Ides of March 2015 Treasure Valley Book Clubs Listing

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CONTENTS Welcome to The Cabin! ................................................... 4 Join The Cabin ........................................................ 5 On Reading in Community .............................................. 6 Starting a Book Club .............................................. 6 Keeping a Book Club Going ................................... 7 Reading Critically ................................................... 8 Leading the Discussion........................................ 10 Example Questions For Discussion ..................... 11 Suggestions for Book Club Participants ............. 11 2015 Treasure Valley Book Club Selections ............... 12 Index of Book Club Listings .......................................... 48

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WELCOME TO THE CABIN! The Cabin incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1996. Our mission is to inspire and celebrate a love of reading, writing and discourse.

The Cabin annually serves about 500 member households, more than 2,000 children and youth, and more than 16,000 people through educational and cultural programs. We serve our diverse constituencies through:  READINGS & CONVERSATIONS, an annual lecture series bringing internationally-acclaimed, provocative and inspiring writers to Boise;  WRITERS IN THE SCHOOLS (WITS), placing professional writers in classrooms with 3rd-12th grade students;  SUMMER WRITING CAMPS AND WORKSHOPS, writing intensives and adventures for youth and adults, one of ten model arts education programs in the U.S.;  WRITERS IN THE ATTIC (WITA), an annual publication contest and event for local writers;  LITERARY ACTIVITIES such as book club meetings, writing workshops, readings by local authors, and other events that create conversation and community around literature.

The Cabin’s administrative offices are housed in our restored log cabin, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Four fulltime staff and one part-time staff are supported by a strong membership, a talented group of professional teaching-writers and a growing volunteer base. The Cabin is also governed by a 13member board of directors.

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JOIN THE CABIN! The Cabin inspires and celebrates a love of reading, writing, and discourse throughout Idaho and the region. Become a member today and enjoy discounted rates on programs and events.

Individual Member - $35 annually Member pricing for workshops Member pricing for one Readings & Conversations season ticket Member pricing for one Camp session Invitation to annual members only event Discounted submission fees for Cabin publications Recognition in Annual Report Household Member - $75 annually All individual membership benefits for up to 2 adults Member pricing for 2 Readings & Conversations season tickets Member pricing for 2 camp sessions Sustaining Member - $10/month (or $120 annually) All of the benefits of a household membership Member pricing for up to 4 Readings & Conversations season tickets Member pricing for up to 4 camp sessions Use of The Cabin for book club meetings Advocate Member- $25/month (or $300 annually) All of the benefits of a sustaining membership Invitation to Readings & Conversations Reception with featured author LEADERSHIP CIRCLE The Cabin’s Leadership Circle is a community of our most generous and engaged members, whose annual financial support forms the foundation for all we do. Leadership Circle membership begins with a minimum annual contribution of $1,200 or $100 a month. Please contact The Cabin for more information.

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ON READING IN COMMUNITY STARTING A BOOK CLUB  Make expectations clear. Common expectations include careful reading, active participation in book selection and discussion, and regular attendance.  Decide what types of books your group wants to read. Only fiction? Prize winners? Classics? Anything and everything?  Decide if the books should be coordinated with anything else.

Bestseller lists? A local or visiting writers series? Book reviews?  Figure out the logistics. How long should the meetings run? (We find that the best discussions last between 45 and 90 minutes.)

Where will you meet? At a library? Coffee shop? Private homes?

How will everyone keep in contact? Facebook? Email? Phone?  Determine the leadership. Will you have a leader? Will the same person be in charge for each meeting, or will you rotate? Do you want to have special guests or experts visit the group? Will you have a budget set aside for visitors?  Choose the books. Choosing what books to read is one of the hardest and most important activities the group will undertake together. Members should be prepared to read outside their regular areas of interest and go with the majority opinion.

Remember that there is a big difference between "a good read" and "a good book for a discussion." Choose books well in advance so people can read ahead if they’d like.

