Moscow Library Third Tuesday Book Club
When: 2:00 p.m. on the third Tuesday of each month
Where: Moscow Library
Who may join: Anyone interested in reading!
The Third Tuesday Book Club is especially suited if you prefer meeting during the day. Membership is free.
For more information contact Chris at the Moscow Library, by e-mail or at 882-3925 ext. 16.
Reading schedule:
February 21: The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (fiction) |
March 20: A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute (fiction)
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Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense. It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of a family’s polygamous history is revealed, including how a young woman became a plural wife. Soon after Ann Eliza’s story begins, a second exquisite narrative unfolds– a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah. Jordan Scott, a young man who was thrown out of his fundamentalist sect years earlier, must reenter the world that cast him aside in order to discover the truth behind his father’s death. And as Ann Eliza’s narrative intertwines with that of Jordan’s search, readers are pulled deeper into the mysteries of love and faith.
Nevil Shute’s most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback. Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her.
However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. But it turns out that they have a gift for her as well: the news that the young Australian soldier, Joe Harmon, who had risked his life to help the women, had miraculously survived. Jean’s search for Joe leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals.Previous Titles Read and Ranked by the Book Club:
Molokai by Alan Brennert
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Night by Elie Wiesel
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Snow in the River by Moscow native Carol Ryrie Brink
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Rodriguez
Guernica by Dave Boling
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line by Martha A. Sandweiss
Q & A by Vikas Swarup (also published as Slumdog Millionaire) [fiction]
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald [fiction]
The Women by T.C. Boyle [fiction]
The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss
The Other by David Guterson
The Road From Coorain by Jill Ker Conway [nonfiction]
A Death in Vienna by Frank Tallis [fiction]
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery [fiction]
Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk [nonfiction]
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford [fiction]
The Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks [fiction]
The Help by Kathyrn Stockett [fiction]
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer [nonfiction]
All Roads Lead Me Back To You by Kennedy Foster [fiction]
Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux. [nonfiction]
The Short Bus: a Journey Beyond Normal by Jonathan Mooney. [nonfiction]
The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón; translated by Lucia Graves.
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [fiction]
Travels With My Donkey by Tim Moore
The Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter. [fiction]
Season of Suffering: Coming of Age in Occupied France, 1940-45 by Nicole H. Taflinger. [nonfiction]
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende [fiction]
Beyond the Sky and the Earth: a Journey Into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa. [nonfiction]
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The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett. [fiction]
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. [nonfiction]
A Modern Mephistopheles by Louisa May Alcott [fiction]
Abundance: a novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund. [fiction]
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (nonfiction)
The Fish Can Sing by Halldor Laxness (fiction) 