2008 Book Club Selections


"Books brought us together but friendship is really what it is all about." -- Author Unknown


Women's Book Club 1:
Chairman: Sydell Winer
 Wed, Jan 2, 10:30 am"March," Geraldine Brooks
 Wed, Feb 6, 10:30 am"Moby Dick," Herman Melville
  Wed, Mar 5, 10:30 am "Away," Amy Bloom
  Wed. Apr 2, 10:30 am ("Books & Breakfast" Event at Vista del Mar)
  Wed. May 7, 10:30 am "Nine Parts of Desire," Geraldine Brooks
  Wed. Jun 4, 10:30 am "Crossing to Safety," Wallace Stegner
  Wed. Jul 2, 10:30 am "The Inheritance of Lost," Kiran Desai
  Wed. Aug 6, 10:30 am "People of the Book," Geraldine Brooks
  Wed. Sep 3, 10:30 am "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time," Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
  Wed. Oct 1, 10:30 am (No Meeting)
 Wed. Nov 5, 10:30 am"Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History," Ted Sorenson
 Wed, Dec 3, 10:30 am"A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier," Ishmael Beah


Women's Book Club 2:
Chairmen: Eileen Schwartz
  Wed, Jan 2, 10:30 am "A Thousand Splendid Suns," Khaled Hosseini
 Wed. Feb 6, 10:30 pm "Loving Frank," Nancy Horan
  Wed, Mar 5, 10:30 am "O Jerusalem," Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre
  Wed. Apr 2, 10:30 am ("Books & Breakfast" Event at Vista del Mar)
  Wed. May 7, 10:30 am "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time," Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
  Wed, Jun 4, 10:30 am "The Associates: How Four Capitalists Created California," Richard Rayner
  Wed, Jul 23, 10:30 am "And No More Sorrow," Liliane Pelzman
  Wed, Aug 6, 10:30 am (No Meeting)
  Wed, Sep 3, 10:30 am "The Fixer," Bernard Malamud
     


Men's Book Club:
Chairmen: Mel Small & Hal Winer
  Wed, Jan 2, 1:15 pm "Oh, Jerusalem," Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins
  Wed, Feb 6, 1:15 pm "The Toughest Show on Earth: My Rise and Reign at the Metropolitan Opera," Joseph Volpe
  Wed, Mar 5, 1:15 pm "The English Patient," Michael Ondaatje
  Wed. Apr 2, 1:15 pm"The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin," Gordon S. Wood
  Wed, May 7, 1:15 pm "Murder on K Street," Margaret Truman
  Wed, Jun 4, 1:15 pm "The Lieutenants: Brotherhood of War," W.E.B. Griffin
  Wed, Jul 2, 1:15 pm "At the Center of the Storm: The CIA During America's Time of Crisis," George Tenet
  Wed, Aug 6, 1:15 pm "Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed," Ben Rich & Leo Janos
  Wed, Sep 3, 1:15 pm "Blindness," Jose Saramago
    



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