[NFBOH-Cleveland] Suggested Selections for CSC Book Discussion: August 2019 thru June 2020

[Ali Benmerzouga]

Thanks a lot Cheryl for the Suggested Selections for CSC Book Discussion. Greatly appreciated!

As I understand from your email, there is no book discussion for July, am I correct?

I will see if I can suggest a book before July 15th.

Again, thanks a lot for all the time and effort you are putting to keep this great activity and wonderful group going.

Have a happy 4th!

Ali


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Subject: Suggested Selections for CSC Book Discussion: August 2019 thru June 2020

Hello Everyone! I hope you are having a great summer!
Please take a look at the  list below. Feel free to make suggestions and corrections.
We should send this to the library by July 15th.  Thank you,  Happy Reading! CF

August:

Look alive twenty-five: a Stephanie Plum novel DB92905 Evanovich, Janet. Reading time: 6 hours, 48 minutes.
Read by Lorelei King.

Humor
Mystery and Detective Stories

The Red River Deli in Trenton is world-famous for its pastrami and coleslaw--and for its disappearing managers. Over the past month, three have vanished from the face of the earth, each leaving behind only one shoe. Now the deli's newest manager is Stephanie Plum.
Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018.



September: Michelle Obama-Becoming

October:  Visit Maltz Museum/ Lunch?

Leonard Bernstein: an American musician DB80543


November:

Kiss the girls: a novel DB39471
Patterson, James. Reading time: 10 hours, 41 minutes.
Read by Chuck Benson.

Suspense Fiction

When Washington, D.C., detective Alex Cross of Along Came a Spider (DB
35894) learns his niece Naomi is missing, he heads for North Carolina.
Naomi is one of a group of women thought kidnapped by a man calling himself Casanova. When one woman escapes and describes a secret house in the woods, the FBI discovers links between Casanova and the Gentleman Caller serial killer in California. Strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sex.
Download Kiss the girls: a novel


December:

The hare with amber eyes: a hidden inheritance DB74286 De Waal, Edmund. Reading time: 10 hours, 34 minutes.
Read by Mark Ashby.

Arts
Biography
Family

British ceramic artist relates tracing his family's history through the ownership of a collection of netsuke, ornamental Japanese carvings, which he inherited in 1994. Describes the wealthy Ephrussi clan's lives in Vienna and Paris and their origins as Jewish merchants from Odessa, Russia. 2010.


January:

Turning point: a novel DB94709
Steel, Danielle. Reading time: 9 hours, 8 minutes.
Read by Todd McLaren.

Human Relations
Romance

Four trauma doctors from San Francisco are chosen for a unique training program exchanging expertise with their counterparts at a Parisian hospital. Paris opens up both professional and personal possibilities for the Americans, until an act of mass violence changes everything. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019.


February: Discussion and Movie?

Devil in a blue dress DB32935
Mosley, Walter. Reading time: 6 hours, 22 minutes.
Read by Phil Regensdorf.

Mystery and Detective Stories

Los Angeles, 1948. Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran is out of work and in need of enough money to pay his mortgage. He agrees to help a shady white mobster find a mysterious white woman dressed in blue.
Finding the woman is easy--she frequents black jazz clubs--but the information Rawlins uncovers in his search puts his life in jeopardy.
Some descriptions of sex.
Download Devil in a blue dress


March:

Under red skies: three generations of life, loss, and hope in China DB95048 Kan, Karoline. Reading time: 8 hours, 44 minutes.
Read by Allison Hiroto.

Biography
World History and Affairs

Former New York Times reporter recounts the stories of three generations of women in her Chinese family who navigated poverty and political unrest. Discusses her grandmother s struggles during the Great Famine, her mother s defiance of the country's one-child policy, her cousin s factory work, and her own ambitions as a Chinese millennial. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2019.


April:

Contact: a novel DB22975
Sagan, Carl. Reading time: 14 hours, 30 minutes.
Read by Pam Ward.

Science Fiction; Bestsellers

A speculative adventure of the first encounter of humankind with intelligent life from beyond our solar system. Brilliant astrophysicist Ellie Arroway of Project Argus is instrumental in decoding the first radio signal received from space, and she persuades world leaders not to consider the message a threat. Bestseller 1985.
Download Contact: a novel




May:

Bananas: how the United Fruit Company shaped the world DB67714 Chapman, Peter. Reading time: 7 hours, 8 minutes.
Read by Jake Williams.

Consumer Issues, Personal Finance
Business and Economics

Journalist examines the rise and fall of United Fruit, a multinational corporation founded in 1899. Chronicles the company's alleged history of bribery, political strong-arming, and economic mismanagement throughout Central America. Examines United Fruit's links to U.S.
politicians and the CIA and involvement in regional coups. Some strong language. 2007.


June: This author and subject were requested.

Jody Picoult-Plain Truth

PS. Forgive the typos and other errors, lol!


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Wishing You All the Best,

Cheryl E. Fields


A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
--D. Elton Trueblood