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The Snowbound Book Club is open to anyone interested in the current selection. We meet once a month at Chapter Two at 7:30 pm. (see below for dates)

For those of you who have never been in a book club and think that you "don't know how to talk about books," I do have a few pointers. As you are reading, mark any passages that seem particularly wonderful, or even horrible, to you. It could be the writing, the idea or an image that strikes you, but it's something to talk about. You'd be surprised how often someone else has the same paragraph marked.

March 26 - This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
This Earth of Mankind, the first novel in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's series known as the Buru Quartet, tells of the adventures of Minke, a young Javanese student living equally amongst the Dutch colonists and the colonized Javanese of late nineteenth-century. It is through a beautiful woman named Annelies and her family that Minke finds the strength to embrace the world of Indonesia, a world brimming with beauty and possibility as well as brutality and anger. This remarkable tale, the first in the Buru Quartet, was originally recited orally by Indonesian political prisoner Toer to his fellow cellmates in daily installments. ~ publisher description.

April 30 - Kindred by Octavia Butler

Recently reissued in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Kindred is a thought-provoking novel of identity. In our day and age, it’s easy to look back to the antebellum South and vow that we would act differently than those living then. We’d like to think that we wouldn’t let ourselves become slaves, nor own them, but Butler shows us that the issue isn’t as black and white as we’d like to think. When a twentieth century woman is snatched back in time to rescue her slave-owning ancestor, we witness how easy it is to fall into the mindset of the times. By overlaying a modern sensibility on the social mores of the past, Butler demonstrates that the will to survive may compromise even our deepest beliefs. A very compelling and thought-provoking novel. ~ Dana

May 21 - Tales From the Town of Widows by James Canon

One Sunday morning, a band of guerrillas comes to Mariquita and takes all the men away, leaving behind only the priest and a fair-skinned boy disguised as a little girl. Without men, the small Colombian mountain village becomes a sinking wasteland filled with women resigned to food shortages, littered streets, and mourning. But Rosalba viuda de Patiño, wife of the former police sergeant, envisions a different future for the town of widows. Declaring herself magistrate, she promises to instill law and order, and restore the failing economy and infrastructure—and proceeds to create a utopia far greater than any revolutionary's imagined ideal society. Deft, rich, and darkly humorous, Tales from the Town of Widows marks the arrival of an unforgettable new literary talent. ~ from publisher description

