Blossburg Memorial Library Book Club
The club meets the last Monday night of the month
at 6:30 pm in the community room. All adults are welcome to
attend. Babysitting services are available free of charge.
July
The Children's Blizzard
by David Laskin
Discussion date: July 28, 2008
Synopsis
Thousands of impoverished
Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered
"land, freedom, and hope." The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed
that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving
place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor
controlled, and America's heartland would never be the same.
 August
Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
Discussion date: August 25, 2008
Synopsis
As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety
train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on
Earth. It was the early part of the great Depression, and for Jacob,
now ninety, the circus world he remembers was both his salvation and
a living hell. A veterinary student just shy of a degree, he was put
in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It was there that he
met Marlena, the beautiful equestrian star married to August, the
charismatic but twisted animal trainer. And he met Rosie, an
untrainable elephant who was the great gray hope for this third-rate
traveling show. The bond that grew among this unlikely trio was one
of love and trust, and, ultimately, it was their only hope for
survival.
Book Club - Upcoming Titles
July: The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin
August: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
September: The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff
October: Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
November: The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
December: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
January 2009: Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
Previous Book Club Favorites
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna
Landvik
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Lucia Lucia by Adriana Trigiani
Riding the Bus with My Sister by Rachel Simon
Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
Killer Smile by Lisa Scottoline
Friendship Cake by Lynne Hinton
All He Ever Wanted by Anita Shreve
A Year by the Sea by Joan Anderson
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks
Blessings by Anna Quindlen
Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Last Girls by Lee Smith
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
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