Below are the books for the 2010 Ridgeway Reads Book Club reading list for the next few months. There are two books per month - you can choose which to read or read both if you like! We will discuss both books at the monthly meetings.
We will be meeting on the last Saturday of each month at 10:30 am at JavaNookBooks. If you cannot attend, you can conference in by phone. Call (803) 337-3442 or email dawn@javanookbooks.com prior to the meeting for the phone number and passcode.
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------------------------------------------------------------------ February Selections: Saturday February 27, 2010 at 10:30 am --------------------- Love, Loss and What I Wore Ilene Beckerman (Paperback - Apr 8, 2005) This is an unusual journey through history and life. Click here for the reading guide Forbidden Island: An Island Called Sapelo Tom Poland (Paperback - Mar 7, 2007) A great adventure thriller from a popular local writer. Click here for the reading guide **Author Tom Poland was here for this discussion!**
------------------------------------------------------------------ March Selections: Saturday March 27, 2010 at 10:30 am --------------------- Water for Elephants Sara Gruen (Paperback - Apr 9, 2007) A novel of the depression and hope among misfits. Click here for the reading guide The Help Kathryn Stockett (Hardcover - Feb 10, 2009) A novel of Southern society and their ‘help’. Click here for the reading guide
------------------------------------------------------------------ April Selections: Saturday April 24, 2010 at 10:30
am
--------------------- The Ocean Inside
Janna McMahan (Paperback - Apr 1, 2009) Pawley's Island, a child with cancer, money and society in a heartbreaking
story of hope and survival. (Columbia author)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson (Paperback - Jun 23, 2009) A mystery of familial corruption and dirty secrets set in Sweden. The first
of a trilogy by the late Stieg Larsson.
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May Selections: Saturday May 22, 2010 at 10:30 am (meeting a week early due to holiday schedules)
--------------------- From My Front Porch
Leigh McKnight (Paperback - August 2008) A poignant tale of love, infidelity and second chances in a small South
Carolina town. Sequel - Sinners Never Sleep Click here for the reading guide
Case Histories: A Novel
Kate Atkinson (Mass Market Paperback - Sep 1, 2008) An English mystery of three cold cases with strange coincidences, and a
story where the survivors' stories are more telling than the victims.
----------------------------- June Selection: Saturday June 26, 10:30 am The Bone People Keri Hulme (Hardcover - Mar 2005) A novel of pain and
healing among three unlikely characters with the backdrop of the Maori culture
of New Zealand.
Click here for the reading guide ----------------------------- July Selections: Saturday July 31, 10:30 am Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten City Greg Grandin This is the story of Henry Ford’s attempt to build an all-American city
in the jungles of the Brazilian Amazon.
Click here for the reading guide Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann A man walks on a cable 110 stories above New York City, and you discover
how his life and the lives of ten other people overlap and occasionally
converge in this novel. -----------------------------
August Selections: Saturday August 28, 10:30 am The Postmistress Sarah Blake Alternating between an America still cocooned in its inability to grasp
the danger at hand and a Europe being torn apart by war, The Postmistress gives us tow women who find themselves unable to
deliver the news, and a third woman desperately waiting for news yet afraid to
hear it.
The Wind in the Woods Rose Senehi Re-kindled love, a relentless stalker, an overprotected boy – woven into
a compelling tale of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Rose Senehi will be here to
answer questions about her work.
----------------------------- September Selections: Saturday September 25, 10:30 am Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes, and the Greatest Race the World
Has Never Seen Christopher McDougall Explore the running
secrets of the reclusive Trahumara Indians that allow them to run great
distances without rest. No Good Like It Is McKendree R. Long, III An epic tale of the adventures and misadventures of two soldiers who rode
with Terry’s Texas Rangers during and after the American Civil War. Mike
Long will be here to answer questions about this work.October Selections: Saturday
----------------------------- October 30, 10:30 amBetrayed Sam Morton (Young-Adult) Fifteen-year-old
Austin Pierce finds himself in a dilemma when the Senator who is a client of
his father’s political consultant business has made a campaign promise to stop
illegal immigration and Austin’s best friend happens to be in the US illegally. Sam
Morton will be here to answer questions . The Guernsey Literary and Potato
Peel SocietyMary
Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Through letters you find quirky, loveable characters and the tragic
stories of life under Nazi occupation.
----------------------------- November Selections: Saturday November 20, 10:30 am
The Baron of Clayhill John W. Huffman Set in 1967 East Texas, Paul Henry decides to find out more about his
father, who supposedly committed suicide on the day Paul was born. Paul’s journeys take him to a strange land
where he finds happiness, horror, love, hate and the force of capricious
fate. John Huffman will be here to answer questions about his works.
Santa Clawed Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, former postmistress of Crozet, Va.,
her husband and their animal friends are dismayed to stumble on a murdered monk.
Figuring out whodunit leads the
Haristeens and the authorities to a double-edged discovery regarding the root
of all evil that fans of the furry detectives and their two-legged pals will
appreciate.
----------------------------- There will be no December Ridgeway
Reads Book Club meeting, due to the Christmas Holiday season.
