The October book will be Our Souls at Night.  It is short and Nancy will lead the discussion.

We will assign the rest of the year's books at our meeting.

John
The boys in the boat: nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics DB77138
 Brown, Daniel. Reading time: 17 hours, 24 minutes. 
Read by Kerry Dukin. 

 Sports and Recreation
 Bestsellers

 Recounts the accomplishments of nine working-class athletes from the University of Washington who beat elite teams at home and abroad and won the gold medal for rowing at the 1936 Nazi-orchestrated Berlin Olympics. Bestseller. 2013.


House rules: a novel DB71010
 Picoult, Jodi. Reading time: 18 hours, 59 minutes. 
Read by Joe Peck. 

 Family
 Bestsellers
 Medical Fiction

 Eighteen-year-old Jacob Hunt, who has Asperger's syndrome, lives with his mother and younger brother and has a social-skills tutor. Jacob is obsessed with forensic science. When a murder occurs in Jacob's small world, both his hobby and his condition make him a suspect. Strong language. Bestseller. 2010.


Our souls at night: a novel DB81799
 Haruf, Kent. Reading time: 3 hours, 30 minutes. 
Read by Mark Bramhall. 

 Human Relations

 Seventy-year-old widow Addie Moore asks her neighbor Louis Waters to spend the nights with her in her bed to help with the loneliness they both feel. As the two talk in the night they become close, but they become the subject of gossip in their small town. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2015.


The residence: inside the private world of the White House DB82761
 Brower, Kate Andersen. Reading time: 10 hours, 52 minutes. 
Read by Carol Jacobanis. 

 Biography
 U.S. History

 Journalist Kate Andersen Brower offers an intimate account of daily life in the White House for its service staff who tend to the needs of the First Family. Brower includes first-person anecdotes, interviews with staff, and archival research to illuminate the details of life in the White House. Some strong language. 2015.


I am Malala: how one girl stood up for education and changed the world DB79878
 Yousafzai, Malala; McCormick, Patricia; Vaswani, Neela. Reading time: 4 hours, 55 minutes. 
Read by Neela Vaswani. 

 Biography

 Memoir of corecipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Recounts how Malala risked her life for the right to go to school. Raised in a changing Pakistan, Malala stood up against the Taliban and remained an activist for girls' education. Commercial audiobook. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2014.


The Rosie project: a novel DB78150
 Simsion, Graeme C. Reading time: 8 hours, 12 minutes. 
Read by Guy Williams. 

 Humor
 Bestsellers
 Romance

 Socially stunted geneticist Don Tillman embarks on an endeavor he calls the Wife Project. As he quantifies the qualities of a perfect wife, he encounters Rosie, who seeks Don's help in identifying her real father. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2013.


Afraid of the dark DB79462
 Grippando, James. Reading time: 14 hours, 16 minutes. 
Read by Erik Sandvold. 

 Suspense Fiction
 Legal Fiction

 Three years earlier, Sergeant Vince Paulo held his best friend's dying daughter as she implicated her boyfriend Jamal--and then a blast blinded Vince. Now Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck has been asked to defend Jamal, who is accused of terrorist activity. Strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2011.


The sixth man DB73352
 Baldacci, David. Reading time: 12 hours, 40 minutes. 
Read by Martha Harmon Pardee. 

 Suspense Fiction
 Bestsellers