Pat	Hidden Figures	Margot Lee Shetterly	The story of the African-American women who helped build NASA
Feb 13, 2018	Ginny	The Truth According To Us	Annie Barrows	The secrets of a small Depression-era West Virginia town through the eyes of 12 year old Willa, and Layla, a who was assigned by Roosevelt's Writer Project.
Mar 13, 2018	Clare	Lilac Girls	Martha Hall Kelly	The book is written from the perspective of 3 individuals in WW II -- a woman in NYC trying to help the French children; a Polish woman and her family who were sent to one of the worst "re-education camps"; and from a female German doctor who worked at that re-education camp.
Apr 10, 2018	Kay	Sgt. Reckless: America's War Horse	Robin Hutton	Reckless, a Korean pony conscripted into the Marines to carry ammunition, is the only animal ever to be given official rank in the U.S. Armed Forces.
May 8, 2018	Penny	The Alice Network	Kate Quinn	Set in two times - 1915 and 1947, the story of two women whose paths intersect.
Jun 12, 2018	Nancy	The Handmaids Tale	Margaret Atwood	Futuristic novel about a post-nuclear-war world in which women are breeding stock.
Jul 10, 2018	Phylis	Rabbit A Memoir	Patricia Williams	Humorous telling of the author's escape from her background of poverty.
Aug 14, 2018	Pat	The President Is Missing	Bill Clinton & James Patterson	The President of the US goes into a secure place to fight an internet terrorist attack.
Sep 11, 2018	Ginny	The Last Suppers	Mandy Mikulencak	A woman's quest to provide meals for death row prisoners leads her into the secrets of her own past.
Oct 9, 2018	Clare	Crazy Rich Asians	Kevin Kwan	Man's extremely rich family is worried that he is going to propose to someone who is not from a “good” family.
Nov 13, 2018	Nancy	And Then There Were None	Agatha Christie	A murder mystery in which ten people are invited to an Island and are murdered one by one according to an old nursery rhyme.
Dec 11, 2018	Phylis	The French For Christmas	Fiona Valpy	Evie is heartbroken after a year grief and loss. The offer of her neighbor's holiday cottage in France help her find friendship, consolation and a new confidence in herself.

Book Club 2017

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Jan 10, 2017	Kay	The Good Earth	Pearl S. Buck	A Chinese man fulfills his desire for land.
Feb 14, 2017	NA	No Meeting
Mar 14, 2017	Nancy	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay	Michael Chabon	Kavalier and his friend Sammy Clay are instrumental in the of creating comic books in 1939 in NY.
Apr 11, 2017	Penny	The Garden of Evening Mists	Tan Twan Eng	A privileged Japanese woman survives a prisoner of war camp in the 1980's and builds a memorial garden.
May 9, 2017	Phylis	An Invisible Thread	Laura Schroff	A successful NY winab executive helps a poor young man as he is growing up.
Jun 13, 2017	Pat	The Night Circus Hidden Figures (for next time)	Eric Morgenstern (for next time): Margot Lee Shetterly	Magic and fantasy as a circus appears and disappears over the years. (for next time) Black women mathematicians help win the space race in the 1960's
Jul 11, 2017	Ginny	The Secret Wisdom of the Earth	Christopher Scotton	A troubled teenager's coming of age in an equally troubled town in Appalachia.
Aug 8, 2017	Clare	Pure Heart	Troy Ball	Raising 3 sons, two with special needs, the author makes the most of her southern town experience.
Sep 12, 2017	Phylis	Small Great Things	Jodi Picoult	The true story of a nurse who was prohibited from caring for a newborn by its bigoted father.
Oct 10, 2017	Kay	Hillbilly Elegy	J.D. Vance	The author goes from poverty in Appalachia and Ohio to Yale.
Nov 14, 2017	Nancy	The Light Between Oceans	M.L. Stedman	The Light Between Oceans tells the story about an Australian lighthouse keeper and his wife who have their world turned upside one day when a boat containing a body and a baby wash up on their island.
Dec 12, 2017	Penny	A Man Called Ove	Fredrik Backman	A cranky man's sour view of the world changes when he gets new neighbors.

Book Club 2016

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Dec 13, 2016	Clare	A Prayer for Owen Meany	John Irving	The memoir of a dwarf who believes he is the instrument of God.
Nov8, 2016	Trish	The Throwaway Children	Diney Costeloe	Sad story of two children who are taken from their abusive home and sent to Australia.
Oct 11, 2016	Phylis	Spilled Milk	K L Randis	Heroic story of Brooke, a young girl who survives domestic abuse to live to a happier life.
Sep 13, 2016	Pat	Everything I Never Told You	Celeste NG	A Chinese father and a Caucasian mother work their way through the death of their 16-year-old daughter.
Aug 9, 2016	Penny	The Summer Before The War	Helen Simonson	Beatrice Nash arrives in Rye, England to teach Latin before WWI, during the time of manners and class distinction.
Jul 12, 2016	Ginny	Saturday	Ian McEwan	Henry Perowne, a middle-aged doctor in London struggles with terrorist anxiety after seeing an explosion in the sky.
Jun 14 2016	Nancy	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe	The anti-slavery novel published in 1852 that changed the view of slavery.
May 10, 2016	Phylis	Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter	Kate Clifford Larson	The biography of the Kennedy's daughter who suffered from mental disabilities.
Apr 12, 2016	Kay	The Rosie Project	Graeme Simsion	A socially inept professor sets out to logically choose a wife.
Mar 8, 2016	Trish	Of Marriageable Age	Sharon Maas	This story of three children goes back and forth in time between India, Guyana and England as it highlights love and marriage in different cultures.
Feb 9, 2016	Clare	Ordinary Grace	William Kent Krueger	A 13-year-old boy comes of age in Minnesota in 1961.
Jan 12, 2016	Pat	All The Light We Cannot See	Anthony Doerr	A blind girl and a German boy eventually cross paths during World War II.

