Category: Books
Our Learn with Linda program for December will be holiday stories, snacks, crafts and more.
Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts will be discussed by the book club. A review from School Library Journal says: Adult/High School–Focusing mainly on the wives, daughters, sisters, and mothers of the Founding Fathers, this lively and engaging title chronicles the adventures and contributions of numerous women of the era between 1740 and 1797. Roberts includes a surprising amount of original writings, but uses modern language and spellings to enable readers to enjoy fully the wit and wisdom of these remarkable …
Mark your calendars now for the first-ever Friends of the Pember Library Holiday Book Sale. The sale will be held Saturday, December 4, from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM at the Pember Library, 33 West Main St. in Granville. Just in time for holiday shopping, we’ll have a selection of gift-quality books for the book lover on your holiday shopping list. Prices will range from $1.00 to $25.00. There will be over 300 new or nearly new items including fiction, nonfiction, …
We have a display near the front door with all the children’s books we bought with money donated in memory of Genii McRoberts.
The next book club meeting will be in November. We will be reading Saratoga Trunk by Edna Ferber. According to http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk the book is “the basis for the classic film starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Saratoga Trunk unfolds the story of Clio Dulaine, an ambitious Creole beauty who more than meets her match in Clint Maroon, a handsome Texan with a head for business — and an eye for beautiful young women. Together they do battle with Southern gentry …
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace … One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Publisher’s summary: One man’s campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan’s Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day …
Beth Elam has been quilting for over ten years and has her own quilt company, Star Quilts. She became interested in quilting from reading the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Join us on Saturday as Beth shows kids some of the fundamentals of quilting while Pat Oathout reads some stories that follow the theme.
The book club will be discussing Agatha Christie. Read any Christie mystery and come chat about it. Mary Frances suggests you might want to supplement your reading by attending the Dorset Theatre Festival’s production of her Murder on the Nile, July 28-August 15. http://www.dorsettheatrefestival.org/
The book club is reading “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson. Join them for a discussion of the book and find out why this book has become so popular. See this link for a reading group guide.