Sept. 9th ~ The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
This striking debut novel is homage to old-fashioned boys-own adventure stories, and unfolds like a Robert Louis Stevenson tale retold amid the hardscrabble squalor of Colonial New England.
Discussion Leader: Dom Amuso

October 14th ~ Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Thirteen linked tales from Strout present a heart-wrenching, penetrating portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers living lives of quiet grief intermingled with flashes of human connection. The opening Pharmacy focuses on terse, dry junior high school teacher Olive Kitteridge and her gregarious pharmacist husband, Henry, both of whom have survived the loss of a psychologically damaged parent, and both of whom suffer painful attractions to co-workers.
Discussion Leader: Roseanne Rosenberg

Nov. 11th ~ The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
A literary thriller with references to (and including characters from) The Great Gatsby, Bohjalian takes readers on a haunting journey through one woman's obsession with uncovering a dark secret. We think Bohjalian fans will be thrilled with this compelling and unforgettable read.
Discussion Leader: Betty Wagreich

Dec. 9th ~ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The letters comprising this small charming novel begin in 1946, when single, 30-something author, Juliet Ashton (nom de plume Izzy Bickerstaff) writes to her publisher to say she is tired of covering the sunny side of war and its aftermath. When Guernsey farmer, Dawsey Adams, finds Juliet's name in a used book and invites articulate and not-so-articulate neighbors to write Juliet with their stories, the book's epistolary circle widens, putting Juliet back in the path of war stories.
Discussion Leader: Linda Glass

Jan. 13th ~ Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Some failures lead to phenomenal successes and this American nurse's unsuccessful attempt to climb K2, the world's second tallest mountain, is one of them. Dangerously ill when he finished his climb in 1993, Mortenson was sheltered for seven weeks by the small Pakistani village of Korphe; in return, he promised to build the impoverished town's first school, a project that grew into the Central Asia Institute, which has since constructed more than 50 schools across rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Discussion Leader: Joyce Wellenkamp and Gloria Foster

Feb. 10th ~ East of Eden by John Steinbeck
It is a symbolic recreation of the biblical story of Cain and Abel woven into a history of California's Salinas Valley. With East of Eden, Steinbeck hoped to reclaim his standing as a major novelist, but his broad depictions of good and evil come at the expense of subtlety in characterization and plot and it was not a critical success.
Discussion Leader: Fred Hewitt