Book Clubs

Destination Wonder: Bright of the Sky, by Kay Kenyon
	Wednesday, September 1, at 7:00 p.m.
	When Titus Quinn entered the parallel universe of the Entire, he lost his wife and daughter to the alien realm. Now he has a chance to rescue them, but to do so he must travel unimaginable distances and overcome impossible odds to reach the heart of power and outwit the cruel alien Tarig overlords. But after ten years in another world, will Quinn’s family welcome his attempt to save them?

The General Book Club: Cannery Row by John Steinbeck [Fiction]
	Monday, September 13, 2010 at 7:00 pm

Crime Fiction Book Club: A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
	Monday, 9/20/10 @ 7:00 pm & Tuesday, 9/21/10 @ 2:00 pm
	It's December 1963 and teenage girls all over Britain are swooning to the Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand." In the tiny, remote village of Scardale, Derbyshire, 13-year-old Alison Carter is envied by her peers because her stepfather buys her all the latest records. When Alison goes missing one dark night, Dist. Insp. George Bennett takes control of the case, despite being new to the job and the district. Other children have gone missing recently from towns and cities in the north, but somehow Alison's case is different.

Destination Wonder: Already Dead, by Charlie Huston
	Wednesday, October 6, at 7:00 p.m.
	Private Investigator Joe Pitt is a vampire. Manhattan is crawling with them, and the various coalitions of bloodsuckers run the island’s businesses, both illegal and above-board. It seems that a darling little heiress has gone missing in this city of predators, and someone’s got to find her. Joe drew the short straw.

The General Book Club: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver [Nonfiction]
	Monday, October 11, 2010 at 7:00 pm

Crime Fiction Book Club: The Coroner’s Lunch by Colin Cotterill
	Monday, 10/18/10 @ 7:00 pm & Tuesday, 10/19/10 @ 2:00 pm
	From Booklist: This first Dr. Siri Paiboun mystery introduces readers to a delightful old man conscripted in 1975 to become the chief medical examiner of Laos after the nation's "only doctor with a background in performing autopsies had crossed the river" into Thailand....But when the wife of a party leader turns up dead and the bodies of tortured Vietnamese soldiers start bobbing to the surface of a Laotian lake, all eyes turn to Siri. Frank Sennett Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Ratings of Crime Fiction Books 2009-2010 by PM and AM Groups

September	While I was Gone by Sue Miller	3¶¶¶	3¶¶¶
October	The Sculptress by Minette Walters	3.5¶¶¶	4 ¶¶¶¶
November	Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth	5¶¶¶¶¶	4.5¶¶¶¶
December	Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre	2.5¶¶	2.5¶¶
January	Come To Grief by Dick Francis	5¶¶¶¶¶	5¶¶¶¶¶
February	Blue Heaven by C.J. Box	5¶¶¶¶¶	5¶¶¶¶¶
March	Down River by John Hart	5¶¶¶¶¶	5¶¶¶¶¶
April	The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin	1¶	2¶¶
May	Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl	3¶¶¶	4¶¶¶¶

The Crime Fiction and General Book Clubs will not meet during July and August and will resume in September. Destination Wonder will meet year round.