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Milford Town Library Senior Book Club

Next up:
The Mistress's Daughter,
by A.M. Homes

Mistress’s Daughter by AM Homes will be discussed on May 20th at the Senior Center.

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Books read and discussed by Senior Book Group-established August 1999

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The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (October 2007) River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (August 2007) Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue, by Edna O'Brien (July 2007) Summer After Dark, by Doris Lessing (June 2007) Blindness
by Jose Saramago
(March 2001)
Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (April 2007) Triangle, by Katherine Weber (May 2007) Snow, by Orhan Pamuk
(January 2007)
Wings of the Dove by Henry James (October 2006)  
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (March 2007) A Doll's House, by Henrik Isben (February 2007) About Schmidt by Louis Begley
(August 2006)
The Life & Loves of a She Devil
by Fay Weldon (June 2006)
 
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (September 2006) Hundred Dollar Holiday, by Bill McKibben (December 2006) Garlic & Sapphires: the secret life of a critic in disguise by Ruth Reichl (September 2005) Oscar & Lucinda by Peter Carey (May 2006)  
Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos (April 2006) My Life in France, by Julia Child (November 2006) Heart, You Bully You Punk
by Leah Hager Cohen (July 2004)

Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys (September 2004)

 

My Antonia by Willa Cather
(February 2006)

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by Tony Horowitz (July 2006)

No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
by Alexander McCall Smith
(May 2004)

Galileo's Daughter
by Dava Sobel (April 2004)
And the Ladies of the Club
by Helen Hooven Santmyer
(August 2005)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (March 2006) Grave Circle: An Ivory Tower Mystery
by David Nolta (October 2003)
Sometimes I Dream in Italian
by Rita Ciresi (January 2004)
 

Empire Falls
by Richard Russo (March 2005)

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
(January 2006)
On the Rez
by Ian Frazier (September 2003)
   
Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates (November 2004)
Christmas, Present by Jacquelyn Mitchard (December 2005) Lily of the Valley
by Suzanne Strempek Shea
(August 2003)
   
The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd (June 2004)

The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (November 2005)

The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
by Roddy Doyle
(June 2003)

   
When the Emperor Was Divine
by Julie Otsuka (November 2003)
Dark Tide: the great Boston molasses flood of 1919 by Stephen Puelo (October 2002) Do Not Go Gentle
by Ann Hood (May 2003)
   
Ella Minnow Pea
by Mark Dunn (November 2002)

Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman
by Elizabeth Buchan (July 2005)

When I Was Puerto Rican
by Esmeralda Santiago (March 2003)
   
Charms for the Easy Life
by Kay Gibbons (December 2001)
The Piano Tuner
by Daniel Mason (May 2005)
Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis deBernieres (October 2002)
   
If He Hollers Let Him Go
by Chester Himes (November 2001)
'Tis
by Frank McCourt (April 2005)
Typical American
by Gish Jen (September 2002)
   
To Kill A Mockingbird
by Harper Lee (September 2001)
Women in Love
by D.H. Lawrence (February 2005)
Bronze Horseman
by Paullina Simons (July 2002)
   
  Banishing Verona
by Margot Livesey (January 2005)

The Siege
by Helen Dunmore (June 2002)

   
  Christmas Selections -- A Child's Christmas in Wales (Dylan Thomas): Mitford Snowmen (Jan Karon); One Christmas (Truman Capote) (December 2004) Confessions of a Shopaholic
by Sophie Kinsella (May 2002)
   
  Mama Make Up Her Mind: and Other Dangers of Southern Living
by Bailey White (October 2004)
Durable Goods
by Elizabeth Berg (April 2002)
   
  The Devil in White City
by Erik Larson (August 2004)
Shovel & the Loom
by Carl Friedman (March 2002)
   
  Cold Sassy Tree
by Olive Burns (March 2004)
The End of the Affair
by Graham Greene (February 2002)
   
 

A Gathering of Old Men
by Ernest Gaines (February 2004)

Human Voices
by Penelope Fitzgerald (January 2002)
   
  Skipping Christmas
by John Grisham (December 2003)
God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy (October 2001)
   
  Sea Glass
by Anita Shreve (July 2003)

The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant (August 2001)

   
  The Hours
by Michael Cunningham (April 2003)

In the Fall
by Jeffrey Lent (July 2001)

   
 

Eva Moves the Furniture
by Margot Livesey (February 2003)
(author attended the discussion, courtesy of the Boston Herald)

To See and See Again
by Tara Bahrampour (May 2001)

   
  Forty Days of Musa Dagh
by Franz Werfel (January 2003)
House of Splendid Isolation
by Edna O'Brien (April 2001)
   
 

A Christmas Memory
by Truman Capote (December 2002)

House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros (February 2001)
   
  No More Words
by Reeve Lindbergh (August 2002)
My Kitchen Wars
by Betty Fussell (January 2001)
   
  The All of It
by Jeannette Haien (June 2001)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
by Julia Alvarez (December 2000)
   
  Selling the Lite of Heaven
by Suzanne Strempek Shea
(August 2000)
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coehlo (November 2000)
   
  Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson (July 2000)
A Morbid Taste for Bones
by Ellis Peters (October 2000)
   
  Elegy for Iris
by John Bayley (February 2000)
One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient
by David Biro (September 2000)
   
  Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom (October 1999)
Einstein's Dreams
by Alan Lightman (June 2000)
   
  Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
by Rebecca Wells (August 1999)
Shrub: the Short by Happy Political Life of George W. Bush
by Molly Ivins/Lou Dubose (May 2000)
   
    Seat of the Soul
by Gary Kukav (April 2000)
   
    On the Road
by Jack Kerouac (March 2000)
   
    Hillary's Choice
by Gail Sheehy (January 2000)
   
    The Christmas Box
Richard Paul Evans (December 1999)
   
    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J.K. Rowling (November 1999)
   
   

Stones for Ibarra
by Harriet Doerr (September 1999)

   
         
A stack of books