[NFBV-Potomac-Announce] Book Club

[John Halverson]

Hello,

Here are the first four books for our 2023-2024 book club.

Also, let's meet in person at our home on October 4. We will send out a menu for ordering. Of course if you want to meet on Zoom we can accommodate that.

See books below.

October 4, 2023 Patty

The notebook DB43180<https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB43180>
Sparks, Nicholas Reading time: 5 hours, 41 minutes.
Robert Sams A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

Romance

An elderly man reads from a notebook to his wife, who has Alzheimer's disease. Gradually he unfolds the story of a couple who fell in love the summer after high school and were reunited by a fluke fourteen years later. But will his wife recognize her own story? Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1996.

I found questions

November 1, 2023 John

Thunder dog: the true story of a blind man, his guide dog, and the triumph of trust at Ground Zero DB73300<https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB73300>
Hingson, Michael; Flory, Susy Reading time: 7 hours, 19 minutes.
Peter Ganim A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

Biography of Persons with Disabilities
Disability
Animals and Wildlife

Michael Hingson, an executive who worked in the North Tower of the World Trade Center, recounts his escape after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Hingson, blind since birth, describes what he and his guide dog Roselle experienced as she led him down seventy-eight flights of stairs to safety. 2011.

I found questions

December 6, 2023 Nancy

The handmaid's tale DB24695<https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB24695>
Atwood, Margaret Reading time: 10 hours, 48 minutes.
Laura Giannarelli A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

Science Fiction
Bestsellers

Set in the future, the United States of America is now the Republic of Gilead, a fundamentalist Christian theocracy that arose after fanatics shot the president, machine-gunned the Congress and forced the army to declare a state of emergency. To reverse the declining birthrate, women are forcibly recruited into the ranks of Handmaids and are assigned to the Commanders of the Faithful, whose wives are barren. Some strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1986.


I found Questions.

January 3, 2024 Sandy

Beauty in the broken places: a memoir of love, faith, and resilience DB112330<https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB112330>
Pataki, Allison; Woodruff, Lee Reading time: 6 hours, 51 minutes.
Allison Pataki; David Levy; Lee Woodruff

Biography
Health and Medicine

"Five months pregnant, on a flight to their "babymoon," Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange, and watched him suddenly lose consciousness. After an emergency landing, she discovered that Dave-a healthy thirty-year-old athlete and surgical resident-had suffered a rare and life-threatening stroke. Next thing Allison knew, she was sitting alone in the ER in Fargo, North Dakota, waiting to hear if her husband would survive the night. When Dave woke up, though seemingly strong and outwardly intact, he could not carry memories from hour to hour, much less from one day to the next. Allison lost the Dave she knew and loved when he lost consciousness on the plane. Within a few months, she found herself caring for both a newborn and a sick husband, sifting through endless hospital bills and insurance paperwork, and struggling with the fear of what was to come. As a way to make sense of the pain and chaos of their new reality, Allison started to write daily letters to Dave. Not only would she work to make sense of the unfathomable experiences unfolding around her, but her letters would provide Dave with the memories he could not make on his own. She was writing to preserve their past, protect their present, and fight for their future. Those letters became the foundation for this beautiful, intimate memoir. And in the process, she fell in love with her husband all over again. This is a manifesto for living, an ultimately uplifting story about the transformative power of faith and resilience. It's a tale of a husband's turbulent road to recovery, the shifting nature of marriage, and the struggle of loving through pain and finding joy in the broken places." -- Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.


I found questions.


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