BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP -- 7:15 P.M., 2ND MONDAY  -    Updated:  May 8, 2008 =================================================

DATE ......... TITLE ..........AUTHOR =================================================

Night Book Discussion Group -- meeting 2nd Mondays at 7:15 p.m.

01-08-90 ..... The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
02-12-90 ..... Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng.
03-12-90 ..... Love In The Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
04-09-90 ..... Dungeon Master by William Dear
05-14-90 ..... Joanna's Husband and David's Wife by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
06-11-90 ..... Riding The Iron Rooster by Train Through China by Paul Theroux.
07-09-90 ..... E Is For Evidence by Sue Grafton
08-13-90 ..... A Nun In The Closet by Dorothy Gilman
09-10-90 ..... The Ragman's Son by Kirk Douglas
10-08-90 ..... The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tam
11-12-90 ..... The Cat Who Played Brahms by Lilian Jackson Braun
12-10-90 ..... The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

01-14-91 ..... Somebody Else's Kids by Torey L. Hayden
02-11-91 ..... Black Mountain Breakdown by Lee Smith
03-11-91 ..... Far from Home:Families of the Westward Journey by L.Schlissel
04-08-91 ..... Goddesses In Everywoman by Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
05-13-91----- Pot-Luck supper -- pick books for next year hostess: Susan Anderson
06-10-91 ..... Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather
07-08-91 ..... The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
08-12-91 ..... You Just Don't Understand by Deborah Tanner, PhD
09-09-91 ..... Wild Captive Fire by Caitlin Adams Bryan
10-14-91 ..... What I Saw At The Revolution by Peggy Noonan
11-11-91 ..... The Haj by Leon Uris
12-09-91 ..... Barbara Walter: Unauthorized Biography by Jerry Oppenheimer

01-13-92 ..... Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burn.
02-10-92 ..... The Yellow Wind by David Grossman
03-09-92 ..... Malice In Maggody by Joan Hess
04-13-92 ---- Pot-Luck supper -- pick books for next year hostess: Susan Anderson
05-11-92 ..... My Secret History by Paul Theroux
06-08-92 ..... Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes
07-13-92 ..... Patience of A Saint by Andrew Greeley
08-10-92 ..... Hot Flashes by Barbara Raskin
09-14-92 ..... Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
10-13-92 ..... How To Make An American Quilt by Whitney Otto
11-09-92 ..... Autobiography of Malcomn X, as told to Alex Haley
12-14-92 ..... I Know Why The Caged Birds Sing by Maya Angelou

01-11-93 ..... The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
02-08-93 ..... The Secret Pilgram by John LeCarre
03-08-93 ..... In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action by Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy
04-12-93 ..... Faithful Attraction by Andrew M. Greeley.
05-10-93 ---- Pot-Luck supper -- pick books for next year hostess: Susan Anderson
06-14-93 ..... Picture Miss Seton by Heron Carvic
07-12-93 ..... The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty.
08-09-93 ..... Trial By Jury by Stephen Brill
09-13-93 ..... A Time To Kill by John Grisham
10-11-93 ..... Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
11-08-93 ..... Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
12-13-93 ..... The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

01-10-94 ..... Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
02-14-94 ..... A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
03-14-94 ..... Truman by David McCullough
04-11-94 ..... Hour of The Hunter by J. A. Jance
05-09-94 ---- Pot-Luck supper -- pick books for next year hostess: Susan Anderson
06-13-94 ..... The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
07-09-94 ---- Sat. - EXTRA ACTIVITY
                      Michael Connelly and Paul Bishop will sign their books 5-6 p.m. at The
                      Poisoned Pen,  7100D E. Main   St., Scottsdale; Connelly & and Bishop will be
                      joined by two Phoenix police officers for "The Cop Shop" 6-7:30 p.m. at Berzins &
                      Roberts Fine Arts, 7106 E. Main Scottsdale. Connelly will discuss his work and
                      answer questions, then the three police officers will "integrate" him. A nearby
                      restaurant will present all attendees with discount coupons for dinner after
                      the program.
07-11-94 - SEMINAR: "A Gay & Lesbian Mystery Scene" 7:15 to 8:30 p.m., Framers Workshop,
                            Scottsdale, presented by The Poisoned Pen with authors,   Ellen Hart,
                            Michael Nava, and Sandra Scoppettone.
08-08-94 ---- meeting cancelled, hostess' A/C not working ----
09-12-94 ..... Aunt Dimity's Death by Nancy Atherton
10-10-94 ..... Did My Mama Love To Dance? edited by Geeta Kothari
11-14-94 ..... Who Killed My Daughter? by Lois Duncan
12-12-94 ..... Indian Givers: How The Indians of The Americas Transformed The World
                         by Jack Weatherford

