Fiction & Non-Fiction Book Discussion List

Man in the Rockefeller Suit : the Astonishing Rise & Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter by Mark Seal
Tuesday, April 17 at 10:00 a.m.
Wednesday, April 18 at 1:00 p.m.
A probing and cinematic exploration of an audacious imposter, Christian Gerhartsreiter, and his "talented Mr. Ripley" story as Clark Rockefeller.
Genre: True Crime

Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
Tuesday, May 15 at 10:00 a.m.
Wednesday, May 16 at 1:00 p.m.
Descending on a family beach house won in a bet years earlier, three generations of women gradually impart difficult respective secrets including a pregnancy, a terrible crush and a deeply held resentment for past misdeeds.
Genre: Women's Lives and Relationships

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Tuesday, June 19 at 10:00 a.m.
Wednesday, June 20 at 1:00 p.m.
Draws on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs, as well as interviews with family members, friends, competitors, and colleagues to offer a look at the co-founder and leading creative force behind the Apple computer company.
Genre: Biographies; Business and Science Writing

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Tuesday, July 17 at 10:00 a.m.
Wednesday, July 18 at 1:00 p.m.
Discovering a magical manuscript in Oxford's library, scholar Diana Bishop, a descendant of witches who has rejected her heritage, inadvertently unleashes a fantastical underworld of daemons, witches and vampires whose activities center around an enchanted treasure.
Genre: Fantasy Fiction; Paranormal Romance

Once Upon a Secret : My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath by Mimi Alford
Tuesday, August 14 at 10:00 a.m.
Wednesday, August 15 at 1:00 p.m.
A former mistress of the thirty fifth President breaks forty years of silence to present a memoir of their eighteen month relationship when she was a college intern at the White House and discuss the effects of keeping silent on her later life.
Genre: Memoir; History

The Sense of An Ending by Julian Barnes
Tuesday, September 18 at 10:00 a.m.
Wednesday, September 19 at 1:00 p.m.
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle age. He's had a career and a single marriage , a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove.
Genre: Literary Fiction

Catherine the Great : Portrait of a Woman by Robert Massie
Tuesday, October 16 at 10:00 a.m.
Wednesday, October 17 at 1:00 p.m.
Presents a reconstruction of the eighteenth century empress's life that covers her efforts to engage Russia in the cultural life of Europe, her creation of the Hermitage, and her numerous scandal free romantic affairs.
Genre: Biography; History

Defending Jacob by William Landay
Tuesday, November 13 at 10:00 a.m.
Wednesday, November 14 at 1:00 p.m.
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. When a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next : his fourteen year old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student. As the crisis reveals how little a father know about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own-between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past he's tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive.
Genre: Legal thriller; Mystery

Moonwalking with Einstein : the Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
Tuesday, December 18 at 10:00 a.m.
Wednesday, December 19 at 1:00 p.m.
Having achieved the seemingly unachievable, becoming a U.S. Memory Champion, Foer shows how anyone with enough training and determination can achieve mastery of their memory.
Genre: Memoirs ; Science Writing