FEBRUARY BOOK GROUPS  

The Morning Book Group will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James translation of the Bible by reading some selections as literature. 

 

Thursday, February 16th at 10am.

We will discuss Genesis ch. 1-3; Exodus ch. 20; Psalms 22, 23, 24, 25; Isaiah ch. 53:1; Corinthians ch. 13 and the Gospel of Luke.

All book lovers welcome!

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The Evening Book Group will be reading
"True Grit" by Charles Portis  

 

Mattie Ross is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.

 

 

Previous Morning Group Books

2007 

HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG. Andre Dubus III
MAN AND BOY. Tony Parson
A LESSON BEFORE DYING. Ernest J. Gaines 

AMERICAN PASTORAL. Philip Roth 

THE SHADOW OF THE WIND. Carlos Ruiz Zafon 

PIGS IN HEAVEN. Barbara Kingsolver 

FOR ONE MORE DAY. Mitch Albom 

THE RED TENT. Anita Diamant 

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME. Mark Haddon 

WILD SEASON. Allan Eckert

 

2008 

THE POISONWOOD BIBLE. Barbara Kingsolver 

TWO OLD WOMEN: AN ALASKA LEGEND OF BETRAYAL, COURAGE, AND SURVIVAL. Velma Wallis 

POPE JOAN. Donna Woolfolk Cross 

THREE CUPS OF TEA: ONE MAN'S MISSION TO PROMOTE PEACE…ONE SCHOOL AT A TIME. Greg Mortenson 

MONTANA 1948. Larry Watson 

A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS. Khaled Hosseini 

ASSASSINATION VACATION. Sarah Vowell 

THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER.  

     Kim Edwards 

THE GREAT GATSBY. F. Scott Fitzgerald 

SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS. David Guterson 

CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY. Alan Paton 

2009 

MY SISTER'S KEEPER. Jodi Picoult 

LIKE WATER FOR ELEPHANTS. Sara Gruen 

THE GOOD EARTH. Pearl S. Buck 

BROKEN FOR YOU. Stephanie Kallos 

THE TIPPING POINT. Malcolm Gladwell 

THE ABSTINENCE TEACHER. Tom Perrotta 

EXCELLENT WOMEN. Barbara Pym 

MANY LIVES, MANY MASTERS. Brian L. Weiss 

THE PERSIAN PICKLE CLUB. Sandra Dallas 

FRANKENSTEIN. Mary Shelley 

LIFE OF PI. Yann Martel 

THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY. 

     Jean-Dominique Bauby 

 

2010 

ISHMAEL. Daniel Quinn 

MARCH. Geraldine Brooks 

THE WORST HARD TIME. Timothy Egan 

THE SHACK. William Paul Young 

DRIFTLESS   . David Rhodes 

THE MERMAID CHAIR. Sue Monk Kidd 

THE BOOK THIEF. Markus Zusak 

THIS WATER GOES NORTH.  

     Dennis Weidemann 

THINGS FALL APART. Chinua Achebe 

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Edmund S. Morgan 

THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG. 

     Muriel Barbery
 

2011 

GOD: A BIOGRAPHY. Jack Miles
ROCK ISLAND LINE. DAVID RHODES
THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT by OLIVER SACKS
TWENTY CHICKENS FOR A SADDLE by ROBYN SCOTT
CANNERY ROW by JOHN STEINBECK
HOTEL at the CORNER of BITTER and SWEET
by JAMIE FORD. 
THE ALCHEMIST by PAULO COELHO
UNBROKEN by LAURA HILLENBRAND

Previous Evening Group Books

2005

 PEACE LIKE A RIVER. Leif Enger
POPULATION 485: MEETING YOUR NEIGHBORS ONE SIREN AT A TIME. Michael Perry
BEL CANTO.  Ann Patchett
THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY: MURDER, MAGIC, AND MADNESS AT THE FAIR THAT CHANGED AMERICA. Erik Larson
THE SPIRIT CATCHES YOU AND YOU FALL DOWN: A HMONG CHILD, HER AMERICAN DOCTORS, AND THE COLLISION OF TWO CULTURES. Anne Fadiman
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING. Tracy Chevalier
NICKEL AND DIMED: ON (NOT) GETTING BY IN AMERICA. Barbara Ehrenreich
DON'T LET'S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT: AN AFRICAN CHILDHOOD. Alexandra Fuller 

