TFPL Book Club

The TFPL Book Club is free and open to the public.

SECOND TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH

5:30 PM

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Here is our schedule for Winter 2017:

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January 10 – Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal

• A young girl navigates a tumultuous childhood to become one of the top chefs in the country, in a story as seen through the eyes of her father, her boyfriend, a rival, a cousin, and more. Share your comments here.

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February 7 – Silver Like Dust by Kimi Cunningham Grant

• Relates how the author rejected her Japanese heritage until learning the details of her grandmother’s time in a Japanese internment camp along with 112,000 other Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
  NOTE: We’re meeting a week early in February to avoid the conflict with Valentine’s Day.

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March 14 – Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

• Vividly depicts the colorful, sometimes disreputable, inhabitants of a run-down area in Monterey, California.

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April 11 – Wife of the Gods – Kwei Quartey

• Investigating the murder of an AIDS worker in an African community from which his mother went missing years earlier, Detective Inspector Darko Dawson collects details about the killing and realizes that he is close to solving the truth about his mother’sdisappearance.

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Previous Book Club Choices

Previous Book Club Choices in PDF format: 2007-2009, 2010-2011

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Please contact Amy, Jennifer. or Jessica at 733-2964 ext 200 for more information.

(All annotations are courtesy of NoveList Plus,  part of the TFPL Databases.)