Jemez Springs Public Library

Book Discussion 2007-08

Meets 3^rd Thursday of each month -- 7 pm at the Library Conference Room

Oct. 18	The Worst Hard Time	Timothy Egan	The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage.
Nov. 15	Eat, Pray, Love	Elizabeth Gilbert	In this memoir, Gilbert foregoes her successful urban life, setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures: Italy, India, and Bali.
Dec. 20	Indian Givers	Jack Weatherford	Weatherford traces the crucial contributions made by the Indians to our federal system of government, our democratic institutions, modern medicine, agriculture, architecture, and ecology.
Jan. 17	Special Topics in Calamity Physics	Marish Pesl	Nabokov meets Donna Tartt (then invites the rest of the Western Canon to the party) in this unusual novel—with “visual aids” drawn by the author
Feb. 21	What is the What?	Dave Eggers	This epic novel is based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children--the so-called Lost Boys--was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven, to be finally is resettled in the U. S.
March 20	Cancelled
April 17	The Echo Maker	Richard Powers	A young man has an accident and is left with a brain lesion, unable to recognize the faces of the people closest to him. Powers delivers a compelling examination of what happens when a person loses his sense of self, occupying the same body, but changed on the inside.
May 15	The May Trees	Annie Dillard	In this capstone to Dillard's original body of work, she depicts nature's vastness and nearness, as well as bonds of loyalty, friendship, and love.
June 19	What Wildness Is This: Women Write About the Southwest	Susan Albert, Susan Hanson, Jan Seale & Paula Yost, editors	Through prose, poetry, creative nonfiction, and memoir, the women in this anthology explore both the outer landscape of the Southwest and their own inner landscapes as women living on the land
July 17	Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio	Jeffrey Kluger	With rivalries, reversals, and a race against time, the struggle to eradicate polio is one of the great tales of modern history. Now, at the 50th anniversary of the first national vaccination program, comes this unforgettable chronicle.
August 21	The World Without Us	Alan Weisman	Weisman asks us to envision our Earth without us. What we would leave if our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence?
Sept. 18	Junkyard Dreams	Jeanette Boyer	In Junkyard Dreams, old-timers in Santa Fe retaining their emotional ties to the land face newcomers with money who want to build on every hilltop. Sound familiar?

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