01-09-95 ..... Venus Envy by Rita Mae Brown
02-13-95 ..... Mexico by James A. Michener
03-13-95 ..... Pigs In Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
04-10-95 ..... Scorpion In The Sea by P. T. Deutermann
05-08-95 ..... Pot-Luck supper -- pick books for next year
06-12-95 ..... Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover by
                        Anthony Summers
07-10-95 ..... A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
08-14-95 ..... You're the Jury: Solve Twelve Real-Life Court Cases Along with the
                         Juries Who Decided Them by Judge Norbert  Ehrenfreund
09-11-95 ..... America: What Went Wrong? by Donald Bartlett and James Steele
10-09-95 ..... The Secret History by Donna Tartt
11-13-95 ..... The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
12-11-95 ..... The Road From Coorain by Jill Ker Conway

01-08-96 ..... A Simple Plan by Scott Smith
02-12-96 ..... All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
03-11-96 ..... Tombstone Courage by J. A. Jance
04-08-96 ..... The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
05-13-96 ---- Pot-Luck supper -- pick books for next year
06-10-96 ..... Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah and
                        A.Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth
07-08-96 ..... White Butterfly by Walter Mosley
08-12-96 ..... The Fourth Procedure by Stanley Pottinger
09-09-96 ..... Emma by Jane Austen
10-14-96 ..... Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
11-11-96 ..... Primary Colors by Anonymous
12-09-96 ..... The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans.

01-13-97 ..... Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
02-10-97 ..... Red Azalea by Anchee Min
03-10-97 ..... Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining by Family Court
                        Judge Judy Sheindlin
04-14-97 ..... Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterso
05-12-97 ..... Pot-Luck supper -- pick books for next year
06-09-97 ..... The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
07-14-97 ..... Nobody's Baby But Mine by Susan Eliz. Philliips
08-11-97 ..... In The Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country by Kim Barnes
09-08-97 ..... Sleeper Spy by William Safire
10-13-97 ..... The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly.
11-10-97 ..... First Ladies by Margaret Truman
12-08-97 ..... The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

01-12-98 ..... Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
02-09-98 ..... The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
                         by James McBride
03-08-98 ..... Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
04-13-98 ..... Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
05-11-98 ---- Pot-Luck supper -- pick books for next year, hostess Bobbie Skinner
06-08-98 ..... A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
07-13-98 ..... Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy
08-10-98 ..... Locked In The Cabinet by Robert Reich
09-14-98 ..... The Fallen Man by Tony Hillerman
10-12-98 ..... Necessary Losses by Judith Viorst
11-09-98 ..... Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau
12-14-98 ..... The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

01-13-99 ..... The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
02-08-99 ..... Mystery Ride by Robert Boswell
03-08-99 ..... Murder in Perspective by Keith Miles
04-12-99 ..... These is my Words by Nancy E. Turner
05-10-99 ---- Pot-Luck supper--pick books for July 1999-June 2000, hostess Susan Anderson
06-14-99 ..... The Liar's Club by Mary Karr
07-12-99 ..... Hearts and Bones by Margaret Lawrence
08-09-99 ..... The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
09-13-99 .....  Still Me by Christopher Reeve
10-11-99 .....  The Gun Runner's Daughter by Neil Gordon
11-08-99 .....  What We Keep by Elizabeth Berg
12-13-99 .....  Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man & The Last Great Lesson
                          by Mitch Albom

01-10-00 .....  The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
02-14-00 .....  Firdbird by Janice Graham
03-13-00 .....  We Are Our Mother's Daughters by Cokie Roberts
04-10-00 .....  The Wilder Sisters by Jo-Ann Mapson
05-08-00 .....  Pot-Luck supper -- pick books for July 2000 through June 2001
06-12-00 .....  Another Country: Navigating The Emotional Terrain of Our Elders by
                          Mary Pipher, Ph.D.
07-10-00 .....  Lost in Translation by Nicole Mones
08-14-00 .....  The Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White by
                          Shirlee Taylor Haizlip
09-11-00 .....  The Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Billie Letts
10-09-00 .....  Map of The World by Jane Hamilton
11-13-00 .....  The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz
12-11-00 .....  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling

