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PageTurners Book Group
Please join us the second Thursday of each month
in the Main Library Board Room from 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Registration is required. Call 480-644-5899.
Book Group copies will be provided to the first 10
registrants.
Our group reads a variety of fiction and an
occasional nonfiction title.
Pick up your first book and find out more
about the group.
 The
History of Love by Nicole Krauss
"Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit
longer, tapping his radiator each evening to let his
upstairs neighbor know he's still alive, drawing
attention to himself at the milk counter of
Starbucks. But life wasn't always like this: sixty
years ago, in the Polish village where he was born,
Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And although he
doesn't know it, that book also survived: it crossed
oceans and generations, and changed lives."
"Fourteen-year-old Alma was named after a character
in that book. She has her hands full keeping track
of her little brother Bird (who thinks he might be
the Messiah) and taking copious notes in her book,
How to Survive in the Wild Volume Three. But when a
mysterious letter arrives in the mail she undertakes
an adventure to find her namesake and save her
family."--BOOK JACKET.
 Atonement
by Ian McEwan
In this rich novel by the author of the Booker
Prize-winning novel "Amsterdam, " a young girl
unwittingly tells a tale that turns her family
upside down. Brilliant and utterly enthralling in
its depiction of childhood, love and war, England
and class, "Atonement" is at its center a
profound--and profoundly moving--exploration of
shame and forgiveness, of atonement and the
difficulty of absolution.
 These
is My Words by Nancy E. Turner
Inspired by the author’s original family memoirs,
this absorbing story introduces us to the questing,
indomitable Sarah Prine, one of the most memorable
women ever to survive and prevail in the Arizona
Territory of the late 1800s. As a child, a fiery
young woman, and finally a caring mother, Sarah
forges a life as full and as fascinating as our
deepest needs, our most secret hopes and our
grandest dreams. She rides Indian-style and shoots
with deadly aim, greedily devours a treasure trove
of leatherbound books, downs fire, flood, Comanche
raids and other mortal perils with the unique
courage that forged the character of the American
West.
Rich in authentic details of daily life and
etched with striking character portraits of very
different pioneer families, this action-packed novel
is also the story of a powerful, enduring love
between Sarah and the dashing cavalry officer
Captain Jack Elliot. Neither the vast distances
traveled nor the harsh and killing terrains could
quench the passion between them, and the loss and
loneliness both suffer only strengthen their need
for each other.
This title is the OneBookAZ 2008 book selection.
 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a
handmaid. She is hoping the commander makes her
pregnant because she is only valued if her ovaries
are viable. Offred can remember the years before,
when she had a job of her own, a husband, and a
child, but all of that is gone now.
 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Catch-22 is like no other novel we have ever read.
It has its own style, its own rationale, its own
extraordinary character. It moves back and forth
from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny
and strangely affecting.
 The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim
Edwards This riveting family drama from the author
of the short story collection "The Secrets of a Fire
King" explores every mother's silent fears--losing a
child and that the child grows up without her. |