Book Club 2015

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Dec. 8, 2015	Ginny	Circling The Sun	Paula McLain	The biography of Beryl Markham, the rebellious woman who became the first horse trainer and first woman pilot from Africa.
Nov. 10, 2015	Penny	The Nightingale	Kristen Hannah	Two sisters resist the Nazis, each in their own way, during the occupation of France.
Oct. 13, 2015	Nancy	Dead Wake. The Last Crossing of the Lusitania	Erik Larson	The factual telling of the ship Lusitania, which was sunk by German torpedoes prior to WW I.
Sep. 8, 2015	Phylis	Ghost Boy	Martin Pistorius	A boy who, through illness, became a quadriplegic at age 12 recovers and tells of the experience.
Aug. 11, 2015	Kay	Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness	Pete Earley	Description of a father's efforts to find help for his mentally ill son.
July 14, 2015	Clare	The Girl On The Train	Paula Hawkins	Mystery involving what a girl traveling on a train sees.
Jun 9, 2015	Trish	Hannah Coulter	Wendell Berry	Hannah is a twice-married woman from Port William, KY and her live during and after World War II.
May 12, 2015	Phylis	Secrets of a Charmed Life	Susan Meissner	Historical fiction telling of a mother who must evacuate her children from London during the WW II Blitz.
Apr. 14, 2015	Ginny	A Tree Grows In Brooklyn	Betty Smith	A coming of age novel about Francie Nolan that chronicles her adventures during her teen years in Brooklyn, NY
Mar. 10, 2015	Penny	The Invention of Wings	Sue Monk Kidd	Based loosely on the real-life story of Sarah Grimke, a Charleston aristocrat, and her slave, Handful, as they both struggle with the bonds imposed on them in the early 1800's.
Feb. 10, 2015	Nancy	Nothing To Envy	Barbara Demick	The book follows 6 people in North Korea in the 1990's.
Jan. 13, 2015	Pat	What Alice Forgot	Liane Moriarty	Alice is close to 40 when she has a fall and, waking up, can't remember the last 10 years of her life.

Book Club 2014

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Dec. 9, 2014	Kay	The Inferno	Dan Brown	Set in Florence, Italy, Prof. Robert Langdon tries to battle past amnesia to challenge a bio-terrorism threat.
Nov. 11, 2014	Clare	The Boys In The Boat	Daniel Brown	The well-researched tale of the University of Washington rowing crew that captured a gold medal in the 1936 Olympics.
Oct. 14, 2014	Trish	The Husband's Secret	Liane Moriarty	The lives of three women are turned upside-down when the secret of one of their husbands is revealed
Sep. 9, 2014	Phylis	Enrique's Journey	Sonia Nazario	The unforgettable quest of a Honduran boy looking for his mother, 11 years after she is forced to leave her starving family to find work in the United States.
Aug. 12, 2014	Ginny	The Fault In Our Stars	John Green	Two teens battle cancer with humor and love.
Jul, 8, 2014	Penny	I Am Malala	Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb	A young Pakastani girl, shot in the face by the Taliban, fights to recover and also for the right for an education.
Jun. 10, 2014	Nancy	Animal Vegetable Miracle	Barbara Kingsolver	Kingsolver details her family's move to a farm in W. Va., and their decision to eat only the food that they raise or that is local.
May 13, 2014	Pat	Father Mother God	Lucia Greenhouse	This book tells the horrifying story of the illness and tragic death of the author's mother, her father's involvement, and her family's attempt to deal with it all as Christian Scientests.
Apr. 8, 2014	Kay	And The Mountains Echoed	Khaled Hosseini	The story focuses on siblings, Abdullah and Pari, as it moves from East to West and shifts geographies, telling the story from different points of view.
Mar. 11, 2014	Clare	Motherland	Maria Hummel	The tragedy and triumph of a young German family trying to survive the trials and tribulations of a devastated Germany at the end of World War ll.
Feb. 11, 2014	Cancelled	------------	------------	------------
Jan. 14, 2014	Trish	Lookaway Lookaway	Wilton Barnhardt	The Johnston family lives off the fumes of its great past. The money is gone, the husband, Duke, is obsessed with the Civil War and his wife, Jerene, is obsessed with making sure that the family name still shines.

