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Books that will Keep you Reading: Brown Bag Lunch Book Group
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Bring your lunch and join a new afternoon book discussion group at the library. We'll start off with some popular titles published in the last few years and then try to incorporate some of your choices.
Please register in advance by email to mgreenblatt@wlsmail.org or call Melinda Greenblatt at 941-7072, ext. 6. Books will be available for loan at the library one month in advance for the first session and then at the meetings for future sessions.
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Tuesday, January 10, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett -- Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different countries and continents become compatriots. (From the Westchester Library System catalog description.)
Tuesday, February 14, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards -- On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the infant. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this beautifully told story that unfolds over a quarter of a century in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by David Henry's fateful decision that long-ago winter night. (From the book jacket)
Tuesday, March 13, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Little Bee by Chris Cleave -- When Little Bee escapes from an immigration center in England, she searches for the only English people that she knows. Having met Andrew and Sarah on a horror-filled day near her Nigerian village, she finds them, only to realize that their lives have also been immeasurably changed by their shared experience. At times funny, at times wrenching, this is a novel that reveals the connections in our global world and our humanity.
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