01-08-01 .....  Endangered Species by Nevada Barr
02-12-01 .....  Transfer of Power by Vince Flynn
03-12-01 .....  Fat Man in The Middle Seat by Jack Germond
04-09-01 .....  Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson by Jan Jarboe Russell
05-14-01 .....  Pot-Luck supper -- pick books for July 2001 through June 2002
06-11-01 .....  Faith of My Fathers by John S. McCain
07-09-01 .....  My Spy: Memoir of a CIA Wife by Bina Cady Kiyonaga
08-13-01 .....  Always Standing By by J. B. Smith
09-10-01 .....  One Thousand White Women The Journals of May Dobb by Jim
                          Fergus (fiction)
10-08-01 .....  The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer w/Susan Dworkin
11-12-01 .....   She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb
12-10-01 .....   Hoopi Shoopi Donna by Suzanne Strempek Shea

01-14-02 .....   Breaking The Silence by Diane Chamberlain
02-11-02 .....   Hen Frigates: Wives of Merchant Captains Under Sail by Joan Druett
03-11-02 .....   House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
04-08-02 .....   Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South
                          Pole by Dr. Jerri Nielsen
05-13-02 .....   Pot-Luck supper -- Pick books for July 2002 thru June 2003
06-10-02 .....   A Conspiracy of Paper by Davis Liss
07-08-02 .....   Book: Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped
                                       Our Recent History by Kati Marton
08-12-02 .....   Desert Noir by Betty Webb
09-09-02 .....   Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
10-14-02 .....   The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
11-11-02 .....   Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
12-09-02 .....   The NaNny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus

01-13-03 .....   Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross
02-10-03 .....   The Professor and the Madman: a Tale of Murder, Insanity, and
                           the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
03-10-03 .....   Open Season by Linda Howard
04-14-03 .....   The Navajo Code Talkers (25th Anniversary Edition) by Doris A. Paul
05-12-03 .....   Pot-Luck supper -- Pick books for July 2003 thru June 2004
06-09-03 .....   Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest
                               by Sandra Day O'Connor and H. Alan Day
07-14-03….. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
08-11-03….. The Worst Day of My Life, So Far by M. A. Harper
09-08-03….. Julie and Romeo by Jeanne Ray
10-13-03….. Wish You Well by David Baldacci
11-10-03….. The Last Girls by Lee Smith
12-08-03….. Camelback Falls by Jon Talton

01-12-04….. Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles
02-09-04….. Lexus and The Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman
03-08-04….. Three Daughters by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
04-12-04….. Clay’s Quilt by Silas House
05-10-04….. Pot-Luck supper 6:30 p.m. select books for July 2004 through June 2005
06-14-04….. The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran Xue
07-12-04..... Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser                            
08-09-04..... Three Junes by Julia Glass                                    
09-13-04..... The Kingmaker by Brian Haig                                   
10-12-04..... Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner                                
11-08-04..... Memoir Club by Laura Kalpakian                                    
12-13-04..... The English Assassin by Daniel Silva       

01-10-05..... Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
                        by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, Annette Lawrence Drew
02-14-05..... The Birth of Venus: A Novel by Sarah Dunant                 
03-14-05..... Waiting by Ha Jin                                                 
04-11-05..... My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult                                 
05-09-05..... Pot-Luck supper.  Select books for July 2005 thru June 2006
06-13-05..... Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts 
07-11-05     The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland
08-08-05     The True Story of Hansel and Gretel, a novel, by Louise Murphy
09-12-05      Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh 
10-10-05     Goodbye, Earl: A Bad Girl Creek novel by Jo-Ann Mapson 
11-14-05     The Lost German Slave Girl by John Bailey
12-12-05      More Than You Know by Beth Gutcheon  

