November 16: Starvation Heights by Gregg Olsen [nonfiction]Moscow Library Evening Book Group
Third Monday of each month (except for holidays)
6:30 p.m. at the Library
PLEASE NOTE: The Evening Book Group is scheduled to disband after the December 2009 meeting because a new facilitator has not been found. If you are interested in facilitating this book group, please contact Chris at chriss@latahlibrary.org.
Do you like to talk about books, but don’t know how to find a book club you can join? Then the Moscow Library Book Club is for you! The Book Club is open to anyone who is interested in reading and discussing books.
For more information contact Chris at the Moscow Library, 882-3925 ext. 16, chriss@latahlibrary.org or email Debra at dspidal@gmail.com (use Book Group in the subject line).Moscow Library is located at 110 South Jefferson Street.
November 16: Starvation Heights by Gregg Olsen [nonfiction]
In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, came to a sanatorium in the forests of the Pacific Northwest to undergo the revolutionary "fasting treatment" of Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed to be a holiday for the two sisters. But within a month of arriving at what the locals called Starvation Heights, the women were emaciated shadows of their former selves, waiting for death. They were not the first victims of Linda Hazzard, a quack doctor of extraordinary evil and greed who would stop at nothing short of murder to achieve her ambitions. As their jewelry disappeared and forged bank drafts began transferring their wealth to Hazzard's accounts, Dora Williamson sent a last desperate plea to a friend in Australia, begging her to save them from the brutal treatments and lonely isolation of Starvation Heights. In this true story--a haunting saga of medical murder set in an era of steamships and gaslights--Gregg Olsen reveals one of the most unusual and disturbing criminal cases in American history.--From book jacket
December 21: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer [fiction]
Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11.
An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before.
As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. --BookBrowse.com
Previous titles read by the Book Club:
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond.
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote.
Outwitting History: the Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books, by Aaron Lansky.
The Jane Austen Book Club, by Karen Joy Fowler.
Running with Scissors, by Augusten Burroughs
The Kite Runner, by Khalid Hosseini. (fiction)
Deception Point by Dan Brown
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Wolf Willow by Wallace Stegner
The Magician’s Assistant, by Ann Patchett.
Joy School, by Elizabeth Berg.
The Partner by John Grisham
The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss
Beyond the Sky and the Earth, by Jamie Zeppa
Malinche, by Laura Esquivel
Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
Alchemist's Daughter by Katherine McMahon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See
Riding the Bus with My Sister, by Rachel Simon
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories, by Jhumpa Lahiri
Year of Wonders : A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Rumspringa: To Be Or Not To Be Amish by Tom Schachtman
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Condor’s Shadow: The Loss and Recovery of Wildlife in America by David Samuel Wilcove.
Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins.
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman.
Sister Noon by Karen Joy Fowler.
Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman by Nuala O’Faolain [nonfiction]
Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig [fiction]
Them: A Memoir of Parents by Francine du Plessix Gray [nonfiction]
Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas [fiction]
Nothing to Do But Stay: My Pioneer Mother by Carrie Young. [nonfiction]
Forever by Pete Hamill [fiction]
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz [fiction]