Our book discussion group meets the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 5 pm.
Please call 802-368-7506 for more details or visit:
https://whitinghamvt.org/library/announcements/book-discussion-group-11
Whitingham Free Public Library, Jacksonville, VT
TITLES FOR THE WHITINGHAM, ETC. BOOK GROUP FOR 2024 .
January: THE PARIS APARTMENT/LUCY FOLEY explores how loyalty & inherent survival instincts can be exploited for wealth and security. (Published February 2022)
February: THE GENIUS OF BIRDS/JENNIFER ACKERMAN info on a bird's intelligence 04/15)
March: DINNERS WITH RUTH/ NINA TOTENBERG. A memoir on the power of friendship (9/2022)
April: MERCY STREET BY JENNIFER HAIGH. Explains the abortion issue from both sides...prochoice and pro-life. Published February 2022
May: BUMBLEBEE ECONOMICS BY BERND HEINRICH an introduction to insect and plant ecology focusing on the adaptive bumblebee Published 1979
June: THE BOOK OF TWO WAYS BY JODIE PICOULT. Dawn Edelstein journeys into her past to determine her future (Boston to Egypt). Published September 2020
July: PACINKO BY MINJIN LEE a novel (historical fiction) follows a Korean family who immigrates to Japan published February 2017
August: A CONCISE CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY FOR LOVERS BY XIAOLU GUO Zhuang or "Z" has come to London to study English but finds herself adrift, trapped in a cycle of cultural gaffes and grammatical mishaps. Then she meets an Englishman who changes everything leading her to a world of self discovery. Published February 2007
Sept: THE NIGHT WATCHMAN BY LOUISE ERDRICH based on the life of the author's grandfather who worked as a night watchman & carried the fight against native dispossession from rural North Dakota to Washington DC. Explores themes of love & death with lightness (02.2022
October: AMAZING GRACE ADAMS/FRAN LITTLEWOOD ferocious, funny and tender...a woman walks across London to deliver a birthday cake for her 16 year old daughter reliving the joys and tragedies of the previous decade. Published January 2023
November: THE MITFORD AFFAIR/MARIE BENEDICT. An explosive novel of history's most notorious sisters...one of whom will have to choose a country or her family as the sisters get caught in the crosshairs of WWII. Published January 2023
Dec: THE NIGHT PORTRAIT/LAURA MORELLI an exciting dual time-line historical novel about the creation of one Leonardo de Vinci's most famous paintings, Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine & the woman who fought to save it from Nazi destruction during WWII. (9/2020)