Book Club 2013

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Dec. 10, 2013	Phylis	The Orphan Train	Christina Baker Kline	The intertwined lives of two orphans - an aged Vivian Daly and a young Molly Ayers, told in juxtaposed stories.
Nov.12, 2013	Ginny	Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant	Anne Tyle	The novel changes perspective and uses flashbacks to give a complete view of the Tull's family relations and their struggle to connect to each other.
Oct. 8, 2013	Penny	The Pecan Man	Cassie Dandridge	Ora Lee Beckworth is a perfectly flawed, ornery but proper southern lady who likes to meddle but means well. The story, set in the civil rights era, centers around her and the family of the woman who helps her with her house.
Sep. 10, 2013	Nancy	Gillespie and I	Jane Harris	Remembrances of an elderly woman of her friendship with a volatile artist and his family, and her place in the controversy that consumes them.
Aug. 13, 2013	Pat	The Kitchen House	Kathleen Grissom	Tale of the South during the days of slavery, told from two different perspectives: Belle, the mulatto daughter of a plantation owner, and Lavinia, a white girl from Ireland who is sent to work in the "kitchen house" with Belle and other "nigras."
Jul. 09, 2013	Kay	Flight Behavior	Barbara Kingsolver	Dellarobia, a bored, poor mother of two small children witnesses an unusual gathering of Monarch butterflies in Southern Appalachia.
Jun. 11, 2013	Clare	Language of Flower	Vanessa Diffenbaugh	The story of Victoria, - her journey to self acceptance and love after years of being raised in the foster care system.
May 14, 2013	Trish	Bent Creek	Marlene Mitchell	A first hand account on how one person struggles to find a way out of poverty in a coal-mining town in Kentucky.
Apr. 09, 2013	Phylis	State of Wonder	Ann Patchett	After an employee of a pharmaceutical company dies in the Amazon, a fellow researcher is sent to find out exactly what happened to him. The novel deals with interesting political and ethical issues related to drug development and reproduction.
Mar. 12, 2013	Ginny	Passing Bells	Phillip Rock	The story follows a English Earl's family and servants as World War I and the horrors of war descends and changes everyone's way of life.
Feb. 12, 2013	Penny	Atlas of Unknowns	Tania James	Set in Kerala, India -- and in Queens, New York -- the novel tells about a family torn apart by betrayal and separated both geographically and by life's choices.
Jan. 08, 2013	Nancy	On Hallowed Ground	Robert M. Poole	History of Arlington National Cemetery

Book Club 2012

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Dec. 11, 2012	Pat	Catherine The Great: Portrait of a Woman - Part 5 to the End	--	--
Nov. 13, 2012	Kay	Catherine The Great: Portrait of a Woman - Through Part 4	Robert K. Massie	A historical account of the 18th century Russian empress who rose from German princess to one of Russia's greatest rulers.
Oct. 9, 2012	Clare	Mao's Last Dancer	Cunxin Li	A poor Chinese peasant is pulled from poverty to attend the Beijing Dance Academy. He defects to the U.S., and then returns with the US troop with his wife to China as the featured dancer.
Sep. 11, 2012	Phylis	The Letter	Marie Tillman	A letter left by a soldier on his way to combat in Afghanistan sustains his wife after his death.
Aug. 14, 2012	Trish	The Snow Child	Eowyn Ivey	Dealing with the unimaginable grief that comes with the loss of a newborn child, married couple Jack and Mabel have moved to the rugged wilderness of 1920's Alaska.
Jul. 10, 2012	Ginny	In The Garden of Beasts	Eric Larson	Historical account of William Dodd and his family's term as ambassador to Pre-Nazi Germany in 1933.
Jun. 12, 2012	Nancy	Loving Frank	Nancy Horan	The fictional recreation of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's love affair and marriage to his second wife, Mamah Borthwick Cheney, and its ultimate tragic ending. Note: field trip to Chicago in Sept!
May 8, 2012	Pat	This I Believe: On Motherhood	Dan Gediman, Mary Jo Gediman and John Gregory	A collection of 60 essays on mothers and motherhood.
Apr. 10, 2012	Kay	A Walk In The Woods	Bill Bryson	Two middle-aged and out of shape men (Bryson and his buddy, Katz) decide to hike the Appalachian Trail.
Mar. 13, 2012	Clare	Trail of Thread	Linda Hubalek	Story of a family traveling from Kentucky to Kansas as told by Deborah Pieratt in letter form to her mother, Betsy Goodpaster.
Feb. 21, 2012	Trish	Death In The City of Light	David King	True story of a serial killer who terrorized Nazi-controlled Paris in 1944.
Jan. 10, 2012	Phylis (at Kay's)	In The Land of Invisible Women	Qanta Ahmed	A Muslim British female doctor tells of the challenges of practicing medicine in Saudi Arabia.

