Laripin' Good Library Queens Book Club
(Monthly Book Discussion Group)

• Unless there is a holiday the book club normally meets the last Monday of each month at 6:00 pm.

• Refreshments are provided by and served to our book club members.

• Sign-up at the circulation desk or come to a meeting first to see if you're interested .

• Multiple copies of each month's book are available at the circulation desk.

• For more information please call 817-783-7323 or contact us at librarydirector@sbcglobal.net

Upcoming Book Titles:
                      

January

The Island of Eternal Love by Daína Chaviano The Island of Eternal Love is an historical family saga with many plot lines and an atmosphere charged with mystery. Published in 25 languages, it has become the most widely-translated Cuban novel of all time. This is the fourth work in Daína Chaviano's «The Occult Side of Havana» series. It was awarded the Gold Medal for Best Spanish Language Book (Florida Book Awards 2006) "In an effort to escape her solitude in Miami, Cecilia takes refuge in a bar, where she meets Amalia. After this first encounter, Cecilia returns there every night in order to hear, from the woman's own lips, three stories that began a century ago, in different corners of the world: a suicide in China that unleashes a chain of family reactions; a strange curse that pursues certain women in a Spanish town; and a young woman seized from her home on the African coast and transported to an unfamiliar world. These characters' lives will become entwined over time, from Cuba under Spanish colonial rule to the present day. Ardent, predestined loves from the past will gain renewed strength in Cecilia, who is emotionally tied to her Havana birthplace, but who is also obsessed by the mystery of a phantom house that appears and disappears throughout the city of Miami, and whose secret she is attempting to discover." Publisher's description.

 

 

February

The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray. "It has been a year of change since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father a laudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms, where dark magic runs wild. Despite certain peril, Gemma has bound the magic to herself and forged unlikely new alliances. Now, as Gemma approaches her London debut, the time has come to test these bonds. The Order - the mysterious group her mother was once part of - is grappling for control of the realms, as is the Rakshana. Spence's burned East Wing is being rebuilt, but why now? Gemma and her friends see Pippa, but she is not the same. And their friendship faces its gravest trial as Gemma must decide once and for all what role she is meant for." Publisher's description.

March

Cane River by Lalita Tademy Lalita Tademy's riveting family saga chronicles four generations of women born into slavery along the Cane River in Louisiana. It is also a tale about the blurring of racial boundaries: great-grandmother Elisabeth notices an unmistakable "bleaching of the line" as first her daughter Suzette, then her granddaughter Philomene, and finally her great-granddaughter Emily choose (or are forcibly persuaded) to bear the illegitimate offspring of the area's white French planters. In many cases these children are loved by their fathers, and their paternity is widely acknowledged. However, neither state law nor local custom allows them to inherit wealth or property, a fact that gives Cane River much of its narrative drive.

April

206 Bones by Kathy Reichs There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic anthropologists know them intimately, can read in them stories of brief or long lives and use them to reconstruct every kind of violent end. 206 Bones opens with Tempe regaining consciousness and discovering that she is in some kind of very small, very dark, very cold enclosed space. She is bound, hands to feet. Who wants Tempe dead, or at least out of the way, and why? Tempe begins slowly to reconstruct... Tempe and Lieutenant Ryan had accompanied the recently discovered remains of a missing heiress from Montreal to the Chicago morgue. Suddenly, Tempe was accused of mishandling the autopsy -- and the case. Someone made an incriminating phone call. Within hours, the one man with information about the call was dead. Back in Montreal, the corpse of a second elderly woman was found in the woods, and then a third.