Winter 2005 Reading List

The Christmas Thief by Mary Higgins Clark & Carol Higgins Clark
Emma by Jane Austen
The Secret of Ararat by Tim LaHaye
Light On Snow by Anita Shreve
When Twilight Comes by Gwynne Forster
Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke
River's Edge by Terri Blackstock
My Life by Bill Clinton
Dressed to Die by Beverly Connor
Night of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy
Any Place I Hang My Hat by Susan Isaacs
Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley
Good Grief by Lolly Winston
Who Let That Killer in the House by Patricia Sprinkle
Mirrored Life by Anita Bunkley
Family Matters by Mistry Rohinton
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwartz
Prince of Beverly Hills by Stuart Woods
Yankee Doodle Dead by Carolyn G. Hart
Too Much of a Good Thing by Kimberla Lawson Roby
   

Winter 2005

The Five People You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom

Eddie has spent most of his life as a maintenance man at the Ruby Pier Amusement Park. He feels he has accomplished nothing in his 80 years on earth. When a ride at the park malfunctions, Eddie is killed trying to save the life of a young girl. Eddie then wakes up in heaven and meets the most surprising array of people who help him understand the meaning of his life.

Spring 2005 Reading List

Before You Know Kindness by Christopher Bohjalian
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
The Darling by Russell Banks
Demon Rumm by Sandra Brown
Double Shot by Diane Mott Davidson
The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
Family Blessings by Fern Michaels
Forever by Pete Hamil
Hallowed Bones by Carolyn Haines
Hear No Evil by James Grippando
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
Life Expectancy by Dean R. Koontz
Loop Group by Larry McMurty
Mount Vernon Love Story by Mary Higgins Clark
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
    

Spring 2005

The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown

Famed symbologist, Robert Langdon, teams up with noted French Cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, (the granddaughter of a murdered museum curator) to untangle the cryptic clues left behind at the murder scene. In the course of their investigation, the duo learns of a secret society that has existed since the days of Christ. But more, they find a long list of famous people of the art, science and literary world who were once members of this secret set-names like Sir Isaac Newton, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Victor Hugo.
   

Summer 2005 Reading List

Afterburn by Zane
Arabian Nights and Days by Naguib Mahfouz
Beyond Tuesday Morning by Karen Kingsburg
Blood on the Leaves by Jeff Stetson
Chasing Dragon by Domenic Stansberry
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Don Quixote by Cervantes
The Enemy by Lee Child
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille Gulliano
Getting Mother's Body by Suzan Lori Parks
Hidden River by Adrian McKinty
High Lonesome by Louis L'mour
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith
The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini
The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith
Not a Sparrow Falls by Linda Nichols
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perfect Madness by Judith Warner
A Salty Piece of Land by Jimmy Buffett
Shadows of the Canyon by Tracie Peterson
Skelton Man by Tony Hillerman
State of Fear by Michael Crichton
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon
     

Summer 2005

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
by Alexander McCall Smith

Precious Ramotswe is unconventional, outspoken and not at all what you would expect from an unmarried woman living in Botswana. Precious inherited her beloved father's cattle, but she sold them and used the money to set up The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. When clients start showing up on her doorstep, Precious finds herself at the center of a very successful business.

Fall 2005 Reading List

Almost Midnight by Michael Cuneo
Beach Girls by Luanne Rice
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Company Man by Joseph Finders
Crusader's Cross by James Lee Burke
Divine Evil by Nora Roberts
Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
Hissy Fit by Mary Kay Andrews
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
The Life Guard by James Patterson
Magic Seeds by V. S. Naipaul
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Now is the Time to Open Your Heart by Alice Walker
Property by Brian Keith Jackson
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Sappho's Leap by Erica Jong
Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
Trace by Patricia Cornwell
Train by Pete Dexter
Trance by Christopher Sorrentino
Until I Find You by John Irving
Zorro by Isabel Allende
   

Fall 2005

The Mysterious Flam Queen of Loana
by Umberto Eco

When Giambattista Boldoni (better known as Yambo) wakes from a coma after he has suffered a stroke, the 59 year old antique book dealer finds that he had lost his memory of just about everything—except the words in all the stories, poems and novels he has read throughout his life. But to reclaim his own identity, Yambo leaves his wife, Paola and travels alone to his boyhood home of Solara. There he discovers himself as a boy growing up in the political turmoil of late 1930 and early 1940 Italy.