Book Club 2011

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Dec.13, 2011	Ginny	Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy	Eric Metaxas	From his early childhood to his arrest and subsequent martyrdom for his involvement in the conspiracy against Hitler, Metaxas draws from the letters of Bonhoeffer as well as his family to write this biography.
Nov. 8, 2011	Nancy	The Paris Wife	Paula McLain	Set mainly in Paris during prohibition, this tells of Ernest Hemmingway and his first wife, Hadley, how they met, and how their relationship eventually deteriorated.
Oct. 11, 2011	Pat	When Crickets Cry	Charles Martin	What happens a broken hearted man and a small child who is clinging to a thread of life connect, through an act of God.
Sep. 13, 2011	Kay (at Phylis's)	Major Pettigrew's Last Stand	Helen Simonson	A reserved widowed British major falls in love with a Pakistani shop keeper.
Aug. 9, 2011	Clare	Half Broke Horses	Jeannette Walls	The story of the author's maternal grandmother, set in the Southwest US during the women's rights movement.
Jul. 12, 2011	Trish	Orange Is The New Black	Piper Kerman	A woman's account of her year in prison, where she found friendship with other prisoners, love from her family and encouragement from her friends near and far.
Jun 14, 2011	Ginny	A Pearl In The Storm	Tori Murden McClure	Tori Murden McClure attempts to become the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
May 12, 2011	Phylis	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	The story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic athlete who endured incredible hardships during World War II when he was shot down over the ocean and then held as a Japanese prisoner of was.
Apr. 12, 2011	Nancy	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	The story of a poor African-American woman who unknowingly had her cervical cancer cells (dubbed HeLa) used to grow the first immortalized cells cultures.
Mar. 8, 2011	Pat	Strength In What Remains	Tracy Kidder	The story of Deo, a survivor of the Tutsi-Hutu genocide who escaped and went from being a homeless person in New York's Central Park to graduating from Columbia University, and building a medical clinic in his native Burundi.
Feb. 8, 2011		No Meeting
Jan. 11, 2011	Clare	Roses	Leila Meacham	The multi-generational story, spanning a century, of the DuMont, the Tolliver and Warwick families, who started their empire in small town in E. Texas.

Book Club 2010

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Dec. 14, 2010	Kay	One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd	Jim Fergus	At a peace conference by a Cheyenne Indian Chief in 1854, it was agreed to trade white women for horses. The women would become brides and the children of these unions would make assimilation into the white mans society easier.
Nov. 9, 2010	Trish	Home To Big Stone Gap	Adriana Trigiani	Part of a series set in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney's beloved only daughter Etta has married an Italian and is living in his native country. Her new husband, Jack is having health problems.
Oct. 12, 2010	Ginny	A Parchment of Leaves	Silas House	Set in the backwoods of Kentucky at the beginning of WWI, this is a story of a young white man who falls in love with a beautiful Cherokee girl.
Sept 14, 2010	Phylis	The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo	Steig Larsson	A disgraced journalist and a disfunctional but brilliant young woman team up to solve an old mystery of a woman's disappearance.
Aug. 10, 2010	Nancy	Cutting For Stone	Abraham Verghese	The fictional story of two conjoined twins fathered by a brilliant British Surgeon and an Indian Nun.
July 13, 2010	Pat	The Blind Side	Michael Lewis	Story of a southern family that adopts a poor young black student who becomes a star football player.
June 8, 2010	Anne	Where The God Of Love Hangs Out	Amy Bloom	A collection of short stories that are journeys into the lives of very different American families who experience the common traumas of life, such as aging and death.
May 11, 2010	Clare	The Help	Kathryn Stockett	The Help is about a young white woman in the early 1960s in Mississippi who becomes interested in the plight of the black ladies' maids that every family has working for them.
Apr. 13, 2010	All	Trip with husbands to Savannah
Mar. 9, 2010	Kay	Midnight In The Garden Of Good and Evil - The Movie	John Berendt	Combined meeting with the husbands to watch the movie based on the book
Feb. 9, 2010	Trish	Midnight In The Garden Of Good and Evil	John Berendt	A true crime novel set in Savannah, GA. It goes behind velvet curtains and antique walls into a society where pedigree is based as much on lineage, wealth, and power as on quirky southern traditions like knowing how to serve a fine platter of tomato sandwiches.
Jan. 12, 2010	Nancy	Olive Kitteridge	Elizabeth Strout	A "novel" of short stories that tell of small-town Maine residents who all struggle with relationships in the small town of Maisy Mills, Maine, and who all know a common character, Olive Kitteridge.

