April 2016:
Book: "A Fall of Marigolds" by Susan Meissner
Date: Thursday, April 14
Time: 8:00 p.m.
March 2016:
Book: "The Goose Girl" by Shannon Hale
Date: Thursday, March 10
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Jenny Richins' Home
February 2016:
Book: Gospel Discussion RE: The Family Proclamation
Date: Thursday, February 11
Time: 8:00 p.m.
January 2016:
Book: "The Runaway Princess" by Christina Dodd
Date: Thursday, January 14
Time: 8:00 p.m.
November 2015:
Book: "The Forgotten Garden" by Kate Morgan
Date: Tuesday, November 10
Time: 8:00 p.m.
A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book—a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own.
On her twenty-first birthday, they tell her the truth, and with her sense of self shattered and very little to go on, "Nell" sets out to trace her real identity. Her quest leads her to Blackhurst Manor on the Cornish coast and the secrets of the doomed Mountrachet family. But it is not until her granddaughter, Cassandra, takes up the search after Nell’s death that all the pieces of the puzzle are assembled. A spellbinding tale of mystery and self-discovery, The Forgotten Garden will take hold of your imagination and never let go.
October 2015:
Book: "Calling Me Home" by Julie Kibler
Date: Tuesday, October 13
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Patti Holt's home
September 2015:
Book: "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
Date: Tuesday, September 8
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Diane Vorderstrasse's home
"Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?" ad attracts dozens for mind-bending tests readers may try. Only two boys and two girls succeed for a secret mission, undercover and underground into hidden tunnels. At the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, the only rule is - there are no rules.
August 2015:
May 2015:
Free on the Kindle!
April 2015:
March 2015:
Book: "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech
Date: March 10
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Deborah R's Home
Summary (from amazon.com):
In her own singularly beautiful style, Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion. Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle, proud of her country roots and the "Indian-ness in her blood," travels from Ohio to Idaho with her eccentric grandparents. Along the way, she tells them of the story of Phoebe Winterbottom, who received mysterious messages, who met a "potential lunatic," and whose mother disappeared. As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe's outrageous story, her own story begins to unfold--the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother.
February 2015:
Book: "Blackmoore" by Julianne Donaldson
Date: February 10
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Crystal S's Home
January 2015:
Book: "A Fall of Marigolds" by Susan Meissner
Date: Thursday, April 14
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Lauren Asay's Home
A brief summary of "A Fall of Marigolds":
A beautiful
scarf, passed down through the generations, connects two women who learn that
the weight of the world is made bearable by the love we give away....
September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Then, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose own loss mirrors hers, she becomes intrigued by a name embroidered onto the scarf he carries …and finds herself caught in a dilemma that compels her to confront the truth about the assumptions she’s made. Will what she learns devastate her or free her?
September 2011. On Manhattan’s Upper West Side, widow Taryn Michaels has convinced herself that she is living fully, working in a charming specialty fabric store and raising her daughter alone. Then a long-lost photograph appears in a national magazine, and she is forced to relive the terrible day her husband died in the collapse of the World Trade Towers …the same day a stranger reached out and saved her. Will a chance reconnection and a century-old scarf open Taryn’s eyes to the larger forces at work in her life?
September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Then, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose own loss mirrors hers, she becomes intrigued by a name embroidered onto the scarf he carries …and finds herself caught in a dilemma that compels her to confront the truth about the assumptions she’s made. Will what she learns devastate her or free her?
September 2011. On Manhattan’s Upper West Side, widow Taryn Michaels has convinced herself that she is living fully, working in a charming specialty fabric store and raising her daughter alone. Then a long-lost photograph appears in a national magazine, and she is forced to relive the terrible day her husband died in the collapse of the World Trade Towers …the same day a stranger reached out and saved her. Will a chance reconnection and a century-old scarf open Taryn’s eyes to the larger forces at work in her life?
March 2016:
Book: "The Goose Girl" by Shannon Hale
Date: Thursday, March 10
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Jenny Richins' Home
February 2016:
Book: Gospel Discussion RE: The Family Proclamation
Date: Thursday, February 11
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Diane Vorderstrasse's home
We will be discussing the following two articles:
Please come ready to discuss and have a good time! Plus, there is a rumor that Diane is going to make a super awesome treat for everyone who comes! You will not want to miss out!
January 2016:
Book: "The Runaway Princess" by Christina Dodd
Date: Thursday, January 14
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Kate Homer's home
November 2015:
Book: "The Forgotten Garden" by Kate Morgan
Date: Tuesday, November 10
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Cherie Rhodes's home
From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The House at Riverton,
a novel that takes the reader on an unforgettable journey through
generations and across continents as two women try to uncover their
family’s secret past.
A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book—a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own.
On her twenty-first birthday, they tell her the truth, and with her sense of self shattered and very little to go on, "Nell" sets out to trace her real identity. Her quest leads her to Blackhurst Manor on the Cornish coast and the secrets of the doomed Mountrachet family. But it is not until her granddaughter, Cassandra, takes up the search after Nell’s death that all the pieces of the puzzle are assembled. A spellbinding tale of mystery and self-discovery, The Forgotten Garden will take hold of your imagination and never let go.
October 2015:
Book: "Calling Me Home" by Julie Kibler
Date: Tuesday, October 13
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Patti Holt's home
Calling
Me Home by Julie Kibler is a soaring debut
interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s
Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship
Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis. It's a big one. Isabelle wants Dorrie, a black single mom in her thirties, to drop everything to drive her from her home in Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati. With no clear explanation why. Tomorrow.
