Author: Wayne Grady How far would a son go to belong? And how far would a father go to protect him? With his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes the stage. It’s World War II, and while stationed in St. John’s, […]
About Our Book Club
Located in beautiful St. John’s, Newfoundland, our book club was founded in 2007. Our members are as diverse and interesting as our book selections which makes for the most lively discussions over a glass of wine and good food.
Through our book club we have read books we might not otherwise have read, we have made friends we might not otherwise have met and have had the most wonderful, memorable evenings with both ♥♥♥
These are the books we've most recently discussed along with a little summary of our book club discussion.
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Author: Will Ferguson Will Ferguson takes readers deep into the labyrinth of lies that is “419,” the world’s most insidious Internet scam. A car tumbles through darkness down a snowy ravine. A woman without a name walks out of a dust storm in sub-Saharan Africa. And in the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours […]
Midwives
Author: Chris Bohjalian “The time is 1981, and Sibyl Danforth has been a dedicated midwife in the rural community of Reddington, Vermont, for fifteen years. But one treacherous winter night, in a house isolated by icy roads and failed telephone lines, Sibyl takes desperate measures to save a baby’s life. She performs an emergency Caesarean […]
Far to Go
“In Far to Go, one of our most accomplished young writers takes us inside the world of an affluent Jewish family in Prague during the lead-up to Hitler’s invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 1939, Pavel and Anneliese Bauer are secular Jews whose lives are turned upside down by the arrival of Hitler.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
“Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher
February
by Lisa Moore – “In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine’s Day storm. All eighty-four men aboard died. February is the story of Helen O’Mara, one of those left behind when her husband, Cal, drowns on the rig.
Under the Hawthorne Tree
by Ai Mi – “Yichang municipality, Hubei province, China, early 1970s. High-school student Jingqiu is one of many educated urban youth sent to the countryside to be “re-educated” under a dictate from Chairman Mao.
Everybody Has Everything
by Katrina Onstad – “Combining a pitch-perfect, whip-smart dissection of contemporary urban life with a fresh and perceptive examination of our individual and collective ambivalence towards parenthood,
The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window & Disappeared
by Jonas Jonasson – “After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he’s still in good health.
The High Road
by Terry Fallis “A brilliant follow-up to the Stephen Leacock Award-winner The Best Laid Plans, this deeply funny satire continues the story of Honest Angus McLintock, an amateur politician who dares to do the unthinkable:
The Memory Palace
by Mira Bartok “When piano prodigy Norma Herr was healthy, she was the most vibrant personality in the room. But as her schizophrenic episodes became more frequent and more dangerous,
The Shack
by William P. Young “Mackenzie Allen Phillips’s youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.