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Local Book Group Selections

    AAUW
  • March - A Land Remembered by Smith
  • April - Gentlemen and Players by Harris
    ALLIANCE
  • March 11 - Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
  • April 8 - Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
  • May - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
    BETWEEN THE SHEETS (aka COLD CEREAL)
  • February - The French Liutenant's Woman by Fowles
  • March - The Thief Taker by Gleeson
  • April - Like Water for Chocolate by Esquivel
    BLUESTOCKINGS (3rd Tues)
  • March - The Thirteenth Tale by Setterfield
  • April - No Great Mischief by MacLeod
  • May - Infidel by Ali (tentative)
    BOOKENDS
  • March 26 - Glass Castle by Walls
  • April 30 - Eye Contact by McGovern
  • May 28 - Best Friends by Moody
  • August - Water for Elephants by Gruen
  • September 24 - Lost and Found by Parkhurst
  • October 29 - Three Cups of Tea by Mortenson
  • November 26 - City of Falling Angels by Berendt
    BOOKER BABES
  • March - The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
  • May - Nick Adams Stories by Hemingway
  • July - Double Bind by Bohjalian
    BOOKMARCS
  • March - Dreams FRom my Father by Obama
    BOUND TO READ
  • March - Razor's Edge by Maugham
    CAHOOTS
  • February - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
    DOZEN DAMES
  • March - Memory Keeper's Daughter by Edwards
    FLIP, QUIP, & SIP (1st Tues)
  • February - Water for Elephants by Gruen
    JEZEBELS
  • May 21 - Alias Grace by Atwood
    LAKEVIEW TEACHERS
  • February - THe Book Thief by Zusak
    MARQUETTE FOOD CO-OP This is an open group and meets in the Conference Room above the Co-op on Thursday, January 31, at 7 p.m. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
    NMU WOMEN 2007-2008
  • March 25 - Suite Francaise by Nemirovsky
  • April 22 - Omnivore's Dilemma by Pollan
  • May 27 - Postville by Bloom
  • June 24 - Eat, Pray, Love by Gilbert
    PETER WHITE PUBLIC LIBRARY
    (Meets 1st Tues. of every month & is open to anyone interested in the current book. Contact Caroline Jordan 228-9510 for more info.)
  • March - A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
  • April - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
    SEABISCUITS
  • April - Julia's Chocolates by Lamb
    SECOND SUNDAY
  • March - Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini
  • April - Master of Souls by Tremayne
    SHEATHENS
    SHELTER BAY
  • March - The Worst Hard Time by Egan
    SIDETRACKED READERS (Crystal Falls)
  • March - Saving Grace by Edwards
  • April - The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar WIlde
  • May - Buffalo for the Broken Heart by Dan O'Brien
  • June - Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
    SINE NOMENE
  • 1000 White Women by Fergus
    SUNFLOWERS
  • February - Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
    SUPERIOR WILD WOMEN
  • March - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Haddon
  • April - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie
    THREAD OF GRACE
    This group is open to any woman "looking to share the reading of books and what we think, hope and question" Meets the 4th Wednesday of the month at Grace Methodist Church (927 W. Fair, Mqt.) at 7 p.m.
  • February - Last Days of Dog Town by Diamant
    THURSDAYS WITH PETER
    TOTAL IMMERSION
  • March - THe Secret River by Grenville
    TWISTED SISTERS
  • Mar - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hossieni
  • April/May - Pillars of the Earth by Follett
SB Book Club - March

This Earth of Mankind,
by Toer, Pramoedya Ananta

$15.00
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This Earth of Mankind, the first novel in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's series known as the Buru Quartet, tells of the adventures of Minke, a young Javanese student living equally amongst the Dutch colonists and the colonized Javanese of late nineteenth-century. It is through a beautiful woman named Annelies and her family that Minke finds the strength to embrace the world of Indonesia, a world brimming with beauty and possibility as well as brutality and anger.
ISBN: 0140256350


SB Book Club - April

Kindred,
by Butler, Octavia E.

$14.00
Order

This 25th anniversary edition, about a modern black woman who is snatched away to the antebellum South, celebrates a classic work with "much to say about love, hate, slavery, and racial dilemmas, then and now" ("Los Angeles Herald Examiner").
ISBN: 0807083690


SB Book Club - May

$14.95
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After their men are kidnapped by communist guerillas, the women of a mountain village in Colombia learn how to survive and create a peaceful new community. Four of the men return years later, forcing the women to negotiate between past and present, custom and independence.
ISBN: 0061140392


New in Hardcover

$17.99
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Originally published in 1964, Silverstein's first collection of poetry about a band of unusual creatures housed in Uncle Shelby's Zoo is available once again, this time in full color.
ISBN: 9780061493386


New in Hardcover

Mudbound,
by Jordan, Hillary

$22.95
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Winner of the Bellwether Prize for Fiction, "Mudbound" is storytelling at the height of it's powers: the ache of wrongs not yet made right, the fierce attendance of history made real (Barbara Kingsolver), as men and women from two families become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale.
ISBN: 9781565125698


New in Hardcover

The Commoner,
by Schwartz, John Burnham

$24.95
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BookPage Notable Title
It is 1959 when Haruko marries the Crown Prince of Japan. Thirty years later, now Empress herself, she plays a crucial role in persuading another young woman to accept the marriage proposal of her son, with consequences both tragic and dramatic.
ISBN: 9780385515719



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