Book Club 2009

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Dec. 8, 2009	Kay	People of the Book	Geraldine Brooks	In 1996, as rare book expert Dr. Hanna Heath examines the Sarajevo Haggadah, an illuminated Hebrew manuscript from 15th century Spain, she carefully removes a series of artifacts that, under laboratory examination, will offer insight into the remarkable journey of this unusual text.
Nov. 10, 2009	Phylis	The Kabul Beauty School	D.Rodriguez. & Kristin Ohlson	The narrator is a hairdresser from Michigan who is having a difficult time extricating herself from an abusive marriage. She gets the idea to use her beauty skills to travel to Afghanistan and help women there learn cosmetology.
Oct. 13, 2009	Ginny	The Art of Racing in the Rain	Garth Stein	On the eve of his death, Enzo (a dog) tells what amounts to his master's life story.
Sept. 8, 2009	Anne	March	Geraldine Brooks	The author takes the well known story of Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) and weaves a tale centering on the absentee father and husband, Peter March.
Aug. 13, 2009	Clare	The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society	Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows	A series of letters written during the post-World War II years from and to Juliet, a London-based writer, her publisher, her friends, her suitor, and a group of residents of Guernsey (in the Channel Islands) who formed a book club of sorts during the German occupation of the island.
July 14, 2009	Pat	We Are All Welcome Here	Elizabeth Berg	The story about an adult woman polio survivor, her adolescent daughter, and her housekeeper/friend.
June 9, 2009	Trish	Sarah's Key	Tatiana de Rosnay	The story of the 1942 Vel d'Hiv roundup of the Jews in Paris, seen through the eyes of eleven year old Sarah, a French Jew. It is also the story of Julia Jarmond, a journalist living in Paris in 2002 and writing the story about the roundup.
May 12, 2009	Phylis	Mudbound	Hillary Jordan	The end of World War II, sees two the vastly different homecomings for two returning war heroes--one black, one white--to the Jim Crow south.
Apr. 14, 2009	Ginny	Suite Francaise	Irene Nemirovsky and Sandra Smith	A young mother's notes are turned into the novel she was planning to write by her daughters after her capture and execution in WW II by the Nazis. The story tells about the people who lived in occupied France.
Mar. 10, 2009	Nancy	Dreams From My Father	Barack Obama	Memoir written in 1995 of Obama's early years, growing up as the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Africa.
Feb. 10, 2009	Anne	The Story of Edgar Sawtelle	David Wroblewski	Continuing with The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Jan.13, 2009	Kay	The Story of Edgar Sawtelle	David Wroblewski	A mute boy, Edgar, growing up in a family that raises a special breed of highly intelligent dogs, experiences tragedy as his father dies and an uncle steps in his place. When his father's apparitions suggests murder, its investigation precipitates even more tragedy, and Edgar runs away in the companion of his dogs

Book Club 2008

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Dec. 9, 2008	Clare	The Education Of Little Tree	Forrest Carter	A child learns lessons of life from his part-Cherokee grandfather.
Nov. 11, 2008	Pat	The Shack	William P. Young	'Mack' Phillips's young daughter is abducted during a family trip, apparently murdered. Four years later, a mysterious note is delivered to Mack asking him to come back to 'The Shack' where she had been taken. The note was apparently from God.
Oct. 14, 2008	Trish	Escape	Carolyn Jessop	A woman's memoir details life as a wife in an extremist cult of the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints.
Sept. 9, 2008	Phylis	Water For Elephants	Sara Gruen	A 93-year-old man reflects on his life through flashbacks, remembering his time with the circus and living through the depression.
Aug. 12, 2008	Nancy	The Shipping News	Annie Proulx	Quoyle decides to relocate to Newfoundland after his wife is killed in an accident. He, his two daughters and his aunt eventually find happiness living among a cast of interesting characters.
July 8, 2008	Ginny	Mary, Mrs. A. Lincoln	Janis Cooke Newman	A historically-based fictional account of the life of Mary Todd Lincoln.
June 10, 2008	Kay	The Widow's War	Sally Gunning	A newly widowed woman challenges both law and custom in Pre-Revolutionary Cape Cod.
May 13, 2008	Pat	Trip to Actors Theater		The group attends "Menopause, The Musical"
Apr. 8, 2008	Clare	Luncheon of the Boating Party	Susan Vreeland	Based on Renoir's famous painting, the novel combines historical fact with vivid imagination as we learn how the painting came into existence and how the models were chosen, as well as Auguste Renoir's struggling even to cover the costs of purchasing paint.
Mar.11, 2008	Anne	The Archivist's Story	Travis Holland	Set in Russia in the 1930's, the story tells of an archivist torn between his love of literature and his desire to survive, requiring that he destroy unapproved manuscripts.
Feb. 19, 2008	Trish	Boom	Tom Brokaw	A TV journalist's account of the '60's in America. (We discussed this book in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, accompanied by our husbands.)
Jan. 8, 2008	Nancy	Thread Of Grace	Mary Doria Russell	A small group of Italian soldiers and peasants try to save the lives of Jewish refugees from Nazi soldiers by escorting them through a mountain pass and then hiding them, selflessly sacrificing their lives.