01-09-06     The Last Kashmiri Rose by Barbara Cleverly
02-13-06     Mrs. Taft: Portrait of a Modern First Lady in the Edwardian Age
                 by Carol Sferazza Anthony
03-13-06     Dandelions in a Jelly Jar by Traci DePree           
04-10-06     Annual pot-luck dinner & meeting to select books for the coming year            
05-08-06     Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy by Lindsay Moran             
06-12-06     Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi    
07-10-06     Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes
08-14-06     The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry
09-11-06     Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See 
10-09-06   St. Dale by Sharyn McCrumb
11-13-06   The Lady and the Panda by Vicki Croke
12-11-06   Marley and Me by John Grogan     

01-08-07   The Rescue Artist by Edward Dolnick                       
02-12-07   The Mapmaker's Wife by Robert Whitaker
03-12-07   Spice The History of Temptation by Jack Turner      
04-09-07   The Ladies Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis
05-14-07   Annual pot-luck dinner & meeting to select books for the coming year
06-11-07   Sarah's Quilt by Nancy E. Turner
07-09-07   The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss
08-13-07   The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
09-10-07   Wind Spirit by Amy & David Thurlo
10-15-07   The Worst Hard Times, the Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great
               American Dust by Timothy Egan
11-12-07   Saving the World by Julia Alvarez
12-10-07   Flapper by Joshua Zeitz

01-14-08   Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
02-11-08   The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
03-10-08   The Last Days of Dogtown: A Novel by Anita Diamant
04-14-08   Annual pot-luck dinner & meeting to select books for the coming year
05-12-08   The Jew Store by Stella Suberman
06-09-08   The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
07-14-08   Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
08-11-08   They Did It with Love by Kate Morgenroth   
09-08-08   Petropolis by Anya Ulinich   
10-20-08   Body of Lies by David Ignatius 
11-10-08   Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and
              War at West Point by Elizabeth D. Samet   
12-08-08   The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History
              by Joseph M. Marshall III

01-12-09   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
02-09-09   The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
03-09-09   People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
04-13-09   The Brooklyn Follies: A Novel by Paul Auster
05-11-09   Annual pot-luck dinner & meeting to select books for the coming year
06-08-09   T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton

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CONTEMPORARY BOOK DISCUSSION CLUB -- Meeting 9:30 A.M., 2nd Wednesday

DATE ------------- BOOK -------- AUTHOR ----------------------------------------

Sept. 15, 1983... Organizational Meeting, Hostess & Leader: Susan Anderson

10-12-83......In Search of History by Theodore H. White
12-08-83......The Cinderella Complex by Colette Dowling

01-12-84......Pioneer Women by Joanna L. Stratton
02-09-84..... Those Who Love by Irving Stone
03-08-84..... A Woman of Independent Means by Elizabeth Forsythe Haley
04-12-84..... Megatrends by John Naisbitt
05-05-84..... 1st Annual Pot-Luck Dinner, at Howard and Susan Anderson's
05-10-84..... The Source by James A. Michener
06-14-94..... Blue Highways.: A Journey Into America by Wm. Least Heat Moon
07-12-84..... All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott
08-09-84..... ------ no meeting ------
09-13-84..... Tai-Pan by James Clavell
10-11-84..... Gardens of Stone by Nicholas Proffitt
11-08-84..... The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
12-13-84..... On Wings of Eagles by Ken Follett

01-09-85..... Life Sentences by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
02-13-85..... The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux
03-10-85..... Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph Lash
04-__-85..... Hearburn by Nora Ephrom
04-13-85..... 2nd Annual Pot-Luck Dinner at.Howard and Susan Anderson's
05-08-85..... A Hero For Our Time: An Intimate Story of The Kennedy Years
                        by Ralph G. Martin
06-12-85..... Gorky Park by Martin Smith
07-10-85..... Cracker Factory by Burditt
08-14-85..... The Peter Pan Syndrome: Men Who Have Never Grown Up By Dr. Dan Kiley
09-11-85..... Dream West by David Nevin
10-09-85..... Once and Future King by T. H. White
11-13-85..... The Color Purple by Alice G. Walker
12-11-85..... The Informed Heart by Dr. Bruno Bettlheim