Dorrie, fleeing problems of her own and curious whether she can unlock the secrets of Isabelle's guarded past, scarcely hesitates before agreeing, not knowing it will be a journey that changes both their lives.
Over the years, Dorrie and Isabelle have developed more than just a business relationship. They are friends. But Dorrie, fretting over the new man in her life and her teenage son’s irresponsible choices, still wonders why Isabelle chose her.
Isabelle confesses that, as a willful teen in 1930s Kentucky, she fell deeply in love with Robert Prewitt, a would-be doctor and the black son of her family's housekeeper—in a town where blacks weren’t allowed after dark. The tale of their forbidden relationship and its tragic consequences makes it clear Dorrie and Isabelle are headed for a gathering of the utmost importance and that the history of Isabelle's first and greatest love just might help Dorrie find her own way.
Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis. It's a big one. Isabelle wants Dorrie, a black single mom in her thirties, to drop everything to drive her from her home in Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati. With no clear explanation why. Tomorrow.
Dorrie, fleeing problems of her own and curious whether she can unlock the secrets of Isabelle's guarded past, scarcely hesitates before agreeing, not knowing it will be a journey that changes both their lives.
Over the years, Dorrie and Isabelle have developed more than just a business relationship. They are friends. But Dorrie, fretting over the new man in her life and her teenage son’s irresponsible choices, still wonders why Isabelle chose her.
Isabelle confesses that, as a willful teen in 1930s Kentucky, she fell deeply in love with Robert Prewitt, a would-be doctor and the black son of her family's housekeeper—in a town where blacks weren’t allowed after dark. The tale of their forbidden relationship and its tragic consequences makes it clear Dorrie and Isabelle are headed for a gathering of the utmost importance and that the history of Isabelle's first and greatest love just might help Dorrie find her own way.
September 2015:
Book: "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
Date: Tuesday, September 8
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Diane Vorderstrasse's home
"Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?" ad attracts dozens for mind-bending tests readers may try. Only two boys and two girls succeed for a secret mission, undercover and underground into hidden tunnels. At the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, the only rule is - there are no rules.
August 2015:
Book: "Standing for Something" by President Gordon B. Hinckley
Date: Tuesday, August 11
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Kate Homer's Home
Date: Tuesday, August 11
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Kate Homer's Home
Book: "Mansfield Park" by Jane Austen
Date: May 12
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Jenny Brown's Home
Date: May 12
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Jenny Brown's Home
Free on the Kindle!
April 2015:
Book: "45 Pounds" by K. A. Barson
Date: April 14
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Kate H's Home
Date: April 14
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Kate H's Home
Summary per Kate H:
Here are the numbers of Ann Galardi’s life:
She is 16.
And a size 17.
Her perfect mother is a size 6.
Her Aunt Jackie is getting married in 8 weeks, and wants Ann to be her bridesmaid.
So Ann makes up her mind: Time to lose 45 pounds (more or less) in two
months.
Welcome to the world of informercial diet plans, terrifying wedding dance lessons, endless run-ins with the cutest guy Ann’s ever seen—and some surprises about her NOT-so-perfect mother.
And there’s one more thing. It’s all about feeling comfortable in your own skin -- no matter how you add it up!
She is 16.
And a size 17.
Her perfect mother is a size 6.
Her Aunt Jackie is getting married in 8 weeks, and wants Ann to be her bridesmaid.
So Ann makes up her mind: Time to lose 45 pounds (more or less) in two
months.
Welcome to the world of informercial diet plans, terrifying wedding dance lessons, endless run-ins with the cutest guy Ann’s ever seen—and some surprises about her NOT-so-perfect mother.
And there’s one more thing. It’s all about feeling comfortable in your own skin -- no matter how you add it up!
March 2015:
Book: "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech
Date: March 10
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Deborah R's Home
Summary (from amazon.com):
In her own singularly beautiful style, Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion. Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle, proud of her country roots and the "Indian-ness in her blood," travels from Ohio to Idaho with her eccentric grandparents. Along the way, she tells them of the story of Phoebe Winterbottom, who received mysterious messages, who met a "potential lunatic," and whose mother disappeared. As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe's outrageous story, her own story begins to unfold--the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother.
February 2015:
Book: "Blackmoore" by Julianne Donaldson
Date: February 10
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Crystal S's Home
We read Edenbrooke by Donaldson a
year or two ago if you remember. This book is at the library in print and digital.
Summary (from amazon.com): Kate Worthington knows her heart and she knows she will never marry. Her plan is to travel to India instead if only to find peace for her restless spirit and to escape the family she abhors. But Kate s meddlesome mother has other plans. She makes a bargain with Kate: India, yes, but only after Kate has secured and rejected three marriage proposals. Kate journeys to the stately manor of Blackmoore determined to fulfill her end of the bargain sooner rather than later and enlists the help of her dearest childhood friend, Henry Delafield. But when it comes to matters of love, bargains are meaningless and plans are changeable. There on the wild lands of Blackmoore, Kate must face the truth that has kept her heart captive. Will the proposal she is determined to reject actually be the one thing that will set her heart free?
January 2015:
Book: "Austenland" by Shannon Hale
Date: January 13
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Place: Kate H's Home
Summary (from amazon.com): Jane is a young New York woman who can never seem to find the right man-perhaps because of her secret obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Predjudice. When a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-obsessed women, however, Jane's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have imagined. Is this total immersion in a fake Austenland enough to make Jane kick the Austen obsession for good, or could all her dreams actually culminate in a Mr. Darcy of her own?
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