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Thursday,
September 8, 6:30 p.m.
The Quiet Game
by Greg Iles
Discussion Leader – Sandee Morris
Salad Supper - Hostesses
Barbara Hutchinson and Candee Jacobs
Thursday, October 13,
7:00 p.m.
Winter Garden
by Kristin Hannah
Discussion Leader – Brenda Fletcher
Refreshments – Barb Schul and Karen
Bohlender
Thursday, November 10,
7:00 p.m.
Hunger
Games by Suzanne Collins
Discussion Leader – Barb Schul
Refreshments –Mary Edwards and Julie
Fahrmeier
No Meeting in December
Thursday, January 12,
7:00 p.m.
Kansas Reads Book – Our Boys by
Joe Drape - Newberry Winner
Moon Over Manifest by Claire
Vanderpool
Discussion Leader – Orin and Lenora
Marshall
Refreshments – Orin and Lenora Marshall
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Thursday, February 9,
7:00 p.m.
Someone
Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
Discussion Leader – Chris Barnett
Refreshments – Helen Abramson and Chris
Barnett
Thursday, March 8,
7:00 p.m.
Cutting for Stone by Abraham
Verghse
Discussion Leader – Gail
Schmitz
Refreshments –Eunice Clark and Gay Bartell
Thursday, April 12,
7:00 p.m.
Gone With
the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Discussion Leader – Julie Fahrmeier
Refreshments – Bring your favorite snack to
share
Thursday, May 10,
7:00 p.m.
When the
Lions Feed by Wilbur Smith
Discussion Leader – Helen Abramson
Refreshments – Gail Schmitz and Brenda
Fletcher
Thursday, June 25, 12 noon
Saving Cee Cee Honeycut by Beth
Hoffman
Discussion Leader – Candee Jacobs
Refreshments – Potluck Luncheon |
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Book
Blurbs
The Quiet Game – Penn Cage is no
stranger to death. As a Houston prosecutor he sent sixteen men to
death row, and watched seven of them die. But now, in the aftermath
of his wife’s death, the grief-stricken father packs up his four
year old daughter, Annie, and returns to his hometown in search of
healing. But peace is not what he finds there. Natchez, Mississippi,
is the jewel of the antebellum South, a city of old money and older
sins, where passion, power, and racial tensions seethe beneath its
elegant façade.
Winter Garden
– Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be.
One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple
orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become
a famous photojournalist. But when their beloved father falls ill,
Meredith and Nina find themselves together again, standing alongside
their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, who even now, offers no
comfort to her daughters.
Hunger Games
– Katniss is a 16 year old living with her mother and younger sister
in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used to be the
United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and
were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agrees
to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event
called, “The Hunger Games.” The terrain, rules, and level of
audience participation may change but one thing is constant; kill or
be killed.
Our Boys –
The football team in Smith Center, Kansas, holders of the nation’s
longest high-school winning streak, embrace a philosophy of life
taught by their legendary coach Roger Barta. Hours removed from the
nearest city, the town revolves around “our boys” in a way that goes
to the heart of what America’s heartland is today.
Moon Over Manifest
is a young adult novel by Clare Vanderpool from Wichita, Kansas.
Abilene Tuck has been sent to say with friends of her father in
Manifest, Kansas in 1936. Abilene is unhappy being separated from
her father and hopes that he will return for her before the end of
the summer. To keep her occupied, Abilene attempts to unravel a
mystery apparent in a group of letters she finds hidden in the room
she is living in with her father’s friend, Shady Howard. This
mystery, however, will reveal more than the identity of a spy as
Abilene finds her place in Manifest.
Someone Knows My
Name – Kidnapped as a child from Africa, Aminata Diallo is
enslaved in South Carolina but escapes during the chaos of the
Revolutionary War. In Manhattan she becomes a scribe for the
British, recording the names of blacks who have served the King and
earned freedom in Nova Scotia. But the hardship and prejudice there
prompt her to follow her heart back to Africa, then on to London,
where she bears witness to the injustices of slavery and its toll on
her life and a whole people.
Cutting for Stone
–Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret
union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at
a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death
in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a
preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the
twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution.
Gone With the Wind
– First published in May 1936 is a story set in Clayton County,
Georgia and Atlanta during the American Civil War and
Reconstruction. The novel, depicts the experiences of Scarlett
O’Hara, who ages from sixteen to twenty eight years of age in the
novel, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do-plantation owner, who
must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty that
she finds herself in after Sherman’s March to the Sea. This is the
75th Anniversary of the novel.
When the Lion
Feeds – When the Lion Feeds by Wilbur Smith is a gripping
saga beginning with the introduction of twin brothers in Natal in
the 1870’s. Sean and Garrick Courtney are as close as two brothers
can be, and as different at the same time. Bonded from birth, their
lives intertwine. Sean is the dominant brother – his father’s
favorite, and Garrick is mostly content to follow in his shadow. It
is this dynamic that orchestrates the hunting accident leaving
Garrick without a leg, and Sean responsible.
Saving CeeCee
Honeycutt – Steel Magnolias meets the Help in this Southern
debut novel sparked with humor, heart and feminine wisdom. It is a
novel that explores the indomitable strengths of female friendships
and gives us the story of a young girl who loses one mother and
finds many others. |
