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.

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July's Book

The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro

Thurs. July 21st (3rd Thurs)
8pm at Andi M's

Summary:
The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession.  In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer.  Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking, pitch-perfect novel -- namely, Stevens' own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love ito his tightly repressed existence.

summary from the PCPL website

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June's Book

The Rent Collector
by Cameron Wright

June 16th (3rd Thurs)
8pm at Aimeè's 

Summary:
The Rent Collector is the story of a young mother, Sang Ly, struggling to survive by picking through garbage in Cambodia's largest municipal dump.  Under the threat of eviction by an embittered old drunk who is charged with collecting rents from the poor of Stung Meanchey, Sang Ly embarks on a desperate journey to save her ailing son from a life of ignorance and poverty.  It's a tale of discovery and redemption in which she learns that literature, like hope, is found in the most unexpected places.  Though the book is a work of fiction, it was inspired by real people living at Stung Meanchey.

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September's Book

Possession
by A. S. Byatt

Sept. 19th  (3rd Thurs)
8pm at Emily P.'s

Summary:
Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire—from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany—what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas.

An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom.

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April's Book

Divergent
by Veronica Roth

April 18th (3rd Thurs.)
8pm at Erin's home

Summary:
In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is--she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are--and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.

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