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KEEPING A BOOK CLUB GOING What makes a book good for discussion? The most important criteria are that the book be well written, have an interesting plot, and feature three-dimensional characters. Books that provoke discussion often present the author's view of an important truth, feature a difficult but necessary decision, or highlight a controversial aspect of life. These books can also be characterized by their lingering in the reader's mind long after the book has been put back on the shelf and the discussion is over. These books can be read more than once, and each time the reader can learn something new.

THOUGHTS ON GENRE During a book discussion, people are often concerned with everything that the author hasn't said. For this reason, books that are strictly plot driven, (most mysteries, westerns, romances, and science fiction/fantasy), don't lend themselves to riveting discussions. You don’t want a book in which the author spells everything out for the reader. With those books all there is left to say is "wasn’t that interesting."

Librarians, booksellers, literary organizations and friends can often supply you with suggestions. In addition, this "everything that the author hasn't said" criterion is a rich argument for including poetry in your book club’s reading list.

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READING CRITICALLY The very best books provide a profound sense of kinship between reader and writer. Searching for, identifying, and discussing how a book accomplishes this kinship can deepen your appreciation of the book.

Asking questions, reading carefully, imagining yourself in the story, analyzing style or structure, and searching for personal meaning in a work of literature will enhance the work's value and discussion potential.  Make notes and mark pages as you go. Reading for a book discussion differs somewhat from reading purely for pleasure.

As you read a book in preparation for a discussion, mark pages you might want to refer back to.  Ask tough questions of yourself and the book. Obviously, asking questions means you don't know the answer yet, and sometimes you will never discover the answer. This is okay!  Pay attention. As with any skill, critical reading improves with practice.  Analyze the content. While summarizing a book can sometimes be useful, analysis will give you a greater understanding of the book and the relationship of its parts.  Examine, evaluate, dissect, and read between the lines to connect the book’s content to other knowledge.  Get to know the characters. When you meet the characters in the book, place yourself in the scene. Think of them as you do the people around you. Think about their faults, virtues and motives. Read portions aloud to get to know their voices.  Notice the structure of the book. Sometimes an author uses the structure or form of the book to illustrate a concept that is central to the book’s purpose. Ask questions. Are chapters 8

prefaced with quotes? How many narrators tell the story? How does the sequence of events unfold to create the mood of the story? Is it written in flashbacks?  Make comparisons to other books and authors. Compare the book to the author’s other work and to the work of his or her contemporaries. Often, the themes that run through an author's work are more fully realized in comparison.

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LEADING THE DISCUSSION Begin by researching the author online. Most authors have their own websites and usually their publisher’s website will also have helpful information. In addition, book reviews are readily available in publications such as The New York Times and Publishers Weekly. If you do not want to read online, you can visit your local library and look up the Book Review Digest, Book Review Index, or The Dictionary of Literary Biography.  Come prepared with 10 to 15 open-ended questions. Remember, questions that can be answered with a simple yes or no tend to cut off discussion quickly.  Questions should be used to start the discussion and keep it going, but be ready to let the discussion flow naturally. You'll often find that the questions you've prepared will come up all on their own.  Remind participants that there are not necessarily any “right” answers.  Don't be afraid to criticize a book; however, try to go beyond strictly evaluative comments such as "I just didn't like it" or “I liked it.” Remember that many of the best book discussions center on books that many group members dislike.  Every reader responds to a book in ways that are intimately tied to his or her background, but aim to keep a balance in the discussion between personal revelations and critical response.

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EXAMPLE QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION  What makes this book distinctive?  Is the time period or setting of the book important to the purpose? Why? How realistic is the setting?  Is the book written to present the author’s worldview?  How does politics play a role in the book?  Is the plot and the subplot believable? Are they compelling?  How understandable are the motivations of the characters? What motivates their behavior?  How is the book structured? Flashbacks? From one point of view? All in dialogue?  How does the language of the book help convey its purpose?  Does the author rely heavily on imagery and symbolism? Why or why not?

