Fall 2015 Selections

Charles Baxter's  
The Soul Thief 
 
Tuesday, September 29
3-4 

in BH 2243




Anthony Doerr's  
All the Light We Cannot See
 
Wednesday, October 28
3-4

in BH 2243

Mercè Rodoreda's  
In Diamond Square
(trans. Peter Bush) 
 
Monday, November 30
3-4

in BH 2243

Spring 2015

February is poetry.
Simon J. Ortiz's
from Sand Creek
see NPR for more on the apology
Wednesday, February 25, 3-4, in BH 1008

hosted by Sigma Kappa Delta

March is the novel.
Christina Baker Kline's
Orphan Train
see NPR for an interview with Kline
Tuesday, March 31, 3-4, in BH 2243

hosted by Jim Laughton

April is drama.
Tracy Letts'
August: Osage County
see NPR for an interview with Letts
Tuesday, April 21, 12-1, in BH 2243

Fall 2014 Selections

 

Monday,

September 29, 12-1
(Trammel Conference Room, BH 2243)

Jasper Fforde’s  The Eyre Affair

(see link)

Wednesday,

October 22, 3-4
(Trammel Conference Room, BH 2243)

Justin Torres’ We the Animals

(see interview)

Thursday,

November 20, 3-4
(Trammel Conference Room, BH 2243)

Rilla Askew’s Kind of Kin

(see review)

Spring 2014: 1441 Amazing Pages!

Tuesday, February 18, 3-4
(in Trammel Conference Room - BH 2243)
 

Timothy O’Grady “hosts”

the meeting on his novels   
Divine Magnetic Lands:
A Journey in America
and Light.

Thursday, March 6, 1:30-2:30
(in BH 1018)

Daniel Woodrell’s

Winter’s Bone

Film showing of Winter’s Bone in White Auditorium, 
discussion following (3:00-5:45 PM)

  

Monday, March 10, 12-1
(in SC 108)

Rilla Askew “hosts”

the meeting on her novel Harpsong.
(need to borrow a copy - email schesne@nwacc.edu)

 

Wednesday, April 16, 1:30-2:30
(in BH 2243)

Mohja Kahf "hosts" the meeting on

The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf

(copies for loan are available in the library)

Locations to be announced.

Spend fall with Katrina

Dave Eggers' Zeitoun is a national bestseller
and a winner of numerous awards. 
 
The Chicago Sun-Times called it "transformative...
[a story about] the trials of a good man
who believes in God and happens to have a canoe." 

Read this non-fiction novel: 
get a new understanding
of Hurricane Katrina,
Bush's "war on terror"
and being Muslim in America.

Book Club will meet Tuesday,
October 29, from 3-4, in BH 2243
(Trammel Conference Room).

New York Times Sunday Book Review 
of Zeitoun is here.

Copies are available for loan
(contact schesne@nwacc.edu)
and in the bookstore.

Moore and Silano for Spring!

Join us this spring to read and discuss and listen...
                     

  in early March
Christopher Moore's Fool, 
a novel where he brings the Fool
of Shakespeare's King Lear to life. 

We'll meet Thursday, March 14, 
from 3-4 in the Trammel Conference Room (BH 2243).




See Moore for more.









 in late April
Martha Silano will be visiting
and reading from her poetry.

The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception

See Silano for more.

Her reading is Wednesday, April 24 at 7pm
in Peterson Auditorium
(room 1047 in the Shewmaker Center for Global Business Development).

All are invited.

Spend the fall with Skloot!

This fall we will read Rebecca Skloot's
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
NEW TIME!! Join us Thursday, November 15, from 3-4, in BH 2243.
I have a few books to loan;
the NWACC bookstore will also order some in September.