01-08-86..... The Hunt For Red October by Tom Clancy
02-12-86..... Lines and Shadows by Joseph Wambaugh.
03-12-86..... Looking For Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner AND/OR Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
04-09-86..... Men Are Just Desserts by Dr. Sonya Friedman
05-10-86..... 3rd Annual Pot-Luck Dinner at Howard and Susan Anderson's
05-14-86..... Clan of The Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
06-11-86..... Hard Times by Studs Terkel
07-09-86..... Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
08-13-86..... Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer
09-10-86..... Intermission by Anne Baxter
10-08-86..... ----- novels by Anne Tyler
11-12-86..... Margaret Mead: A Life by Jane Howard
12-10-86..... Inside, Outside by Herman Wouk

01-14-87..... The Walking Drum by Louis L'Amour
02-11-87..... Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
03-18-87..... Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
03-28-87..... 4th Annual Pot-Luck Dinner
04-08-87..... No Fond Return of Love and Excellent Women by Barbara Pym.
05-13-87..... At Seventy, A Journal by May Sarton
06-10-87..... Aunt Julia and The Script Writer by Mario Vargas Llosa
07-08-87..... The Cardinal Sins by Andrew M. Greeley
08-12-87..... The Africans: A Triple Heritage by Ali A. Mazrui
09-09-87..... The City of Joy by Dominique Lapierre
10-14-87..... And So It Goes: Adventures in Television by Linda Ellerbee
11-18-87..... The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
12-09-87..... Why Men Are The Way They Are by Warren Farrell

01-13-88..... Joanna's Husband and David's Wife by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
02-10-88..... One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
03-09-88..... The Russians by Hedrick Smith
04-13-88..... Bess W. Truman by Margaret Truman
04-30-88..... 5th Annual Pot-Luck Dinner at Howard and Susan Anderson's
05-11-88..... Filaree by Marguerite Noble
06-08-88..... Vanished Arizona: Recollections of The Army Life of a New England
                       Woman by Martha Summerhayes
07-13-88..... Whirlwind by James Clavell
08-10-88..... Last of The Breed by Louis L'Amour
09-14-88..... Texasville by Larry McMurtry.
10-08-88..... Sci-Fic author Michael McCullum spoke to our group in home of
10-12-88..... Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman
11-09-88..... Hold On, Mr. President! by Sam Donaldson
12-14-88..... Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow.

01-11-89..... Oral History by Lee Smith
02-08-89..... Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
03-08-89..... America Is My Neighborhood, Willard Scott and Daniel Paisner
04-12-89..... The Australians by Ross Terrill
04-29-89..... 6th Annual Pot-Luck Dinner at Howard and Susan Anderson's
05-10-89..... Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoddy
06-14-89..... Spring Moon by Bette Bao Lord
07-12-89..... The Power Game: How Washington Works by Hedrick Smith
08-09-89..... Women's Diaries of The Westward Journey by Lilliam Schlissle
09-13-89..... Gorillas In The Mist by Dian Fossey and Woman In The Mists:
                       The Story of D. Fossey & the Mountain Gorillas of Africa by F. Mowat
10-11-89..... Golda: The Romantic Years by Ralph G. Martin
11-08-89..... Children of The Arbat by Anatoli Rybakov
12-13-89..... SARUM: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd

01-10-90..... A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman
02-14-90..... Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende
03-14-90..... The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
03-31-90..... 7th Annual Pot-Luck Dinner
04-11-90...... Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies
05-09-90..... "S" by John Updike
06-13-90..... Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctrow
07-11-90..... ---meet for lunch & discussion, no chosen book---
08-08-90..... ---meet for lunch & discussion, no chosen book---
09-12-90..... The Pledge by Howard Fast
10-10-90..... Showdown by Jorge Amado
11-14-90..... Goldwater by Barry M. Goldwater
12-12-90..... Far From Homes: Families of the Westward Journey by Lillian
                       Schlissel, Gibbens and Hampsten

01-09-91..... The House of The Spirits by Isabel Allende
02-13-91..... When Heaven and Earth Change Places by Le Ly Hayslip
03-13-91..... A Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy
04-10-91..... Alaska by James A. Michener
05-08-91..... Daughter of Destiny by Benazir Bhutto
05-19-91..... 8th Annual Pot-Luck Dinner at Howard and Susan Anderson's
06-12-91..... The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
07-10-91..... ---meet for lunch & discussion, no chosen book---
08-14-91..... ---meet for lunch & discussion, no chosen book---
09-11-91..... Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe by Fanny Flagg
10-09-91..... You Just Don't Understand by Deborah Tanner, Ph.D.
11-13-91..... Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
12-11-91..... Sound of Wings by Mary Lovell