2006

THE CHILDREN'S BLIZZARD. David Laskin
A WALK IN THE WOODS: REDISCOVERING AMERICA ON THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL. Bill Bryson
INHERITORS OF THE SPIRIT: MARY WHITE OVINGTON AND THE FOUNDING OF THE NAACP. Carolyn Wedin
BLACK AND WHITE SAT DOWN TOGETHER: THE REMINISCENCES OF AN NAACP FOUNDER. Mary White Ovington
YEAR OF WONDERS: A NOVEL OF THE PLAGUE. Geraldine Brooks
THE KITE RUNNER. Khaled Hosseini
IN THE LAKE OF THE WOODS. Tim O'Brien
GILEAD. Marilynne Robinson
ONCE UPON A TOWN: THE MIRACLE OF THE NORTH PLATTE CANTEEN. Bob Greene
INTO THE FOREST.   Jean Hegland
MY ANTONIA. Willa Cather
A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES. Dylan Thomas
A CHRISTMAS MEMORY.    Truman Capote 

2007 

THAT OLD ACE IN THE HOLE. Annie Proulx
THE GLASS CASTLE. Jeannette Walls 

ALL THE PRETTY HORSES. Cormac McCarthy 

A PATCHWORK PLANET.    Anne Tyler 

THREE CUPS OF TEA: ONE MAN’S MISSION TO FIGHT TERRORISM AND BUILDING NATIONS…ONE SCHOOL AT A TIME. Greg Mortenson 

EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED. Jonathan Safran Foer 

THE SWEET HEREAFTER. Russell Banks 

WISH YOU WELL. David Baldacci 

A THOUSAND ACRES. Jane Smiley 

DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP. Willa Cather 

ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTIN'. Rick Bragg 

A PLACE ON EARTH.           Wendell Berry 

2008 

COLORED PEOPLE: A MEMOIR. Henry Lewis Gates, Jr. 

WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST. Gregory Maguire 

THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR. John Nichols 

LITTLE HEATHENS: HARD TIMES AND HIGH SPIRITS ON AN IOWA FARM DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION. Mildred Armstrong Kalish 

ATONEMENT. Ian McEwan 

ONE THOUSAND WHITE WOMEN: THE JOURNALS OF MAY DODD. Jim Fergus 

THE GREAT GATSBY F. Scott Fitzgerald 

MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS: THE QUEST OF DR. PAUL FARMER, A MAN WHO WOULD CURE THE WORLD. Tracy Kidder 

OUT STEALING HORSES. Per Petterson 

A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Charles Dickens 

2009
 

FAHRENHEIT 451. Ray Bradbury 

BLINDNESS. Jose Saramago 

GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN. James Baldwin 

THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO. Junot Diaz 

THE TENDERNESS OF WOLVES. Stef Penney 

OLIVE KITTERIDGE. Elizabeth Strout 

THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY. Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows 

DRIFTLESS. David Rhodes 

SILENT NIGHT: THE STORY OF THE WORLD WAR I CHRISTMAS TRUCE. Stanley Weintraub
 

2010
 

BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MUSEUM. Kate Atkinson 

THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY. Thornton Wilder 

BOLD SPIRIT: HELGA ESTBY’S FORGOTTEN WALK ACROSS VICTORIAN AMERICA. Linda Lawrence Hunt 

I HEAR VOICES: A MEMOIR OF LOVE, DEATH, AND THE RADIO. Jean Feraca 

A SHORT HISTORY OF WOMEN. Kate Walbert 

SMALL ISLAND. Andrea Levy 

A GATE AT THE STAIRS. Lorrie Moore 

DOG ON IT: A CHET AND BERNIE MYSTERY. Spencer Quinn 

THE OUTLANDER. Gil Adamson 

THE WHISTLING SEASON. Ivan Doig 

2011
 

NEVER LET ME GO. Kazuo Ishiguro
EAARTH: MAKING A LIFE ON A TOUGH NEW PLANET. Bill McKibben
LITTLE BEE by CHRIS CLEAVE
ROCK ISLAND LINE by DAVID RHODES
THE SHADOW OF THE WIND by CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON 

DRAWING IN THE DUST BY ZOE KLEIN
CASE HISTORIES by KATE ATKINSON
ENRIQUE'S JOURNEY by SONIA NAZARIO
THE WOLF AT TWILIGHT by KEN NERBURN
THE MANY LIVES AND SECRET SORROWS OF JOSEPHINE B. by SANDRA GULLAND
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by JAMES JOYCE
SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION by KEN KESEY