2nd Saturday Book Club Reads 2010
Annotation:As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby, genteel Edinburgh, find themselves in a vast and complex world at the heart of the British Empire. Years later their fates become inextrcably connected. A fictionalized narrative of actual events, this book was nominated for the Booker Prize - Barnes' third nomination.
Annotation:The setting for Stockett's debut novel is 1960s Jackson, Mississippi. The story is about the lives of black maids and the white women they serve. The voices are perfect pitch, and while the story deals with serious topics, there is humor for the reader and lessons for all.
Annotation:A fictionalized biography of Nonhelema, called the Grenadier Squaw, a Shawnee peace chief on the Ohio Frontier during the Revolutionary War.
Annotation:A novel about character that just happens to be about Crime.
Annotation:Kansas City's Satchel Paige - athelete, showman, storyteller, loveable rogue. Tye's challenge was to separate the truth of Satchel's life from the fiction Satchel so enjoyed spreading. A rollicking ride through baseball's growth years...with the man who laid the ground work in the '30s & '40s for Jackie Robinson's breakthrough in 1948.
Annotation:Paul Milliron is in charge of closing the last one-room schoolhouse in Montana. On the eve of making that decision public, Supertintendent Milliron recalls his own youth. As the son of a homesteader and a former student in a one room school house on the glorious high prairie of Montana in 1913, he shares a distinctly American experience.
Annotation:One of [English] history's most shocking crimes - the murder of the two Princes in the Tower by their uncle, the evil, hunchbacked Richard III - reexamined by a 20th century detective. This is Josephine Tey's most famous title, considered a classic of the mystery genre.
Annotation:Following the defeat of his Bullmoose Party bid for the White House in 1913, Theodore Roosevelt embarked on a truly remarkable journey to the Amazon Jungle.
Annotation:As the failure of appeasement becomes grimly apparent and Hitler marches into Prague, Nicholas Morath, a Hungarian aristocrat and ex-cavalry officer, is drawn increasingly into danger, as quiet favors become secret missions, until he is risking his life behind enemy lines for the future of a free Europe.
Annotation:When her father uses the family home as bond collateral, and then skips, 17 year old Rees strikes out to find him and bring him in for the court date. But in a meth laced rural region, the locals, even her own family members, have nothing to gain by helping her - and much to lose.
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The titles selected for discussion by the 2nd Saturday Book Club of the Shawnee Neighborhood Library, Johnson County Library in 2010
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