January 8, 2008

BEYOND REACH
by Karin Slaughter*

Unlike most of her family, Lena Adams did not succumb to a life of drugs or crime. She left home and became a cop. But when she returns to her home town to help her uncle, Lena finds herself accused of murder.

*Don't miss the opportunity to meet International Best Selling Author Karin Slaughter. She will be the Dinner Guest Speaker at this year's Murder Goes South on Friday January 25, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.

February 5, 2008

TEAM OF RIVALS
by Doris Kearns Goodwin

William Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln were presidential rivals in the election of 1860. Lincoln's win over them earned him their scorn since he was considered an obscure, backwoods, Illinois lawyer. Yet despite their distain for him, Lincoln made the unprecedented move of persuading his rivals to join his administration. And what's more, the three men accepted positions in his cabinet and worked collectively to see this country through one of its darkest periods in history.

March 4, 2008

SINS OF THE FATHERS
by Patricia Sprinkle

Acclaimed mystery writer Patricia Sprinkle joins the Smyrna Book Group in a discussion of her mystery novel: SINS OF THE FATHERS.

To help her friend Flo save her family's cemetery, Katherine Murray travels to Georgia coastal island of Bayard to stop a greedy landowner from developing the land right on top of Flo's ancestors. But the island and its inhabitants have deeply buried secrets and as the women start to uncover them, they soon realize they might be in over their head.

April 1, 2008

National Poetry Month
www.Poets.org

In honor of National Poetry Month and April Fool's Day, the Group will be reading various Limericks*. So bring your favorite limerick or make one up of your own.

*A limerick is a five-line poem in which the first, second and fifth lines rhyme with each other and the third and fourth lines rhyme.
Example: There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said 'It is just as I feared! -
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!'