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Join us for companionship and discussion of interesting books. It is not necessary to have read the current book to attend book group discussions.
Current book: November 12, 5:30 pm: AWIS Book Group will meet at the China Inn in Superior to discuss the book, The Great Lakes Water Wars by Peter Annin. Please join us even if you haven't read the book. Several of us heard Mr. Annin speak at UMD on this topic in September.
Book description: The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this globally significant resource.
Future books:
A suggested theme is MONEY. Book suggestions include: Women and Money by Suze Orman, The Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss, or Freakanomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.
Previous books: for the theme of Afganistan, and the book suggestions were: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad, or Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriquez.
List of previous book selections:
| Title | Author | Year read | ||||||||
| A bed of red flowers: In search of my Afghanistan | Nelofer Pazira | 2005 | ||||||||
| A Brief History of Time | Steven Hawkins | 1997 | ||||||||
| A mile in her boots: Women who work in the wild | Jennifer Bove | 2007 | ||||||||
| A Natural History of the Senses | Diane Ackerman | 1997 | ||||||||
| A Solitaire Mystery | Joestein Gaarder | 1998-1999 | ||||||||
| A Walk in the Woods | Bill Bryson | 2002-2003 | ||||||||
| A Year Without Made-in-China | Sara Bongiorni | 2008 | ||||||||
| An Unquiet Mind | Kay Redfield Jamison | 2007 | ||||||||
| And The Waters Turned to Blood | Rodney Barker | 1998-1999 | ||||||||
| Bayou Farewell | Mark Tidwell | 2006 | ||||||||
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1998-1999 | ||||||||
| Blackberry Winter | Margaret Mead | 1997 | ||||||||
| Composing a Life | Mary Cathrine Bateson | < 1997 | ||||||||
| Darwin on Trial | Philip E. Johnson | 1997 | ||||||||
| Deep Ocean Journey | Cindy Lee Van Dover | 2000-2001 | ||||||||
| Deep Water Passages | Ann Linnea | < 1997 | ||||||||
| Down the Wild River North | Constance Helmericks | < 1997 | ||||||||
| Einstein's Wife | Andrea Gabor | 1997 | ||||||||
| Encounters with the Archdruids | John McPhee | 1999-2000 | ||||||||
| Failure is Impossible | Lynn Sherr | < 1997 | ||||||||
| Field Notes from a Catastrophe | Elizabeth Kolbert | 2007 | ||||||||
| Galileo’s Daughter | Dava Sobel | 2001-2002 | ||||||||
| Gunflint: Reflections on the Trail | Justine Kerfoot | < 1997 | ||||||||
| Having Our Say | Sarah & A. Elizabeth Delany | < 1997 | ||||||||
| Isaac's Storm: A man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history | Erik Larson | 2006 | ||||||||
| Last Child in the Woods | Richard Louv | 2006 | ||||||||
| Leaving Mother Lake | Yang Ereche Namu and Christine Mathieu | 2005 | ||||||||
| Living a Country Year | Sue Hubbell | < 1997 | ||||||||
| Man's Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | < 1997 | ||||||||
| Mayada: Daughter of Iraq; one woman's survival under Saddam Hussein | Jean Sasson | 2005 | ||||||||
| Me Talk Pretty One Day | David Sedaris | 2001-2002 | ||||||||
| Menopause and the Mind | Clair Warga | 1999-2000 | ||||||||
| Mother Nature | Sarah Andrews | 1999-2000 | ||||||||
| Music of the Earth. | Ron Morton | < 1997 | ||||||||
| My Sister's Keeper | Jody Piccoult | 2006 | ||||||||