SUGGESTIONS FOR BOOK CLUB PARTICIPANTS  SPEAK UP. Group discussion is a conversation; everyone needs to take part.  LISTEN to others. Try to understand points of view other than your own.  BE BRIEF. Share the discussion with others. A good discussion keeps everyone in the conversation.  HAVE FUN. Enjoy having the opportunity to read books with a community or friends and to contribute to literary discussions.

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2015 TREASURE VALLEY BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS The following pages contain listings of books chosen for reading and discussion in 2015 by local book clubs.

If you’re looking for a new book club to join or are simply interested to know what the Treasure Valley is reading, read on!

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A BOOK CLUB IN MCCALL Contact: Karen Olsen Email: Kolsen@mdsd.org

Book Titles for 2015 The Dinner, Herman Koch The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt River of January, Gail Chumbley All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline

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A VERY EXCELLENT BOOK CLUB! Contact: Marilyn Shuler Phone: (208) 375-2827 Email: Marilyn@marilynshuler.com Book Titles for 2015 Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Professor’s House, Willa Cather Vintage Munro, Alice Munro Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr The Absolutely True Story of a Part Time Indian, Sherman Alexie Longbourn, Jo Baker I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage, Ann Patchett

Notes: We had a recent name change. Previously, we were simply A Book Cub.

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AAUW BOOK GROUP Contact: Lee Hipsher Phone: (208) 615-1505 Email: leehipsher45@gmail.com Book Titles for 2015 January 18 – Orange is the New Black: My Year in Women’s Prison, Piper Kerman February 15 – The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean March 15 – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie April 19 – The Last Runaway, Tracy Chevalier May 17 – The Blue Doorknob, the Artistic Life of Cornelia Hart Ferrer, Rita Branham Rodriguez June 21 – The Lemon Tree, Sandy Tolan July 19 – Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward

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BAD GIRLS BOOK CLUB Contact: Peggy McClendon Email: mcclendon5691@gmail.com

Book Titles for 2015 Someone, Alice McDermott The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd The Light Between Oceans, M.L. Stedman The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio, James Tobin Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Daughters of Mars, Thomas Keneally The Burgess Boys, Elizabeth Strout Vintage Munro, Alice Munro All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr The Moor’s Account, Laila Lalami

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BOISE FICTION FANCIERS Contact: Craig Randle Phone: (208) 859-0051 Email: dcrandle26@gmail.com Book Titles for 2015 The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera The Circle, Dave Eggers Thieving Forest, Martha Conway Dept. of Speculation, Jenny Offill

Notes: Since our members choose a total of only three books at a time, most of our selections for 2015 have not yet been determined.

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BOISE’S OUTSPOKEN, OUTRAGEOUS BOOK SOCIETY Contact: Connie Weaver Phone: (208) 344-5325 Email: Dreamweaver1407@cableone.net Book Titles for 2015 Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya Innocence, Dean Koontz Natchez Burning, Greg Isles Bossy Pants, Tina Fey Honolulu, Alan Brennert The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer Someone Knows my Name, Lawrence Hill My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story, Abraham Verghese The Girls of Atomic City, Denise Kiernan All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr The Tortilla Curtain, T.C. Boyle

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BOOK APPÉTIT Contact: Jessica Harrison Phone: (208) 631-8518 Email: jessicaharrison21@gmail.com Book Titles for 2015 Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison Not That Kind of Girl, Lena Dunham

Book Titles for 2014 This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald Westward the Women by Nancy Wilson Ross I Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

Notes: We take turns hosting the monthly meetings, and the host of the month selects the book to read. The books we read vary dramatically, since we each pick a book to read and all the members of the book club have different taste.

