From the Library

The PW Reading List: 2010-2011

Acts of Faith: the story of an American Muslim; the struggle for the soul of a generation by Eboo Patel (305.6 Pat)

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: creating currents of electricity and hope by William Kamkwamba (920 Kam)

Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat (920 Dan)

Half the Sky: turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide by Nicholas Kristof (362.8 Kri)

A People’s History of Christianity: the other side of the story, by Diana Bass (270 Bas)

Stones Into Schools; promoting peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Greg Mortenson (371.8 Mop)

The Rapture Exposed: the message of hope in the Book of Revelation by Barbara Rossing (236.9 Ros)

Rediscovering Values: on Wall Street, Main Street, and your street; a moral compass for the new economy, by Jim Wallis (174.4 Wal)

Strength In What Remains by Tracy Kidder (920 Niy)

Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers (363.3 Egg)

FICTION

Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls (Fiction WallHal)

The Help, by Kathryn Stockett (Fiction Stoltel)

Journey Home, a passage to womanhood by Toni Eubanks (Fiction EsuJoo) Local Author

Remnants, by Kiki Swanson (Fiction SwaRem) Local Author

Still Alice, by Lisa Genova (FICTION GdeSti) Endorsed by the Alzheimers Association

Book of the Month

The Book of the Month meets the third Friday of each month from 10:30—11:30 a.m. in the Conference Room.

          Titles selected for discussion for January to May 2011 are:

January 21      

             The Madonnas of Leningrad

             by Debra Dean (Fiction DeanMad)

February 18

To Kill a Mockingbird

By Harper Lee (Fiction LbhTo)

March 18

The Plague of Doves

By Louise Erdrich (Fiction EprPla)

April 15

Zeitoun

By Dave Eggers (363.3 Egg)

May 20

People of the Book

By Geraldine Brooks (Fiction BrkPeo)

Titles are subject to change depending on availability in paperback. 

Everyone is welcome to attend these informal discussions. For questions about this program, contact Janet Neese.

BOOK OF THE MONTH

The February title selected for discussion is To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (Fiction LhhTo).

A lawyer in the deep south defends a black man accused of raping a white girl. This book was first published in 1960 and won a Pulitzer prize.

Date: Friday, February 18.  Please note correct date.

Time: 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.

Place: Conference Room

Titles selected for discussion are on one week loan until after the discussion date. Everyone is welcome to attend these informal discussions.

For information about this program contact Janet Neese