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St. Francis Book Club
Join us for
stimulating conversation and observations
about interesting books (even if you haven't read or finished the
book).
4th Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m., St. Francis' Fran Williamson Memorial Library
You can find
Book Club selections at your favorite library,
Willow Glen Books or other bookstore
or locate a book online at
www.Amazon.com
www.Alibris.com, or
www.overstock.com,
both new and used copies.
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Upcoming |
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September 28, 2010 |
The
Battle for God, by Karen
Armstrong |
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October 26, 2010 |
Tinkers, by Paul Harding |
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November 23, 2010 |
When Will There Be Good News, by Kate
Atkinson |
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December, 2010 |
No book club meeting this month |
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January 25, 2011 |
Little Bee, by Chris Cleave |
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February 22, 2011 |
The Reliable Wife, by Robert Goolrick |
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March 22, 2011 |
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, by Rhoda
Janzen |
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April 26, 2011 |
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett |
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Support Our Local Bookstores
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Willow Glen Books, 1330 Lincoln Ave, SJ,
408.298.8141
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Hicklebees, 1378 Lincoln Ave, SJ,
408.292.8880
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Recycle Books,
1066 The
Alameda, SJ 408.286.6275 ; 275 E. Campbell
Ave., Campbell, 408.370.3514
Suggested Books
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Author |
Title |
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Adams, Richard |
Watership Down |
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Armstrong, Karen |
The Spiral Staircase |
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Chandler, Raymond |
The Long Goodbye |
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Collins, Francis S. |
The Language of God |
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Faulks, Sebastian |
Birdsong |
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Patchett, Ann |
Bel Canto |
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Steinbeck, John |
East of Eden |
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Snyder, Barbara Bode |
Thomas the Apostle |
Past Books
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Author |
Title |
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Albom, Mitch |
The Five People You Meet in Heaven |
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Ali, Ayaan Hirsi |
Infidel |
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Appleman-Jurmann, Alicia |
Alicia: My Story |
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Austen, Jane |
Persuasion |
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Barrie, J. M. |
Peter Pan |
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Barry, Dave and Pearson, Ridley |
Peter & The Starcatchers |
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Bennett, Alan |
The Uncommon Reader |
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Bittner, Mark |
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill |
| Boyle T.C. |
The Tortilla Curtain |
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Brandt, Tommy |
The Mechanicals |
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Brown, Dan |
Angels and Demons |
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Brown, Dan |
The DaVinci Code |
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Buck, Pearl S. |
The Good Earth |
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Bryson, Bill |
In a Sunburned Country |
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Bryson, Bill |
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid |
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Bryson, Bill |
Notes from a Small Island |
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Camus, Albert |
The Stranger |
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Conrad, Gyorgy (George) |
Stonedial |
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D'Sousa, Dinesh |
What's So Great About America? |
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Dalessandro, James
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1906: A Novel |
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de Rosnay, Tatiana |
Sarah's Key |
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Dean, Debra |
The
Madonnas of Leningrad |
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Dickens, Charles |
A Christmas Carol -
complete text online |
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Divakaruni, Chita |
Arranged Marriage |
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Duckworth, Penelope |
Mary: The Imagination of Her
Heart |
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Edwards, Kim |
The Memory Keeper's Daughter |
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Eggers, Dave |
What Is the What:
The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Dengat |
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Farrell, Harry |
Swift Justice: Murder and
Vengeance in a California Town |
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Fergus, Jim |
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd:
A Novel |
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Flagg, Fannie |
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven |
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Gallagher, Nora |
Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work,
Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace |
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Gilbert, Elzabeth |
Eat, Pray, Love |
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Gruen, Sara |
Water for Elephants |
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Harris, Joanne |
Chocolat |
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Harris, Joanne |
Five Quarters of the Orange |
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Haddon, Mark |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in
the Night-time |
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Hegi, Ursula |
Stones from the River |
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Hillenbrand, Laura |
Seabiscuit: An American
Legend |
| Hillerman, Tony
| Skeleton Man
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Hosseini, Khaled |
The Kite Runner |
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Hosseini, Khaled |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
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Kidd, Sue Monk |
The Secret Life of Bees |
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Kidder, Tracy |
Mountains Beyond Mountains |
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King, Laurie R. |
The
Art of Detection |
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King, Laurie R. |
The Beekeeper's Apprentice |
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Kingsolver, Barbara |
Poisonwood Bible, The |
| Kushner, Harold
S. |
When Bad Things Happen to Good People |
| Larson, Erik
| The Devil in the White City |
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Lee, Harper |
To
Kill a Mockingbird |
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Lewis, C. S. |
The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe |
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Lindberg, Anne Morrow |
Gift from the Sea |
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Martel, Yann |
The Life of Pi |
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Martin, Steve |
The Pleasure of My Company |
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Martin, Steve |
Shopgirl |
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Masumoto, David Mas |
Epitaph for a Peach: Four
Seasons on My Family Far |
| Niffenegger,
Audrey |
The Time Traveler's Wife |
| O'Brian, Patrick |
Master and Commander |
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Obama, Barack |
Dreams From My Father |
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Ohanneson, Joan |
Scarlet Music |
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Packer, Ann |
The Dive from Clausen's Pier |
| Picoult, Jodi |
My Sister's
Keeper |
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Picoult, Jodi |
Nineteen Minutes |
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Riordan, Rick |
The Lightning Thief |
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Robinson, Marilynne |
Housekeeping: A Novel |
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Rowling, J.K. |
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
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Rowling, J.K. |
Harry Potter and the Half Blood
Prince |
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Rowling, J.K. |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone |
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Rowling, J.K. |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban |
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Sachar, Louis |
Holes |
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Salinger, J. D. |
The Catcher in the Rye |
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See, Lisa |
Shanghai Girls |
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See, Lisa |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
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Shaffer, Mary Ann and Barrows. Annie |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
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Shreve, Anita |
Sea Glass |
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Spong, John Shelby |
Why Christianity Must Change or
Die |
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Steinbeck, Thomas |
Down to a Soundless
Sea |
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Strout, Elizabeth |
Olive Kitteridge |
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Vreeland, Susan |
Passion of Artemisia, The |
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Wallach, Janet |
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia |
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Walls, Jeannette |
The Glass Castle: A Memoir |
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Young, Wm. Paul |
The
Shack |
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Zusak, Markus |
The Book Thief |
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