Talkeetna Library Breakfast Book Club Reading List 2015/16
Book club meets at the library the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 9:30am for book reviewing and a potlatch
breakfast. Coffee is provided.
Happy Reading!!
The Wind is not a River by Brian Payton
Read between August 11th - Sept 7th
Book Club Discussion Tue Sept 8th at 9:30am
A gripping tale of survival and an epic love story in which a husband and wife–separated by
the only battle of World War II to take place on American soil–fight to reunite in Alaska's
starkly beautiful Aleutian Islands…
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Read between Sept 8th - Oct 12th
Book Club Discussion Tue Oct 13th at 9:30am
The poverty stricken Reds are commoners, living under the rule of the Silvers, elite warriors
with god-like powers.
To Mare Barrow, a 17-year-old Red girl from The Stilts, it looks like nothing will ever change.
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Read between Oct 13th - Nov 9th
Book Club Discussion Tue Nov 10th at 9:30am
A remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at
once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and
charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and
how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her
mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the
responsibility of raising a family.
Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Read between Nov 10th - Dec 7th
Book Club Discussion Tue Dec 8th at 9:30am
Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her
old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: a sensitive child once contacted by voices
she knew only as “the radio people,” Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as
she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality
until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life…..
Talkeetna Library Breakfast Book Club Reading List 2015/16
Book club meets at the library the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 9:30am for book reviewing and a potlatch
breakfast. Coffee is provided.
Happy Reading!!
Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd
Read between Dec 8th - Jan 11th
Book Club Discussion Tue Jan 12th at 9:30am
Hetty "Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for
life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The
Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large
in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.
Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Read between Jan 12th - Feb 8th
Book Club Discussion Tue Feb 9th at 9:30am
A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the
coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for
Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes
clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous.
They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—
impossible though it seems—they may still be alive….
Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir
Read between Feb 9th - March 7th
Book Club Discussion Tue March 8th at 9:30am
Having proven herself a gifted and engaging novelist with her portrayals of Queen Elizabeth
I in The Lady Elizabeth and Lady Jane Grey in Innocent Traitor, New York Times bestselling
author Alison Weir now harks back to the twelfth century with a sensuous and tempestuous
tale that brings vividly to life England’s most passionate—and destructive—royal couple:
Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Henry II.