Claremont Library Book Club

Reading Schedule for 2014-2015

1st Fridays
10-11 am / Author / Title / Copyright Date / Presenter / Pages / Genre
Oct. 3, 2014 / Boo, Katherine / Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death & Hope in a Mumbai Undercity / February 7, 2012 / Eleanor Montague
Lorraine Freese / 290 / NF: realistic portrayal of life in a Mumbai slum. Author is American Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who is married to an Indian man.
Nov. 7, 2014 / French, Tana / Broken Harbor: A Novel (Dublin Murder Squad) / 2012 / Amy Crow / 450 / Mystery: Set in the Irish recession, the Spain family is murdered.
Dec. 5, 2014 / Hirahara, Naomi / Summer of the Big Bachi
(Author speaks Mar. 1, 2-4 @ MSAG.) / 2004 / Barbara Rugeley / 304 / Mystery: Prickly, stubborn Mas Arai, Hiroshima survivor, widower and estranged father solves a crime in Altadena. Peppered with pungent cultural details, crisp prose and credible, fresh descriptions of the effects of the A-bomb. March 1 author speaks.
Jan. 9, 2015
Date change! / Alvarez, Julia / In the Time of the Butterflies / 2000 / Anne Bellemin / 352 / Fic: Dominican Republic’s dictatorship of Trujillo, from the view of 4 sisters who fight the regime.
Feb. 6, 2015 / Meltzer, Brad / Fifth Assassin: (The Culper Ring Series) / 2013 / Stacey Stecker / 512 / Mystery: Brainy archivist at the National Archives sleuthes.
Mar. 6, 2015 / de Rosnay, Tatiana / Sarah’s Key / 2008 / Lorraine Freese / 320 / His Fic: Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is arrested by French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup. Paris 2002: a journalist investigates.
Apr. 3, 2015 / Moriarty, Liane / What Alice Forgot / 2010 / Robert Zitar (sub:
Stacey Stecker) / 496 / Fic: With a conk on the head, Alice loses 10 years of her life.
May 1, 2015 / Meacham, Jon / Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship / October 14, 2003 / Eleanor Montague / 512 / NF: Roosevelt and Churchill: “the most remarkable friendship of the modern age.”
June 5, 2015 / Kline, Christina Baker / Orphan Train / 2013 / Linda Wolfe / 240 / Hist Fic: Based on fact, orphans were sent West to find new homes and families.
July 10, 2015
Date change! / Cain, Susan / Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking / 2011 / Linda Wolfe / 352 / NF: explores introversion through psychological research, old and new.
Aug. 7, 2015 / Bring your title suggestions!

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