Pember Library

Sign up for a free book club and every day. We’ll email you a 5-minute portion of a book. We’ll send a different book each week and you can sample two to three chapters.

This wonderful service is brought to us through the generosity of the Friends of the Pember Library.

Somebody by Stefan Kanfer, audio

Management Rewired by Charles S. Jacobs, business

One Vacant Chair by Joe Coomer, fiction

Waiting for Daybreak by Kathryn Cushman, Good news

Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear, mystery

Waking Up in Eden, Lucnda Fleeson, nonfiction

To Be Announced, prepub

Summer By The Sea by Susan Wiggs, romance

The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds, science fiction

The Darkness Under the Water by Beth Kanell, teen

Pressure by Jeff Strand, thriller

Sign up for a free book club and every day We’ll email you a 5-minute portion of a book. We’ll send a different book each week and you can sample two to three chapters.

This wonderful service is brought to us through the generosity of the Friends of the Pember Library.

The Goliath Bone by Mickey Spillane, audio
Stop Self-Sabotage by Pat Pearson, business
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen, fiction
A Lady of Secret Devotion by Tracie Peterson, Good news
The Goliath Bone by Mickey Spillane with Max Allan Collins, mystery
The Genius of Instinct by Dr. Hendrie Weisinger, nonfiction
To Be Announced , prepub
Beneath Bone Lake by Colleen Thompson, romance
Galaxy Blues by Allen Steele, science fiction
Franny Parker by Hannah Roberts McKinnon, teen
Aphrodisiac by Allyson Roy, thriller

The book club will be discussing “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak.

“Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel–a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.”

I have been reading with the DearReader online book club for several years. Recently, the Friends of the Library agreed to sponsor the club through the Pember Library website / blog. I just finished reading the nonfiction selection for the week, Write it when I’m gone : remarkable off-the-record conversations with Gerald R. Ford by Thomas M. DeFrank. Over five days, I was able to read the first 19 pages of the book and get a feel for whether or not I would like to finish it.

Ford is interesting because of his unique position as the only unelected president of the United States. I realize that even though I lived through those years, I didn’t really understand what was happening. I was a teenager, after all, and there were certainly more interesting things in the world than politics!  I would like to read more of this book and perhaps gain some insights into that period of our history.

I definitely want to hear other people’s opinions of the books they might have read through DearReader this week. Reply to this post or send me an email.

The books that will be featured next week are :

Man vs. Weather by Dennis Diclaudio, nonfiction
Washington’s Lady by Nancy Moser, good news
Dead is a State of Mind by Marlene Perez, teen
Roastbeef’s Promise by David Jerome, fiction
Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office by Russ Edelman, Tim Hiltabiddle & Charles Manz, business
Captain Wentworth’s Diary by Amanda Grange, romance
Murder on Bank Street by Victoria Thompson, mystery

To join, click on the “Online Book Clubs, Click Here” icon to the left, put in your email address, and choose which club(s) you would like to get in your email.  Thanks to the Friends of the Library for sponsoring this wonderful service for our readers out there!

The Book Club will be reading The colossus of New York : a city in thirteen parts by Colson Whitehead.

“The Colossus of New York captures the city’s inner and outer landscapes in a series of vignettes, meditations, and personal memories. Colson Whitehead conveys with almost uncanny immediacy the feelings and thoughts of longtime residents and of newcomers who dream of making it their home; of those who have conquered its challenges; and of those who struggle against it cruelties.” “Whitehead’s style is as multilayered and multifarious as New York itself: Switching from third person, to first person, to second person, he weaves individual voices into a jazzy musical composition that perfectly reflects the way we experience the city. There is a funny, knowing riff on what it feels like to arrive in New York for the first time; a lyrical meditation on how the city is transformed by an unexpected rain shower; and a wry look at the ferocious battle that is commuting. The plaintive notes of the lonely and dispossessed resound in one passage, while another captures those magical moments when the city seems to be talking directly to you, inviting you to become one with its rhythms.” “The Colossus of New York is a portrait of life in the big city. Ambitious in scope, gemlike in its details, it is at once an paralleled tribute to New York and the ideal introduction to one of the most exciting writers working today.”–BOOK JACKET.