Book Club 2007

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Dec. 11, 2007	Phylis	The Faraday Girls	Monica Mcinerney	When 16-yr. old Clementine becomes pregnant, her father and four sisters agree to raise baby "Maggie." Twenty-six years pass, and secrets are revealed.
Nov. 13, 2007	Ginny	The Bean Trees	Barbara Kingsolver	A young woman strikes out on her own, is handed an abandoned baby, and sets up life in Arizona.
Oct. 9, 2007	Kay	The Shadow Of The Wind	Carlos Luis Zafon	A young man, Daniel Sempere, comes upon a hidden book, and becomes fascinated with, and attempts to find out more about, the life of its author, Julian Carax.
Sept. 11, 2007	Anne	Small Island	Andrea Levy	A Jamaican couple moves to London after World War II, and their attempts to settle in and deal with hatred.
August 14, 2007	Trish	A Thousand Splendid Suns	Khaled Hosseini	Two women from very different backgrounds become allies to survive the turmoil and oppression as one Muslim radical group after another takes over the government in modern day Afghanistan.
July 10, 2007	Pat	Midwives	Chris Bohjalian	A thoughtful and provocative look at how a home-birth gone wrong leads to a trial and the effects it has on a family and community.
June 12, 2007	Clare	Snow Flower and the Secret Fan	Lisa See	A novel about women in the Chinese culture of the past; Mother-daughter relationships; Foot-binding; Arranged marriage.
May 8, 2007	Phylis	Vanishing Acts	Jodi Picoult	A young woman finds out that, when she was very young, she was kidnapped by her father. The story tells of her relationship with him, his ex-wife, and her two best friends, to whom one of which she is engaged.
Apr. 10, 2007	Ginny	The Glass Castle	Jeanette Walls	How the author overcame a childhood of adversity and hardship, growing up with an alcoholic father and mentally ill mother, to become a success.
Mar. 13, 2007	Nancy	The Memory Keepers Daughter	Kim Edwards	The birth of fraternal twins, a healthy boy and a girl with Down syndrome, results in the father's disavowal and sending away of his newborn daughter, telling his wife the girl did not survive.
Feb. 13, 2007	Kay	The White	Deborah Larsen	Based on a true story of a woman kidnapped and raised by Native Americans around 1800. A short book written in poetic but Spartan style.
Jan. 9, 2007	Anne	The Things They Carried	Tim O'Brien	O'Brien is both able to effectively convey the raw emotions of being an American soldier in Vietnam as well as helping him exorcise his demons.

Book Club 2006

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Dec. 12, 2006	Trish	The Time Traveler's Wife	Audrey Niffenegger	At the heart of the story is the love of Henry and his wife Clare. Henry has the ability to transport himself in time.
Nov. 14, 2006	Clare	Plain Truth	Jodi Picoult	Katie Fisher, an 18-year-old Amish girl, is pregnant and unmarried. She gives birth in the barn, falls asleep and when she wakes up, the baby is gone.
Oct. 10, 2006	Phylis	Mountains Beyond Mountains	Tracy Kidder	The story of Dr. Paul Farmer's quest to bring modern medicine to Haiti.
Sept. 19, 2006	Ginny	Disgrace	J.M. Coetzee	A South African professor is forced to leave when a sexual romp with a young student no longer remains exclusively behind closed doors
Aug. 8, 2006	Pat	Death Benefit	David Heilbroner	A lawyer investigates the death of a Louisville woman and discovers a 20-year pattern of arson and murder.
July 11, 2006	Nancy	Hershey	Michael D'Antonio	The biography of Milton S. Hershey, the founder of the candy empire and the town.
June 13, 2006	Kay	Adventures In The Mainstream	Greg Palmer	The humorous true story of a father preparing his almost-adult son with Down Syndrome for life as an adult.
May 9 , 2006	Phylis	The Novelist	Angela Hunt	A adventure-series novelist teaches a class and answers the challenge of one of her students to write something deeper and more personal. Her spiritual allegory helps her deal with her troubled son.
Apr. 11, 2006	Clare	In The Company of the Courtesan	Sarah Dunant	A courtesan and her dwarf companion share adventures in Renaissance Italy.
Mar. 14, 2006	Trish	Possession, con't
Feb. 7, 2006	Anne	Possession	A.S. Byatt	Two Victorian researchers, Maud and Roland stumble upon a letter written by reputed Victorian Poet Ash, an uncontroversial figure believed to have led a smooth, rather bland, life. But further research points to a romantic relationship between Ash and a lesser known poet, Christabel.
38727	Ginny	Never Let Me Go	Kazuo Ishiguro	A group of cloned children grow up in an English boarding school, where the truth about their biology is both the cause and effect of some very strange happenings.

Book Club 2005

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Dec. 13, 2005	Pat	Sea Glass	Anita Shreve	Set on the New Hampshire coast during the depression, this is the story of Honora Beecher, a young newlywed who compulsively collects sea glass, and Francis, a boy who discovers a father figure in the of McDermott, an Irish mill worker.
Nov. 8, 2005	Nancy	Devil In The White City	Erik Larson	A story of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 focusing primarily on two men - the architect who was the driving force behind the fair, and a sadistic serial killer working under the cover of the busy fair.
Oct. 11, 2005	Kay	Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons	Lorna Landvik	The five women who comprise a small-town MN reading group do much more than eat candy--and experience many more emotions than anger--over a 30-yr period.
Sept. 13, 2005	Phylis	Good Grief	Lolly Winston	Sophie Stanton goes from newlywed to widow in just three short years of marriage, her competent and confident persona replaced by an Oreo-munching, robe-and-slipper-clad zombie. Sophie leaves her high-pressure, memory-laden Silicon Valley lifestyle for a laid-back Oregon village.
Aug. 9, 2005	Trish	The Life Of Pi	Yann Martel	A 16 year old Indian boy is adrift in a lifeboat with a 450 pound Bengal tiger and a small menagerie of expatriated zoo animals.
July 12, 2005	Clare	The #1 Ladies Detective Agency	Alexander McCall Smith	A series of vignettes linked to the establishment and growth of Mma Ramotswe's "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" both entertain also explore conditions in Botswana in a way that is both penetrating and light.
June 14, 2005	Anne	Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight	Alexandra Fuller	A white African girl's childhood during the Rhodesian civil war (1971-1979) Fuller describes her parents' racism and the wartime relationships between blacks and whites through a child's watchful eyes.
May 10, 2005	Phylis	Reading Lolita In Tehran	Azar Nafisi	Western classics are read and discussed by a group of women who met secretly with Nafisi, an instructor at the University of Tehran. She was expelled in 1997 for shunning the veil.
Apr. 12, 2005	Pat	One True Thing	Anna Quindlen	A daughter quits her top-dog job to care for her cancer-stricken homemaker mother, and also has to deal with her father, a chilly professor who lets the women in the family do the heavy emotional lifting dying requires.
Mar. 8, 2005	Nancy	The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	Two young boys have their friendship challenged in war-torn Afghanistan.
Feb. 8, 2005	Kay	Gravesend Kid	Lionel Lindsay	True story of a boy growing up in Brooklyn, NY.
Jan. 11, 2005	Anne	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time	Mark Haddon	The solution of a mystery, as told from the perspective of an adolescent with autism.

