Manderino Library Book Club 2008-2009

Manderino Library Book Club
2008-2009
“Our Seventh Reading Season”

September 24, 2008—Wednesday—7:00 to 8:30 PM
Brooks, Geraldine. People of the Book: A Novel. New York: Viking, 2008.
Discussion leader: Beth Baxter

October 2008—Wednesday—Exact date TBA—7:00 to 8:30 PM
King, Stephen. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. New York: Scribner, 1999.
Discussion leader: Elizabeth Mason

November 26, 2008—Wednesday—7:00 to 8:30 PM
McCullough, David G. The Johnstown Flood. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968.
Discussion leader: TBA
Field Trip to Johnstown, PA: TBA

January 28, 2009—Wednesday—7:00 to 8:30 PM
Weller, Sheila. Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon—and the Journey of a Generation. New York: Atria Books, 2008.
Discussion leader: Marsha Nolf


February 25, 2009—Wednesday—7:00 to 8:30 PM
Clarke, Arthur C. 2001: A Space Odyssey. Any edition.
Discussion leader: Becky Nichols

March 25, 2009—Wednesday—7:00 to 8:30 PM
Madigan, Tim. I’m Proud of You: Life Lessons from My Friend Fred Rogers. New York: Gotham Books, 2007. “Allegheny County Library Association’s 6th annual One Book, One Community Program.” Fred Rogers was born on March 20, 1928.
Discussion leader: TBA

April 29, 2009—Wednesday—7:00 to 8:30 PM
McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses. New York: Knopf, 1992.
Discussion leader: Joan Drudi

May 2009—Exact date TBA—7:00 to 8:30 PM
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. Any edition.
Discussion leader: Fran Amatangelo


Meeting places will be announced closer to the September 2008 meeting.

Manderino Library Book Club--May 2008 Selection

“You know how it is there early in the morning in Havana with the bums still asleep against the walls of the buildings; before even the ice wagons come by with ice for the bars?” Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not.
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Fellow Readers:

The next meeting of the Manderino Library Book Club will be on Tuesday, May 20, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. We will meet at High Point. Give me a call if you need to have directions to this California restaurant.

I will be leading the discussion on Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not.

Looking forward to seeing you. As always, give me a call if you have any questions.

Marsha L. Nolf
Public Services Coordinator/Associate Professor
Louis L. Manderino Library
California University of Pennsylvania
250 University Avenue
California, PA 15419
724.938.4048
nolf@cup.edu