February's Book

The Autobiography of 
Malcolm X
As Told to Alex Haley

February 16th (3rd Thurs)
8pm at Emily P.'s

The public library has a limited number of copies of this book.  However, Emily is willing to lend her copy out as soon as she's finished it.

Summary:
The famous black leader tells the story of his life, from his birth in St. Louis through his career as a criminal and eventual imprisonment, to his conversion to Islam, rise to leadership within the Black Muslims, and gaining of international prominence as a voice of black protest.

Summary from Pima County Public Library

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February's Book

To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee

Feb. 21st (3rd Wed.)
8pm at Janeen's home

Summary:
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.

Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.

summary from www.goodreads.com

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January

Movie Night

Friday, Jan. 13th at Lieschen's home
Movie starts at 7 p.m.

Come early to get munchies & a good seat!

September's Book

The Help
by Kathryn Stockett

Sept 21st (3rd Wed.)
8pm at Judy's

There is quite the hold list at the library, however, there are a few copies of the book available to borrow from friends.

Summary:
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.

Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.

Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women - mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends - view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.

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