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Group
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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 meeting: Not yet scheduled, will probably be in March 2010.
Future books:
February-March:
Read about the 1918 influenze epidemic:
The Great Influenza: The epic story of the deadliest plague in history
by John Barry
America's Forgotten Pandemic: The influenza of 1918 by Alfred Crosby
Cruel Wind: Pandemic flu in America 1918-1920 by Dorothy Petit
Later: Read about the Mayan predictions for the year 2012 (the end of their calendar system). Potential titles include: The Mystery of 2012: Prediction Prophecies, and Possibilities by Braden et al; Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age by D. Pichbeck.
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 | ||||||||
| Animals in Translation | Temple Grandin | 2009 | ||||||||
| Bayou Farewell | Mark Tidwell | 2006 | ||||||||
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1998-1999 | ||||||||
| Blackberry Winter | Margaret Mead | 1997 | ||||||||
| Cod: A biography of the fish that changed the world | Mark Kurlansky | 2009 | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
| People of the Book | Geraldine Brooks | 2009 | ||||||||
| 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 Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest | M. Wylie Blanchet and Timothy Egan | 2008 | ||||||||
| 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 Great Lakes Water Wars | Peter Annin | 2008 | ||||||||
| 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 Zen of Fish | Trevor Corson | 2009 | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
| The Zookeeper's Wife | Diane Ackerman | 2009 | ||||||||
| Their Eyes were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | 2006 | ||||||||
| They Went Whistling | 2002-2003 | |||||||||
| Thinking in Pictures | Temple Grandin | 2009 | ||||||||
| Three Weeks with My Brother | Nicholas and Micah Sparks | 2009 | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
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