Book Club 2004

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Dec. 14, 2004	Ginny	All Souls	Michael Patrick MacDonald	A true story of a family in South Boston and their violent experiences in the 1970's and 80's.
Nov. 9, 2004	Penny	The Ladies Auxiliary	Tova Mirvis	An Orthodox Jewish group of women in Memphis, TN are disturbed when a new woman moves into their community
Oct. 12, 2004	Clare	Year of Wonders	Geraldine Brooks	A young housekeeper tells the story of how her town dealt with the plague of the 1600's.
Sept. 14, 2004	Pat	Beginners Luck	Laura Pedersen	A rebellious 16-yr-old girl runs away and lives with an eccentric woman and her son for her senior year.
August 10, 2004	Nancy	The Five People You Meet In Heaven	Mitch Albom	An old man dies and meets some interesting people from his past on his way to heaven.
July 6, 2004	Kay	Deception on His Mind	Elizabeth George	Mystery set in a seaside town outside of London involving Pakistani community
June 8, 2004	Phylis	The Wife	Meg Wolitzer	An aspiring author gives up her dreams of being a successful writer to support her husband's writing career.
May 11, 2004	Anne	Namesake	Jhumpa LaHiri	An Indian family adjusts to life in America
April 13, 2004	Clare	The Gates of the Alamo	Stephen Harrigan	A romance and adventure set around the battle of the Alamo
March 9, 2004	Pat	The Keeper's Son	Homer Hickam	A lighthouse keeper's son fights WWII German U-Boats off the coast of N.C.
Feb. 10, 2004	Ginny	To Kill A Mockingbird	Movie night	The VCR movie based on the novel.
Jan. 13, 2004	Nancy	To Kill A Mockingbird	Harper Lee	A young Southern girl sees her lawyer father fight prejudice.

Book Club 2003

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Dec. 9, 2003	Phylis	Secret Life of Bees	Sue Monk Kidd	Neglected girl escapes her father and finds a good life among women who are beekeepers.
Nov. 11, 2003	Anne	Atonement	Ian McKeon	Young aspiring author comes upon her sister and a boy, and then lies about what she saw, changing all their lives.
Oct. 14, 2003	Kay	The Age of Innocence	Edith Wharton	A man and woman are constrained by manners and morals in New York society in the 1870s. Also saw the movie.
Sept. 9, 2003	Penny	Three Junes	Julia Glass	Set in Greece, England and New York over 3 summers, this portrays the relationship between a father, his sons, the gay relationships of one son, and family relationships of the others.
Aug. 12, 2003	Clare	Seabiscuit	Movie Night	Date night for the movie Seabiscuit
July 8, 2003	Ginny	Crossing to Safety	Wallace Stegner	Two couples' friendship as the men become professors, and then one of the woman becomes ill. Set in Vermont.
June 10, 2003	Nancy	Poisonwood Bible	Barbara Kingsolver	A missionary family goes to the Congo in the 1960's where they deal with the difficulties of differences in culture and an insane father.
May 13, 2003	Pat	When The Emperor Was Divine	Julie Otsuka	A Japanese-American family is sent to an internment camp during WWII.
Apr. 8, 2003	Phylis	Next Of Kin	Joanna Trollope	Caro, an American wife in rural England, dies,leaving behind a husband who has long slept in a separate bedroom and an angry adopted daughter. But another young woman Zoe, arrives,and unlike Caro, she finds something compelling in the Meredith's strenuous, earthbound lifestyle--and in Robin, the husband.
Mar. 18, 2003	Kay	The Ditchdigger's Daughters	Yvonne Thornton	An African-American father with 5 daughters challenges them to succeed in life.
Feb. 11, 2003	Anne	Empire Falls (2)	Richard Russo	Story of a declining river town in upstate New York.
Jan. 14, 2003	Penny	Empire Falls (1)	Richard Russo	Story of a declining river town in upstate New York.

