The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore

NO DECEMBER MEETING

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

7:00 pm

A thrilling novel based on actual events, about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America. New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history—and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. Paul’s client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the light bulb and holds the right to power the country?

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The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood

Tuesday, October 18

7 pm

Ann Hood’s seventh novel is a moving, intricate story about loss, healing, and the value of critical thinking. A year after being left by her husband, Ava is still reeling from the grief of separation, which brought back the pain of losing her sister and mother early in life. In order to branch out and meet new people, Ava joins a book club where each member must choose a book that matters most to them for the group to discuss. Hood’s novel is rich with pleasures, and will no doubt launch a thousand book club discussions.

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EVERYBODY'S FOOL by Richard Russo

Tuesday

October 18, 2016

7:00

Richard Russo, at the very top of his game, returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters he created in Nobody’s Fool. The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is staring down a VA cardiologist’s estimate that he has only a year or two left and it’s hard work trying to keep this news from the most important people in his life.  Everybody’s Fool is filled with humor, heart, hard times and people you can’t help but love, possibly because their various faults make them so stridently human.

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At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier

Tuesday

September 20, 2016

From Tracy Chevalier, bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring, a riveting drama of a pioneer family on the American frontier. 1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck – in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from a local tree man known as John Appleseed so they can cultivate the fifty apple trees required to stake their claim on the property. But the orchard they plant sows the seeds of a long battle. James loves the apples, reminders of an easier life back in Connecticut; while Sadie prefers the applejack they make, an alcoholic refuge from brutal frontier life. Spanning 15 years and a journey from the Black Swamp of northeastern Ohio to California's redwood forests, Chevalier's latest draws readers into the simple highs and the frequent lows of 19th-century pioneer life. 

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The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman

Tuesday

August 16, 2016

7:00

From the New York Times  bestselling author of The Dovekeepers  and The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro—the Father of Impressionism. Hoffman unfolds the intriguing story of Pissarro’s beginnings. She adeptly and beautifully imagines the tempestuous life of the artist’s mother, Rachel Pomié, who defied convention for passion, and how his formative years on the island influenced him personally and professionally.

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This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance by Jonathan Evison

Tuesday

July 19, 2016

7:00

With her husband Bernard two years in the grave, seventy-nine-year-old Harriet Chance sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise only to discover through a series of revelations that she’s been living the past sixty years of her life under entirely false pretenses. Evison has crafted a bighearted novel with a supremely endearing heroine at its center. Through Harriet, he paints a bittersweet portrait of a postmodern everywoman with great warmth, humanity, and humor. 

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Dead Wake by Erik Larson

Tuesday

June 21, 2016

7:00

From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania. Larson delivers a riveting account of one of the most tragic events of WWI. The fact a German U-boat sank the Lusitania off the coast of Ireland in May 1915 is undisputed, so Larson crafts the story as historical suspense by weaving information about the war and the development of submarine technology with an interesting cast of characters. He expertly builds tension up to the final encounter. 

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