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BOOK CLUB Contact: K. Dianne Bevis Email: kdbevis@yahoo.com

Book Titles for 2015 January – Euphoria, Lily King February – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie Book Titles for 2014 January – Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn February – The Runaways, Alice Munro March – The Boys in the Boat, Daniel Brown April – The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd May – In the Kingdom of Men, Kim Barnes September – All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr October – Beautiful Ruins, Jesse Walters November – Stone Mattress, Margaret Atwood

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THE BOOK CLUB Contact: Anita Garcia Phone: (208) 860-6323 Email: agarcia0154@hotmail.com Book Titles for 2015 January – Stoner, John Williams February – The Geography of Bliss, Eric Weiner March March – The Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline April – The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown May – All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr

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BOOK CLUB FRIENDS Contact: Barbara Olic-Hamilton Phone: (208) 344-3778 Email: bfolic@gmail.com Book Titles for 2015 Above all Things, Tanis Rideout The Whore’s Child¸ Richard Russo Badluck Way, Bryce Andrews Day After Night, Anita Diamant Albert of Adelaide, Howard L. Anderson The Notting Hill Mystery, Charles Warren Adams The Last Animal, Abby Geni Abomination, Jonathan Holt The Burgess Boys, Elizabeth Strout Remedy, Thomas Goetz Abduction, Jonathan Holt

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BOOK CLUB WITH NO NAME Contact: Susan Stacy Phone: (208) 344-7371 Email: sstacy@spro.net Book Titles for 2015 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt The Wives of Los Alamos, TaraShea Nesbit Angel of Esperanรงa, Judith McConnell Steele The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown Peony in Love, Lisa See Life after Life, Kate Atkinson In the Kingdom of Ice, Hampton Sides

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BOOK LADIES Contact: Sandy Romero Phone: (208) 331-2517 or (208) 908-2179 Email: slaromero@gmail.com Book Titles for 2015 Lamb, Christopher Moore The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt Where Did You Go Bernadette?, Maria Semple The Big Burn - Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America, Timothy Eagan Place at the Table, Susan Rebecca White The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray, Walter Mosely The Kashmir Shawl, Rosie Thomas Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline The Pearl That Broke in Its Shell, Nadia Hashimi

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BROOKWOOD BOOK CLUB Contact: Evelyn Schriber Email: eschriber41@gmail.com

Book Titles for 2015 Delicious, Ruth Reichl Lost in Shangri-La, Mitchell Zuckoff All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson The Husband's Secret, Liane Moriarty Three Bargains, Tania Malik or Five Days Left, Julie Lawson Timmer The Painted Girls, Cathy Marie Buchanan Art Forger, B.A. Shapiro The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown

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THE FICTIONAL BOOK CLUB Contact: Natalie Perry Phone: (208) 608-3847 Email: viajeradelmundo2@yahoo.com Book Titles for 2015 January – The Barkeep, William Lashner February – Gift of the Phoenix, Donna Cook (local author will be attending the meeting) March – The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin April – All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr

Notes: Meeting times: 3rd Tuesday of the month 7-9 pm. We only pick our books two months out. We do monthly polls online so all of our members have a chance to vote on what we're reading.

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THE FOOD AND WINE BOOK CLUB Contact: Susan Gibson Phone: (208) 385-7011 Email: susagibs@gmail.com Book Titles for 2015 A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra The History of the Siege of Lisbon, Jose Saramago

Notes: We pick books as we go along. These are our books for 2015 so far.

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THE FOURTH FRIDAY BOOK GUILD Contact: Lana Jutzy Phone: (208) 389-9062 Email: ljutzy@aol.com Book Titles for 2015 January – Unbroken, Laura Hildebrand February – The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver March – Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner (also Crossing to Safety) April – Goldfinch, Donna Tartt May – All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr June – The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown

Notes: The Fourth Friday Book Guild meets at Barnes and Noble on (of course!) the fourth Friday of each month at 1:30 p.m.

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GREAT BOOKS CLUB Contact: Vince Hannity Phone: (208) 859-3454 Email: vhannity@gmail.com Book Titles for 2015 Rothschild’s Fiddle, Anton Chekhov On Happiness: a selection from the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle The Apology, Plato Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad Conscience: a selection from Lectures on Ethics, Immanuel Kant Alienated Labour: a selection from Writings, Karl Marx The Book of Genesis, from the Bible A selection from Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud A selection from The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Moral Sense of Man and the Lower Animals: a selection from The Origin of Species and the Descent of Man, Charles Darwin Othello, Shakespeare Of Justice and Injustice: a selection from Moral and Political Philosophy, David Hume The Power of the Majority: a selection from Democracy in America, Alexis De Tocqueville Individual Freedom: a selection from The Philosophy of Money, Georg Simmel Antigone, Sophocles Notes: Not yet determined: A novel to be read over the summer and discussed next fall.