Book Club 2002

Date	Host	Title	Author	Summary
Dec. 10, 2002	Clare	Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch	Alice Caldwell	A poor family growing up in Louisville in the 1800's struggles to escape poverty. This tells of the beginnings of the social work done through the Cabbabe Patch program in the poor area of Louisville.
Nov. 12, 2002	Nancy	Evensong	Gail Godwin	Woman Episcopal pastor clashes with female Evangelist who comes to her mountain town.
Oct. 8, 2002	Pat	First Mothers	Bonnie Angelo	The story of eleven 20th century mothers of US presidents
Sept. 10, 2002	Nancy	Clay's Quilt	Silas House	A young man's life within the culture of the KY coal mining area and his struggles to find himself after the death of his mother when he is 4.
Aug. 13, 2002	Phylis	Bee Season	Myla Goldberg	Young girl in a disfunctional family wins a spelling bee and her family becomes wrapped up in her compulsion.
July 9, 2002	Kay	Seabiscuit	Laura Hillenbrand	A horse with a poor pedigree and the three people who made him famous.
June 11, 2002	Clare	Nanny Diaries	Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin	A young woman is hired as a nanny by a rich, disfunctional New York socialite family.
May 14, 2002	Anne	Kingdom Of Shadows	Nicolas Furst	An espionage tale of a Hungarian emigre attempting to keep the Balkan countries out of war in 1937.
April 9, 2002	Ginny	Andorra	Peter Cameron	A mythical place where a man seeks to begin his life over, but is caught up in a murder.
Mar. 12, 2002	Penny	The Professor's House	Willa Cather	Professor experiencing a mid-life crisis resists a move to a bigger more modern house.
Feb. 12, 2002	Ginny	Icebound	Jerri Nielsen and Maryanne Vollers	A doctor leaves her family and goes to the South Pole as the only doctor. While there, she discovers a lump in her breast.
Jan. 8, 2002	Pat	The Pact	Jodi Picoult	The story of a 17-yr-old boy, his girlfriend who may have committed suicide, and their families dealing with her death and the resulting trial.

Book Club 2001

Date	Title	Author	Summary
Dec. 2001	Fools of Fortune	William Trevor	The story of a man's life as it is affected by the death of his father and sister who are killed for siding with Irish rebels
Nov. 2001	Wonder Boys	Michael Chabon	A college professor and his misadventures with one of his distressed students.
	Diary for Nicholas		The parents attempt to adjust to life after the death of a child.
Sept. 2001	Girl With A Pearl Earring	Tracy Chevalier	Fictional story of the servant's life of the subject in a painting by Vermeer
Aug. 2001	The Sot Weed Factor	John Barth	Difficult book written about a young aristocrat in Europe and how he attempts to better himself through ridiculous schemes.
July 2001	Alias Grace	Margaret Atwood	Historical Fiction of a servant in Canada in 1800's accused of killing her employers
June 2001			Book suggestions were submitted
May 2001	The Red Tent	Anita Diamant	A fictional account based on the story of Rachel and Jacob in the Bible
Apr. 2001	Chocolat		Story of a shake up in the culture of a small French village dominated by the Catholic Church.
Mar. 2001	Ahab's Wife	Sena Jeta Nashund	Fictional story of the wire of Capt. Ahab in Moby Dick. Written in the style of the 1800's.
Feb. 2001	Clear Springs	Bobbie Ann Mason	Autobiographical piece of the author's early life in Clear Springs, KY.
Jan.2001	Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind	Ann B. Ross	Story of a recently widowed southern belle who discovers her husband has had a child with another woman and the scandal that ensues.

Book Club 2000

Date	Title	Author	Summary
Dec. 2000	Traveling Mercies	Anne Lamott	True story of a "New Age" woman and how she could see God through her various life choices.
Nov. 2000	Open House	Elizabeth Berg	Story of a newly divorced woman and the adjustments she has to make.
Oct. 2000	Jim The Boy	James Early	A 10-year old boy is raised by a widow and her brothers in rural NC in the 1930's.
Sept. 2000	Pope Joan	Donna Woolfold Cross	Historical fiction about a 9th century woman who disguises herself as a man and becomes Pope.
Aug. 2000			No meeting.
July 2000	Keeping Faith		A young girl affects a custody battle when she has visions of God.
June 2000	Maybe/Maybe Not	Robert Fulgham	Observations on human nature.
May 2000	The Believers	Janice Holt Giles	Fictional account of living within the Shaker culture.
Apr. 2000	The Sparrow	Mary Doria Russell	A science fiction story of the one Jesuit who survived and returned to earth after visiting another planet in 2060.
Mar. 2000	The Color of Water	James McBride	True story of a Jewish mother and her black children.
Feb. 2000	A Map of the World	Jane Hamilton	Sad story of the aftermath of a neighbor's child drowning while in the care of her mother's friend.
Jan. 2000	The Loop	Nicholas Evans	Story of the federal program to save wolves vs. ranchers in Montana

Book Club 1999

Date	Title	Author	Summary
Dec. 1999	Kiss of God	Marshall Stewart Ball	Poetry of developmentally handicapped child.
Nov. 1999	Night of Many Dreams	Gail Tsukiyama	Tale of two sisters growing up in Hong Kong in 1940's.
Oct. 1999	Memoires of a Geisha	Arthur Golden	A geisha tells of her culture.
Sept. 1999	The Odd Sea Snow Angels	Grederick Reiken Stewart O'Nan	Stories of adolescence.
Aug. 1999	Jacob's Ladder	Donanl McCaig	Civil War story told though the eyes of a slave.