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NOVEMBER 7, 2010
On-the-Road at Starbucks Book Club
First Tuesday of each month from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at
Starbucks, 2418 Far Hills Avenue, in Oakwood.

Come join us!

We will not have a Big Read discussion this spring.  Look for OAKWOOD READS this summer.

Tuesday, June 4 -  Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder.  A chance encounter on a plane leads Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Tracy Kidder, to follow Paul Farmer to Haiti.  Farmer is a doctor, famed infectious disease specialist, Harvard professor and anthropologist.  He is on a relentless quest to bring modern medicine and hope to the abject poor, who live, as Abraham Verghese writes, "in the kinds of places we do not like to think about."  As stated in the Haitian proverb, "beyond mountains there are mountains," Farmer never falters as he turns to the next problem after solving the last.

Tuesday, July 2 - OAKWOOD READS 2013, Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver.  At 28, Dellarobia Turnbow has reached the end of her rope; she decides she can no longer tolerate grinding poverty, a hapless husband and her critical in-laws.  She plans to burn her bridges by having an affair up in a mountain shack.  Then, on the climb, she discovers a miracle.  As scientists arrrive, Dellarobia sets out to understand exactly what is going on and witnesses the miracle morphing toward catastrophe.  Barbara Kingsolver shows us an intelligent Applalachian waking up to a different reality and then discovering how to chart her own flight forward.

Tuesday, August 6 - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley.  It's 1950 and criminals beware, eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is on the case and looks unstoppable.  Flavia lives in England with her father, two dreadful sisters, and their loyal retainer, Dogger.  When murder threatens the family, Flavia turns her mad passion for chemistry to sleuthing, jumps on her bicycle Gladys, and tracks danger to its doorstep.  First-time novelist, Alan Bradley, won the Debut Dagger in 2007, the Agatha Award for best first novel, and the Macavity Awards, Best First Mystery Novel for 2010.

Tuesday, September 3 - O Pioneers! by Willa Cather.  When her father dies, Alexandra Bergson takes over the running of the family farm and the raising of her three brothers.  She devotes herself to taming the wild, desolate prairie into orderly and productive fields.  As other immigrant families give up, the Bergsons grow roots and some find love.  This is the first novel in Willa Cather's Great Plains trilogy, followed by The Song of the Lark and My Antonia.  Here she gave first literary voice to Swedish, French and Bohemian homesteaders and celebrated the windswept Nebraskan prairie.

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