- Book Club Update
July 12th- The Help by Kathryn Stockton. Sue Van Essen will host. (Amazon has it on sale for $12.97)
August 2nd -The Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Gruenwald. Annie Temple will host.
PAST MEETINGS AND THE BOOKS WE'VE READ:
- February, 2003: The Red Tent – Anita Diament
- March, 2003: Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America – Stephen G. Bloom
- April, 2003: Hannah’s Daughters – Mary Ann Fredreickson
- May, 2003: At Home in Mitford – Jan Koran
- June, 2003: Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
- July, 2003: The Master Butcher’s Singing Club - Louise Erdrich
- August, 2003: Pigs in Heaven – Barbara Kingsolver
- September, 2003: The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd
- October, 2003: Odd Girl Out – Rachel Simmons
- November, 2003: Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
- December, 2003: The Christmas Box – Richard Paul Evans
- January, 2004: Peace Like a River – Leif Enger
- February, 2004: Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
- March, 2004: The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
- April, 2004: Fat Land - Greg Critser
- May, 2004: The DaVinci Code – Dan Brown
- June, 2004: The Purpose Driven Life – Rick Warren
- July, 2004: Angry Housewives Eating BonBons – Lorna Landvik
- August, 2004: Let’s Roll – Lisa Beamer
- September, 2004: Icebound – Dr. Jeri Nielson
- November, 2004: Skipping Christmas – John Grisham
- December, 2004: Christmas Party, no book discussion
- January, 2005: The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- February, 2005: Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
- March, 2005: The Kitchen Boy – Robert Alexander
- April, 2005: Pompeii – Robert Harris
- May, 2005: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon
- June, 2005: I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
- July, 2005: The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- August, 2005: The Founding Mothers – Cokie Roberts
- September, 2005: Crow Lake – Mary Lawson
- October, 2005: Number #1 Ladies Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith
- November 2005: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
- December, 2005: Christmas Party, no book discussion
- January, 2006: To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- February, 2006: The Other Boleyn Sister – Phillipa Gregory
- March, 2006: Under the Banner of Heaven – Jon Krakauer
- April, 2006: The Usual Rules – Joyce Maynard
- May, 2006: Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
- June, 2006: My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
- July, 2006: Field Trip to new downtown Des Moines Public Library, no book discussion
- August, 2006: Marley and Me – John Grogan
- September, 2006: The Loop – Nicolas Evans
- October, 2006: Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi
- November, 2006: A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
- December, 2006: Christmas Party, no book discussion
- January, 2007: Wicked – Gregory MacGuire
- February, 2007: The Last Days of Dogtown – Anita Diament
- March, 2007: Gifts from the Sea – Anne Morrow
- April, 2007: Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared M. Diamond
- May, 2007: “Jesus Camp” (Movie and discussion)
- June, 2007: The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler
- July, 2007: A Year of Pleasures – Elizabeth Berg
- August, 2007: Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
- September, 2007: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane – Kate DiCamillo
- October, 2007: March – Geraldine Brooks
- November, 2007: A Long Way Gone – Ishmael Beah
- December, 2007: Christmas Party, no book discussion
- January, 2008: The Faith Club – Ranya Idleby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner
- February, 2008: Eat, Love, Pray - Elizabeth Gilbert
- March, 2008: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See
- April, 2008: 1000 Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
- May, 2008: The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
- June, 2008: Three Cups of Tea - Mortensen
- July, 2008: The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- August, 2008: The Friday Night Knitting Club
- September, 2008: The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman.
- October, 2008: The Shack
- November, 2008: The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
- December, 2008: Christmas Party, no book discussion
- January, 2009: canceled due to weather
- February, 2009: Movie Night: Iron Jawed Angels
- March 2: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- April 6th: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Housseini
- May 4th: The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
- June 1st: Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
- July 6th: Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- September 14th: The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow
- October 5th: Dewey: The Small-town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
- November: Hope's Boy by Andrew Bridge
- December, 2009: Christmas Party -no book discussion
- January 2010: movie
- February 2010: Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson.
- March 2010: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
- April 2010: My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Boldt Taylor
- May 2010: Shanghai Girls by Lisa See (Also wrote, Snowflower and the Secret Fan.)
