Adult Book ClubsThe Holmes Library offers two book discussion groups for adult readers. We continue to offer our monthly evening group, and have added an afternoon book club more convenient for our Senior readers. Please feel free to try either group! Copies of the books are available at the Circulation Desk, or can be reserved through our iBistro catalog. For more information or to sign up, contact Jean for the evening group and Susan for the afternoon group. |
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| August | The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean |  |
| July | Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan | |
| June | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows | |
| May | The Penny by Joyce Meyer and Deborah Bedford | |
| April | The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Allen Bradley | |
| March | Sudden Sea by R. A. Scotti | |
| February | Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell |  |
| January '10 | The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser | ~ |
| December | In a Gilded Cage by Rhys Bowen | |
| November | Never Tell a Lie by Hallie Ephron (author visit) | |
| October | The History of Love by Nicole Krauss | |
| September | The Widow's War by Sally Gunning |
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| August | The Eleventh Man by Ivan Doig |
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| June | First Light by Philip R. Craig and William Tapply |
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| May | Black Mass by Dick Lehr |
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| April | Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland |
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| March | Limitations by Scott Turow |
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| February | Harriet and Isabella by Patricia O'Brien |
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| January | How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life by Mameve Medwed |
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| December | The Childrens Blizzard by David Laskin |
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| November | Deafening by Frances Itani |
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| October | Blessings by Anna Quindlen |
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| September | North River by Pete Hamill |
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Death in Belmont by Sebastion Junger |
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro |
The Afternoon Readers' Book Club
For more information or to sign up, please contact Susan at (781)293-2271 or by email. This month's selection...
The Secret
by Beverly Lewis
Tuesday, September 21 at 1 p.m.
Publishers Weekly
Popular novelist and Amish specialist Lewis (The Brethren) launches a new series with this volume. Two young women, Amish Grace Byler and graduate student Heather Nelson, stand as counterpoints in parallel plots involving two secrets. Grace's mother is troubled; Heather, whose mother has died of cancer, tells no one in her circle of her own diagnosis of terminal illness, which drives her to Pennsylvania Amish country in search of healing. Grace's mother makes a decision that painfully complicates the action and drives it forward. Grace, her family and friends and the Amish milieu are drawn with characteristically ample detail, right down to jars of preserves set out on the tables at many bountiful Amish meals. Lots of powerful emotions go characteristically unspoken in this reticent culture, though the reader won't miss them. By comparison, the emotional high-stakes Heather plot is less detailed and consequently less engrossing. Lewis lays out—and knots—many plot threads to pursue and resolve in subsequent installments in the series, ensuring readers' return.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Books We Have Read
| August | Away With the Fairies by Kerry Greenwood | |
| July | Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan | |
| June | Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen | |
| May | Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood | |
| May | Run by Ann Patchett | |
| April | Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi | |
| March | Watchers of Time by Charles Todd | |
| February | The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman | |
| January | A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve | |
| December | The Cat Who Came For Christmas by Cleveland Amory | |
| November | Lily of the Valley by Suzanne Strempek Shea | |