| Naked in Baghdad: The Iraqi war as seen by NPR's correspondent Anne Garrels | Anne Garrels | 2004 | ||||||||
| Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder | Bert Hoff | 1998-1999 | ||||||||
| Nickel and dimed: On (not) getting by in America | Barbara Ehrenreich | 2005 | ||||||||
| Now You See Her | Whitney Otto | < 1997 | ||||||||
| Oh Pioneers | Willa Cather | 2003-2004 | ||||||||
| Our Stolen Futures | J.P. Meyer, T. Colborn, & D. Dumanoski | 1998-1999 | ||||||||
| Peace Like a River | Leif Enger | 2002-2003 | ||||||||
| Perfume | Patrick Suskind | < 1997 | ||||||||
| Prodigal Summer | Barbara Kingsolver | 2001-2002 | ||||||||
| Reading Lolita in Tehran: A memoir in books | Azar Nafisi | 2005 | ||||||||
| Reason for Hope | Jane Goodall | 2000-2001 | ||||||||
| Sand County Almanac | Aldo Leopold | < 1997 | ||||||||
| Sex on the Brain: Biological Difference Between Men & Women | Deborah Blum | 1997 | ||||||||
| Snow Falling on Cedars | David Guterson | 1999-2000 | ||||||||
| Something in the Water | Mike Arage | 1998-1999 | ||||||||
| Storm of the Century | Willie Drye | 2006 | ||||||||
| Tales of a Female Nomad | Golden Gelman | 2003-2004 | ||||||||
| Teaching a Stone to Talk | Annie Dillard | < 1997 | ||||||||
| Tender at the Bone | Ruth Reichl | 1998-1999 | ||||||||
| The Addictive Organization | Anne Wilson Schaef & Diane Fassek | < 1997 | ||||||||
| The Botany of Desire | Michael Pollan | 2002-2003 | ||||||||
| The Curious Naturalist | Sy Montogmery | 2003-2004 | ||||||||
| The Earth Around Us: Maintaining a Livable Planet | Jill Schneiderman | 2000-2001 | ||||||||
| The Glass Castle | Jennette Walls | 2007 | ||||||||
| The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck | 2005 | ||||||||
| The Hungry Ocean | Linda Greenlaw | 2000-2001 | ||||||||
| The Lobster Chronicles | Linda Greenlaw | 2006 | ||||||||
| The Lovely Bones | Alice Seibold | 2003-2004 | ||||||||
| The Moon by Whale Light | Diane Ackerman | 1998 | ||||||||
| The Number One Ladies Dectective Agency | Andrew McCall Smith | 2003-2004 | ||||||||
| The Omnivore's Dilemma | Michael Pollan | 2007 | ||||||||
| The Perfect Storm | Sebastian Junger | 1997 | ||||||||
| The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | 2000-2001 | ||||||||
| The Red Tent | Anita Diamant | 2002-2003 | ||||||||
| The Road to Corran | Jill Ker Conway | < 1997 | ||||||||
| The Science of God | Gerald Schroeder | 2001-2002 | ||||||||
| The Secret Life of Lobsters | Trevor Corson | 2006 | ||||||||
| The Stone Diaries | Carol Shields | < 1997 | ||||||||
| The Temple of My Familiar | Alice Walker | 1999-2000 | ||||||||
| The Walmart Effect | Charles Fischeman | 2008 | ||||||||
| The War Against the Beavers | Verena Andermatt Conley | 2004 | ||||||||
| The Weathermakers | Tim Flannery | 2007 | ||||||||
| The World Without Us | Alan Weisman | 2008 | ||||||||
| Their Eyes were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | 2006 | ||||||||
| They Went Whistling | 2002-2003 | |||||||||
| Throwim Way Leg | Tim Flannery | 1998-1999 | ||||||||
| True North | Jell Ker Conway | < 1997 | ||||||||
| Uneasy Cariers & Intimate Lives | Abir-am & Outram | < 1997 | ||||||||
| White Silk & Black Tar | Page Spencer | < 1997 | ||||||||
| Women of the Four Winds | Elizabeth Fagg Olds | < 1997 | ||||||||
| You Just Don't Understand | Debra Tannen | < 1997 | ||||||||