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HERS BOOK CLUB Contact: Beth Bogue Phone: (208) 336-6767 Email: bbogue85@gmail.com Book Titles for 2015 January 8 – The Interestings, Meg Wolitzer February 12 – Sandcastle Girls, Chris Bohjalian March 12 – The Price of Silence, Liza Long April 9 – All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr May 14 – House Girl, Tara Conklin June 11 – The Girls of No Return, Erin Saldin July 9 – Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline August 13 – Day after Night, Anita Diamant September 10 – Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie October 8 – Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann November 12 – The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd December 10 – The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown Notes: We meet the second Thursday of each month at 7:30 pm. Our group is limited to twelve persons. What we share is a love of reading and learning. While we do not always agree, controversy breeds interesting discussion and thus, we respect all opinions.

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IDAHO CITY BOOK GROUP Contact: Lynn Murdoch Phone: (208) 392-4963 Email: lynnmurd@gmail.com Book Titles for 2015 01/08/15 – Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Jung Chang 02/12/15 – Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him, Luis Carlos Montalvan 03/12/15 – Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West – One Meal at a Time, Stephen Fried 04/09/15 – My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journal, Jill Bolte 05/14/15 – The Distant Hours, Kate Morton 06/11/15 – The Wives of Los Alamos, TaraShea Nesbit 07/09/15 – The Storyteller, Jodi Picoult 08/13/15 – The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin 09/10/15 – Follow the River, James Alexander Thom 10/08/15 – The Good American, Ursula Mandel 11/12/15 – Velva Jean Learns to Drive, Jennifer Niven 12/10/15 – (Short story to be announced)

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IDAHO WRITERS GUILD (IWG) Contact: Amanda Turner Phone: (208) 949-4683 Email: Amanda@akturner.com Book Titles for 2015 Frankenstein, Mary Shelley The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides TransAtlantic, Colum McCann Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters, John Steinbeck The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie

Notes: Open to all members of the Idaho Writers Guild, this group meets once a month for wine and appetizers at a member’s home.

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JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB Contact: Kristine Kendall Phone: (208) 371-1959 Email: dnkkendall@cableone.net Book Titles for 2015 The Watsons, Jane Austen A Jane Austen Encounter, Donna Fletcher Crow Jane Austen’s Country Life, Deirdre Le Faye Persuasion, Jane Austen Georgette Heyer’s Regency World, Jennifer Kloester At Home with Jane Austen, Kim Wilson

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LIT FOR LUNCH Contact: Cheryl Hindrichs Phone: (208) 345-1510 Email: cherylhindrichs@boisestate.edu Book Titles for 2015 2/15 – Benito Cereno, Herman Melville 3/15 – The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, Joseph Conrad 4/15 – Ship of Fools, Katherine Anne Porter 5/15 – The Cat’s Table, Michael Ondaatje

Notes: Book discussions are held at the Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., from 12:10 to 1 p.m., and are free and open to the public. No reservations required. Books are available at Rediscovered Books on 8th street between Main and Idaho which gives a 10% discount, as well as at Hyde Park Books at 1507 N. 13th St. which gives a 20% discount, and at the BSU Bookstore in the Student Union Building (426-1362), which gives a 25% discount. For more information, contact BSU English Professor Cheryl Hindrichs.

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LITERARY JOURNEYS Contact: Linda Paul Phone: (208) 345-1664 Email: lindadpaul@gmail.com Book Titles for 2015 All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr Goldfinch, Donna Tart Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, Timothy Egan An Invisible Thread, Laura Shroff Behind the Beautiful Forever, Katherine Boo

Notes: There are two more books that will be announced.

