If you liked Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson, you might like:
Moran Prairie Library Book Club selection for September 23, 2010, at 2 p.m.
Everyone is welcome! |
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 | Albom, Mitch | | Tuesdays with Morrie: an Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson | | True story of the discussions Albom had with his dying sociology professor and mentor, Morrie Schwartz -- the topic is life, and Morrie has profound advice for his former student. |
|  | Brooks, Geraldine | | March | | Imagines the Civil War from the viewpoint of Little Women’s Mr. March -- a Union chaplain, who writes to his family from Virginia, at an estate he remembers from his earlier life. |
|  | Courtemanche, Gil | | A Good Death | | Nine surviving adult children and their families gather for the traditional Christmas Eve dinner -- though their father is dying of Parkinson’s and the aftereffects of a devastating stroke, he continues his lifelong reign of terror. |
|  | Eugenides, Jeffrey | | Middlesex | | To understand why the latest of three generations of a Green-American family is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal. |
|  | Ford, Jamie | | Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet | | Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during WWII and Japanese American internment camps of the era -- tells the heartwarming story of fathers and sons, first loves, fate, and the resilient human heart. |
|  | Ford, Richard | | Wildlife | | Joe, now an adult, recalls confronting his parents’ shortcomings at age 16 in 1960s Great Falls, Montana -- when his unemployed father took up firefighting and his mother began an affair. |
|  | Guterson, David | | East of the Mountains | | Retired heart surgeon discovers he has terminal colon cancer -- determined to avoid suffering he sets out across the Central Washington canyon, with his 2 hunting dogs, on his last hunt. |
|  | Jones, Edward P. | | The Known World | | Dying 31-year-old former slave, now master of 33 slaves of his own, and more than 50 acres of land in Manchester County, Va., is worried about the fate of his holdings upon his death. |
|  | McCarthy, Cormac | | The Road | | A man and a boy, father and son, "each the other’s world entire," walk the road -- scavenging their way south for the winter, in the ashes of a post-apocalyptic world. |
|  | Russo, Richard | | Empire Falls | | He’s unlucky in love and money, and just a little bit smarter than the people who populate his run-down industrial town, managing a restaurant that serves as a meeting hall for the local citizens. |
|  | Tan, Amy | | The Bonesetter’s Daughter | | She recognizes her mother’s decline with Alzheimer’s and resolves that for once she will ask, she will listen to her stories of "The Things I Must Not Forget." |
|  | Turow, Scott | | Ordinary Heroes | | He knew his father had served in WWII, but it is only after his death that a packet of wartime letters tells of hs father’s court-martial, and he’s driven to uncover the truth about this man he never knew. |
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