The SAGA Book Club has made its selection for November--Issac's Storm by Erik Larson. November's discussion will be Saturday, Nov. 13 at 11:00 am via Zoom. Interested in joining? Email [email protected] for further details. From the author's website: At the turn of the last century, Isaac Cline, chief weatherman for Texas, believed no storm could do serious harm to the city of Galveston, a fast growing metropolis on the Gulf Coast destined for great things. In September 1900 a massive hurricane proved him wrong, at great personal cost. The storm killed as many as 10,000 people in Galveston alone, stole the city’s future, and caused hurricane experts to revise their thinking about how hurricanes kill. The book won the American Meteorology Society’s prestigious Louis J. Battan Author’s Award. The Sunday Assembly Gainesville Book Club has chosen “Isabella’s Painting: A Notorious Art Heist Mystery” by Ellen Butler for October's discussion. The book is the first in the Karina Cardinal Mystery series. The meeting will take place Saturday, Oct. 9 at 11:00 am via Zoom. The club will also vote on books to read in the future. Interested in joining? Email [email protected] for more information. From GoodReads.com: In 1990 Boston's Gardner Museum was robbed of $500 million worth of artwork. Twenty-eight years later the art remains at large ... until now. Peeling back layers of lies could save a masterpiece or reveal a killer. The official August selection for SAGA's book club is Hamnet—a novel of the Plague by Maggie O’Farrell. The book club will meet on Saturday, Aug. 14 at 10:30 via Zoom. Interested in joining? Email [email protected] for more information. From Amazon: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD “Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare’s life… here is a novel … so gorgeously written that it transports you." --The Boston Globe In 1580’s England, during the Black Plague a young Latin tutor falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman in this “exceptional historical novel” (The New Yorker) and best-selling winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. The SAGA Book Club continues via Zoom. The next book club meeting is Saturday, July 10 at 11:00 am. July's book selection is Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann. From the author's website: From New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history Interested in participating? Contact Hennie Monkhorst at [email protected].
April's selection for the SAGA Book Club is Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson. The club will meet Saturday, April 10 @ 11:00 am via Zoom. From Amazon: From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era’s great transatlantic “Greyhounds”—the fastest liner then in service—and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. Interested in joining the discussion? Email [email protected] for more information. The official selection for March for the Sunday Assembly virtual Book Club is Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus by Lynn Sherrer. The Book Club will meet virtually using the Zoom platform on Saturday, March 13 @ 11:00 am. March's book selection is Book 1 of an urban fantasy series full of adventure and snarky humor. From Amazon.com: Saving the world is such a bother when it makes you late for tea. Wizard Lily Singer is kept busy managing library archives, studying magic, and trying to keep her witch friend Sebastian from dragging her into trouble. Unfortunately, he loves adventure even more than she loves being left alone. She doesn't want to investigate a malignant spell in a haunted house, but Sebastian is promising rare books as the reward. She also doesn't want to hurt her family, but is tired of being lied to about her past. And she definitely doesn't want to get stuck in a dangerously unstable time loop, but Sebastian is in trouble--again... Strangling her friend, as satisfying as it would be, won't fix her problems. If she wants answers, and to not miss tea, she had best find the right spell for the job--before everything goes to hell, and takes them all with it. Interested in joining? Email [email protected] to get the Zoom information.
January's book club meeting is set for Saturday, Jan. 9 at 11 am via Zoom. Interested in joining and discussing a book with like-minded folk? Joining is easy. Email [email protected] for Zoom information. This month's book is The Delight of Being Ordinary by Roland Murello. GoodReads has this to say about the book: "Roland Merullo's playful, eloquent, and life-affirming novel finds the Pope and the Dalai Lama teaming up for an unsanctioned road trip through the Italian countryside to rediscover the everyday joys of life that can seem, even for the two holiest men in the world, unattainable." |
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