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MERIDIAN LIBRARY MORNING BOOK CLUB Contact: Greg Likins Phone: (208) 888-4451 Email: greg@mld.org Book Titles for 2015 February 3 – Last Letter from Your Lover, Jojo Moyes March 3 – A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute April 7 – Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Helen Simonson May 5 – The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, Jan-Philipp Sendker June 2 – Kitchen House, Kathleen Grissom July 7 – To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee August 4 – People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks September 1 – Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote October 6 – Baker’s Daughter, Sarah McCoy November 3 – Pope Joan, Donna Woolfolk Cross December 1 – All There Is: Love Stories, StoryCorps

Notes: Meets the first Tuesday of each month at 10:30 a.m. at the Meridian Library on Cherry Lane: 1326 W Cherry Lane, Meridian, ID 83642.

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MERIDIAN LIBRARY CLASSIC MOVIE & BOOK CLUB Contact: Greg Likins Phone: (208) 888-4451 Email: greg@mld.org Book and Movie Titles for 2015 Mar 6, 7:00 Mar 10, 6:30 Apr 10, 7:00 Apr 14, 6:30 May 8, 7:00 May 12, 6:30 Jun 5, 7:00 Jun 9, 6:30 Jul 10, 7:00 Jul 14, 6:30 Aug 7, 7:00 Aug 11, 6:30 Sep 4, 7:00 Sep 8, 6:30 Oct 9, 7:00 Oct 13, 6:30 Nov 6, 7:00 Nov 10, 6:30 Dec 4, 7:00 Dec 8, 6:30

Girl, Interrupted movie Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen African Queen movie African Queen, C.S. Forester Fight Club movie Fight Club book club, Chuck Palahniuk Portrait of a Lady movie Portrait of a Lady, Henry James Adaptation (Orchid Thief) movie The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean Age of Innocence movie Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton Everything is Illuminated movie Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer Dracula movie Dracula, Bram Stoker Razor's Edge movie Razor's Edge, W. Somerset Maugham Talented Mr. Ripley movie Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith

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MONDAYS AT MARIE’S Contact: Marie Macklin Phone: (208) 841-3739 Email: mmckln@q.com Book Titles for 2015 All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr Old Filth, Jane Gardam The Buffalo Soldier, Chris Bohjalian Rocks Make the River Sing, Eileen Thornburgh The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote

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THE MOXIE CLUB Contact: Dawn Cisper Phone: (208) 577-8062 Email: cisperfamily@msn.com Book Titles for 2015 2/14 – Aboard Cabrillo’s Galleon, Christine Echeverria Bender 4/14 – And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini 5/14 – The Persian Pickle Club, Sandra Dallas 7/14 - Eragon, Christopher Paolini 8/14 – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie 9/14 – Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See 10/14 – A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole 11/14 – Liar’s Club, Mary Karr 1/15 – Big Little Lies, Liane Moriarty 2/15 – All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr 3/15 – Bird by Bird, Anne Lammott 4/15 – The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson 5/15 – It Happened on the Way to War, Rye Barcott

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NAMPA READ & FEED BOOK CLUB Contact: Angie Wensel & Alita Svaty Phone: (208) 467-1324 & (208) 459-0348 Email: Wensel55@msn.com & amsvaty@speedyquick.net Book Titles for 2015 The Winter Garden, Kristin Hannah Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini Fever, Mary Beth Keane The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain Clara and Mr. Tiffany, Susan Vreeland Hippie Boy: A Girl’s Story, Ingrid Ricks The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr Return to Honor, LJ Elmore The River of Doubt, Candice Millard

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NOVEL WOMEN BOOK CLUB Contact: Stephanie Youngerman Email: ssyoungerman@gmail.com

Book Titles for 2015 The Whistling Season, Ivan Doig The Interestings, Meg Wolitzer Wild, Cheryl Strayed A Circle of Quiet, Madeleine L’Engle The Lizard Cage, Karen Connelly The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown Too Much Happiness, Alice Munro The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner The Absolute True Diary of a Part-time Indian, Sherman Alexie The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt

Notes: The Novel Women book club is not soliciting new members at this time.

