Library Book Clubs 2014 Discussion List

Beaver Dam Community Library

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The library offers book clubs at different times of the day for booklovers who would like to get together to

discuss popular and thought-provoking titles. Both book clubs discuss the same book each month.

The library offers book clubs at different times of the day for lovers of books who would like to get together to discuss popular and thought-provoking titles. Both Book Clubs discuss the same book each month. Book Club books are available on the Front Desk or we can place a copy on hold from another library.

Morning Booklovers Book Club

The morning book club meets on Thursday mornings each month at 10 a.m.

Evening Next Page Book Club

The evening book club meets on a Wednesday evening each month at 6 p.m.

Wednesday, January 15 - 6 p.m. and Thursday, January 16 at 10 a.m. Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole Fiction, 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist A love story told in letters spans two world wars and follows the correspondence between a poet on the Scottish Isle of Skye and an American volunteer ambulance driver for the French Army, an affair that is discovered years later when the poet disappears. For more about Letters from Skye go to: http://www.jabrockmole.com

Wednesday, February 12 - 6 p.m. and Thursday, February 13 - 10 a.m. A Good American by Alex George It is 1904. When Frederick and Jette must flee her disapproving mother, where better to go than America, land of the new? Originally set to go to New York, at the last minute, they take one destined for New Orleans instead and later find themselves, more by chance than by design, in the small town of Beatrice, Missouri. Not speaking a word of English, they embark on their new life together. A Good American is narrated by Freder-ick and Jette's grandson, James, who, in telling his ancestors' story, comes to realize he doesn't know his own story at all. Each new generation discovers afresh what it means to be an American.

Wednesday, March 12- 6 p.m. and Thursday, March 13 - 10 a.m. The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls Fiction Two motherless sisters--Bean and Liz--are shuttled to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that's been in their family for generations. When school starts in the fall, Bean easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz becomes increasingly with-drawn. Then something happens to Liz and Bean is left to challenge the injustice of the adult world.

Wednesday, April 9- 6 p.m. and Thursday, April 10- 10 a.m. The Bread of Angels by Stephanie Saldaña Non-Fiction, Memoir A riveting memoir about one woman's journey into Syria under the Baathist regime and an unexpected love story between two strangers searching for meaning. When Stephanie Saldaña arrives in Damascus, she is running away from a broken heart and a haunted fam-ily history. As she moves into a tumbling house in the heart of the Old City, she is unpre-pared for the complex world that awaits her: an ancient capital where Sunni and Shia Muslims, Christians, Alawites, Kurds, and Palestinian and Iraqi refugees share a fragile co-existence. What follows is a tender story of a woman falling in love: with God, with her

own life, with a country on the brink of chaos, and with a man she knows she can never have. The Bread of Angels celebrates the hope that appears even in war, surprising places we can call home, and the possibility of love.

Wednesday, May 7- 6 p.m. and Thursday, May 8 - 10 a.m. Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler Fiction, Nominated for 2013 Goodreads Choice Awards A soaring debut novel that interweaves the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship. Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis. It's a big one. Isabelle wants Dorrie, a black single mom in her thirties, to drop everything to drive her from her home in Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati. With no clear explanation why. Tomorrow.

Wednesday, June 4 - 6 p.m. and Thursday, June 5 - 10 a.m. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline,

Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to "aging out" out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse...As she helps Vivian sort through her posses-sions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Minne-sota with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance. Molly discovers that she has the power to help Vivian find answers to mysteries

that have haunted her for her entire life--answers that will ultimately free them both.

Wednesday, July 16 - 6 p.m. and Thursday, July 17 - 10 a.m. An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski, Valerie Salembier Non-Fiction, New York Times Bestseller The Invisible Thread tells of the unlikely friendship between a busy executive and a disad-vantaged young boy, and how both of their lives changed forever. When Laura Schroff first met Maurice on a New York City street corner, she had no idea that she was standing on the brink of an incredible and unlikely friendship that would inevitably change both their lives.

As one lunch at McDonald's with Maurice turns into two, then into a weekly occurrence that is fast growing into an inexplicable connection, Laura learns heart-wrenching details about Maurice's horrific childhood.

Wednesday, August 13 - 6 p.m. and Thursday, August 14 - 10 a.m. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker Fiction, Amazon Best Books of the Month The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be…until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mys-tery and coming to terms with her father’s past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. There she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and pas-

sion that will reaffirm the reader’s belief in the power of love to move mountains.

Wednesday, September 10 - 6 p.m. and Thursday, September 11 - 10 a.m. Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver Tired of living on a failing farm and suffering oppressive poverty, bored housewife Dellaro-bia Turnbow, on the way to meet a potential lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever. For more about Flight Behavior go to: http://www.kingsolver.com/books/flight-behavior.html

Midwest

Fiction

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Wednesday, October 8 - 6 p.m. and Thursday, October 9 - 10 a.m. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Fiction, Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book Oct. 11th, 1943-A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and pas-senger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mis-sion or face a grisly execution. As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in

the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home.

Wednesday, November 5 - 6 p.m. and Thursday, November 6 - 10 a.m. Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace by Michael Perry Wisconsin

Non-Fiction, 2013 Midwest Booksellers Choice Award in Nonfiction What can we learn about life, love, and artillery from an eighty-two-year-old man whose favorite hobby is firing his homemade cannons? Visit by visit—often with his young daughters in tow—author Michael Perry is about to find out. Wisconsin author Michael Perry details his experiences and conversations with his neighbor Tom Hart-wig, who, armed with an arsenal of stories and an anti-authoritarian streak a mile wide, offers guidance and inspiration.

For more about Michael Perry and his writing go to: http://sneezingcow.com/

Wisconsin

Fiction

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