50. Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers by Mary Roach

Author: Roach, Mary.

Title Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers

Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2003.

Edition: 1st ed.

Description: 303 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-303).

Subject(s):

• Human experimentation in medicine.
• Dead.
• Human dissection.

Meeting held: January 10, 2008

49. The widow of the south by Robert Hicks

Author: Hicks, Robert, 1951-

Title: The widow of the south

Publisher New York : Warner Books, 2005.

Edition: 1st ed.

Description: 426 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm.

Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-421).

Subject(s):

• McGavock, Caroline E. Winder, 1829-1905 -- Fiction.
• Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Casualties -- Fiction.
• Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals -- Fiction.
• Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
• Franklin, Battle of, Franklin, Tenn., 1864 -- Fiction.
• Plantation owners' spouses -- Fiction.
• Williamson County (Tenn.) -- Fiction.
• Plantation life -- Fiction.
• Cemeteries -- Fiction.
  

Meeting held: December 20, 2007

48. Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress by Dai Sijie

Author: Dai, Sijie, 1954-

Title: Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress / translated from the French by Ina Rilke.

Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, 2002.

Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed.

Description: 184 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject(s):

• Prohibited books -- Fiction.
• Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
• China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Fiction.

Meeting held: November 8, 2007

47. The sewing circles of Herat : a personal voyage through Afghanistan

Author: Lamb, Christina.

Title: The sewing circles of Herat : a personal voyage through Afghanistan

Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, 2002.

Edition: 1st American ed. Description: xvii, 338 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 22cm.

Subject(s):

• Lamb, Christina.
• Afghanistan.

Meeting held: October 18, 2007

46. The keep by Jennifer Egan

Author: Egan, Jennifer.

Title: The keep

Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

Edition: 1st ed.

Description: 239 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject(s):

• Cousins -- Fiction


• Prisoners -- Fiction


• Europe, Eastern -- Fiction.

Meeting to be held: Sept. 5, 2007

45. The book thief by Markus Zusak

Author: Zusak, Markus.

Title: The book thief

Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

Edition: 1st American ed.

Description: 552 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

Subject(s):

• Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.
• Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction.
• Books and reading -- Fiction.
• Storytelling -- Fiction.
• Death -- Fiction.
• Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction.
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Fiction.

Meeting held: August 8, 2007

44. Written on the body by Jeanette Winterson

Author: Winterson, Jeanette,1959-

Title: Written on the body

Edition: 1st American ed.Published

Published: New York : Knopf, 1992.

Description: 190 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject: Mind and body -- Fiction.

Meeting held: June 12, 2007

43. Wild swans : three daughters of China by Jung Chang

Author: Chang, Jung,1952-

Title: Wild swans : three daughters of China

Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1991.

Description: 524 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject(s):

Chang, Jung, 1952-
Women -- China.
China -- History -- 20th century.

Meetings held: April 3 and May 2, 2007

42. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Author: Amis, Kingsley.

Title: Lucky Jim / with an introduction by David Lodge

Published: New York : Penguin, 1992.

Description: 250 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject: College teachers -- England -- Fiction.

Meeting: February 22, 2007

41. The opposite of fate : a book of musings by Amy Tan

Author: Tan, Amy

Title: The opposite of fate : a book of musings

Publisher: New York : Putnam, c2003.

Description: 398 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s):

Tan, Amy.
Tan, Amy -- Family.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Chinese Americans -- Biography.
Free will and determinism.
Chinese American families.
Fiction -- Authorship.
Fate and fatalism.

Meeting: January 24, 2006

40. The joy luck club

Author: Tan, Amy.

Title: The Joy Luck Club

Publisher: New York : Ivy Books, 1990, c1989.

Description: 337 p. ; 18 cm.

Subject(s):

Chinese American women -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Fiction.

Meeting: December 28, 2006

39. Hunger of memory : the education of Richard Rodriguez, an autobiography

Author: Rodriguez, Richard

Title: Hunger of memory : the education of Richard Rodriguez, an autobiography

Subject(s):

Rodriguez, Richard.
Mexican Americans -- California -- Biography.
California -- Biography.
Mexican Americans -- Education.
Education, Bilingual -- United States.
Affirmative action programs -- United States.

Meeting: November 21, 2006

38. The idiot

Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881.

Title: The idiot

Meetings: September 19, 2006 and October 17, 2006

37. Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies

Author: Diamond, Jared M.

Title: Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies

Subject(s):

Social evolution.
Civilization -- History.
Ethnology.
Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
Culture diffusion.

Meeting: August 29, 2006

36. Poppy

Author: Avi, 1937-

Title: Poppy

Subject(s):

Mice -- Fiction.
Owls -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.

Meeting: July 25, 2006

35. The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts

Author: Kingston, Maxine Hong.

Title: The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts

Subject(s):

Kingston, Maxine Hong -- Childhood and youth.
Chinese Americans -- California -- Social life and customs.
United States -- Biography.

Meeting: July 25, 2006

34. The mists of Avalon

Author: Bradley, Marion Zimmer.

Title: The mists of Avalon

Subject(s):

Arthurian romances.
Great Britain -- History -- Anglo Saxon period, 449-1066 -- Fiction.

Meeting: June 29, 2006

33. A people's history of the United States

Author: Zinn, Howard, 1922-

Title: A people's history of the United States : 1492-present

Subject: United States -- History.

Note: We read this book one chapter per month over the course of two years

32. Tell me a riddle

Author: Olsen, Tillie.

Title: Tell me a riddle

Subject(s):

Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Fiction.
Married people -- United States -- Fiction.
Working class -- United States -- Fiction.
Older women -- United States -- Fiction.

Meeting: May 23, 2006

31. Lucy

Author: Kincaid, Jamaica.

Title: Lucy

Subject(s):

West Indian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Women domestics -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.

Meeting: April 22, 2006