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PAGE TRAVELERS Contact: Anita Flora Phone: (208) 871-1801 Email: adflora@juno.com Book Titles for 2015 January – Wishin’ and Hopin’, Wally Lamb February – You Disappear, Christian Jungersen March – Zorro, Isabel Allende April – Olive Kittridge, Elizabeth Strout

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PAGE TURNERS BOOK GROUP Contact: Carol Kotaska Phone: (208) 949-3320 Email: kotaska1969@gmail.com Book Titles for 2015 December – The Light Between Oceans, M. L. Stedman January – The Wedding Machine, Beth Webb Hart February – All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr March – The Book Thief, Markus Zusak April – Winter Kill, Craig Lesley May – Year on Lady Bug Farm, Donna Ball June – Plain Truth, Jodi Picoult July – Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin August – All Girls Filing Station’s Last Reunion, Fannie Flagg September – Boy’s Life, Robert McCammon

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THE PAPER DOLLS Contact: Deb Holleran Phone: (208) 336-1760 Email: Holl77@cableone.net Book Titles for 2015 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie Empty Mansions, Paul Clark Newell, Jr. & Bill Dedman The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown The Light Between Oceans, M.L. Stedman

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T & T BOOK GROUP Contact: Marshall Sharp Phone: (208) 587-7050 Email: blsharp@msn.com Book Titles for 2015 1/15 – All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr 2/15 – The Care and Management of Lies: A Novel of the Great War, Jacqueline Winspear 3/15 – The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown 4/15 – The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women who Helped Win World War II, Denise Kiernan 5/15 - Fingersmith, Sarah Waters 6/15 – Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng 7/15 – Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward 8/15 – Wild, Cheryl Strayed 9/15 – Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, David Shafer 10/15 – The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin 11/15 – Big Little Lies, Liane Moriarty 12/15 – The Orchardist, Amanda Coplin

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THREE BS: BABES, BOOKS, AND BUBBLES Contact: Rae Ann Norell Phone: (208) 477-8713 Email: norell208@cableone.net Book Titles for 2015 Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons, Lorna Landvik Traveling with Pomegranates, Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Still Life with Bread Crumbs, Anna Quindlen Songs of Willow Frost, Jamie Ford Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple Pilgrim’s Wilderness, Tom Kizzia Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, Timothy Egan The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, Sherman Alexie Empty Mansions, Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr. All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng

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WINE, WOMEN AND WORDS Contact: Vicki Flume Phone: (208) 288-0290 Email: Vicki@meetingsystems.com Book Titles for 2015 The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown The Orphan Train, Christina Baker Cline Isaac Storm, Erik Larson Little Women, Louisa May Alcott Wild, Cheryl Strayed Life after Life, Kate Atkinson All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd

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INDEX OF BOOK CLUB LISTINGS A Book Club in McCall ........... 13

Idaho City Book Group ........... 31

A Very Excellent...................... 14

Idaho Writers Guild (IWG) ...... 32

AAUW Book Group ................. 15

Jane Austen Book Club .......... 33

Bad Girls Book Club............... 16

Lit for Lunch ........................... 34

Boise Fiction Fanciers ........... 17

Literary Journeys .................... 35

Boise’s Outspoken................. 18

Meridian Library Morning ...... 36

Book Appétit ........................... 19

Meridian Movie & Book ......... 37

Book Club ......................... 20, 21

Mondays at Marie’s ............... 38

Book Club Friends ................. 22

Moxie Club .............................. 39

Book Club No Name .............. 23

Nampa Read & Feed ............. 40

Book Ladies ........................... 24

Novel Women Book Club ....... 41

Brookwood Book Club ........... 25

Page Travelers ........................ 42

Fictional Book Club ................ 26

Page Turners Book Group ..... 43

Food and Wine ....................... 27

Paper Dolls ............................. 44

Fourth Friday .......................... 28

T & T Book Group ................... 45

Great Books Club ................... 29

Three Bs .................................. 46

HERS Book Club .................... 30

Wine, Women & Words .......... 47

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