01-08-92..... Minor In Possession by J. A. (Judy) Jance
02-12-92..... Rabbit At Rest by John Updike
03-11-92..... Don't Shoot It's Only Me by Bob Hope
04-08-92..... From Beirut To Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman
04-11-92..... 9th Annual Pot-Luck Dinner at Howard and Susan Anderson's
05-13-92..... Family Pictures by Sue Miller
06-10-92..... Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
07-08-92..... ---meet for lunch & discussion, no chosen book---
08-12-92..... ---meet for lunch & discussion, no chosen book---
09-09-92..... Undue Influence by Shelby Yastrow
10-14-92..... Old Bones by Aaron Elkins
11-11-92..... Into The Heart: One Man's Pursuit of Love & Knowledge Among the
                       Yanomama by Kenneth Good with David Chanoff
12-09-92..... The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner.

01-13-93..... ME: Stories of My Life by Katherine Kepburn.
02-10-93..... Beloved by Toni Morrison
03-10-93..... Revolution From Within by Gloria Steinem
04-14-93..... Father Melancholy's Daughter by Gail Godwin
05-12-93..... The Awakening by Kate Chopin
05-15-93..... 10th Annual Pot-Luck Dinner at Howard and Susan Anderson's
06-09-93..... As The Crow Flies by Jeffrey Archer
07-14-93..... ---meet for lunch & discussion, no chosen book---
08-11-93..... ---meet for lunch & discussion, no chosen book---
09-08-93..... The Broker Circle by Rodney Baker
10-13-93..... Hillary Clinton by Judith Warner
11-10-93..... Booked to Die by John Dunning
12-08-93..... A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle

01-12-94..... Crossing To Safety by Wallace Stegner
02-09-94..... A Question of Choice by Sarah Weddington
03-09-94..... The Age of Innocents by Edith Wharton
05-__-94..... Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog
05-14-94..... 11th Annual Pot-Luck Dinner
06-08-94..... The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
07-13-94..... Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
08-10-94..... Child of Silence by Abigail Padgett
09-14-94..... Rogue Warrior by Richard Marchinko
10-12-94..... Growing Up Female: Stories by Women, edited by Susan Cahill
11-09-94..... For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
12-14-94..... Princess: A True Story of Life Behind The Veil in Saudi Arabia
                       by Jean P. Sasson

01-11-95..... Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel
02-08-95..... Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
03-08-95..... Days of Grace by Arthur Ashe
04-12-95..... Growing Up by Russell Baker
05-10-95......A Yellow Raft In Blue Water by Michael Dorris
05-20-95..... 12th Annual Pot-Luck Dinner
06-14-95......Secret Cermonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage
                        and Beyond by Deborah Laake
07-12-95......The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
08-09-95......The Sands of Time by Sidney Sheldon
09-13-95......Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
10-11-95......My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
11-08-95......Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
12-13-95......Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook

01-10-96......The Soloist by Mark Salzman
02-14-96......Fool's Puzzle by Earlene Fowler
03-13-96......English Creek by Ivan Doig
04-10-96......Bastard Out Of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
05-08-96..... The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
05-18-96..... 13th Annual Pot-Luck Dinner
06-12-96..... The Celestine Prophecy
07-10-96......Alburquerque by Rudolfo Anaya
08-14-96..... Stormy Weather by Carl Hiassen
09-11-96..... Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
10-09-96..... The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
11-13-96..... Possessing The Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
12-11-96..... Ill Wind by Nevada Barr

01-08-97..... Washington Goes To War by David Brinkley
02-12-97..... Blue Rodeo by Jo-Ann Mapson
03-12-97..... Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
04-09-97..... Paula by Isabel Allende
04-19-97......14th Annual Pot-Luck Dinner at Howard and Susan Anderson's
05-14-97..... The Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy
06-11-97..... Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
07-09-97..... Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg
08-13-97..... First Ladies by Margaret Truman
09-10-97..... Kristin Lavransdatter: Book I, The Bridal Wreath by Sigrid Undset
10-08-97..... A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
11-12-97..... The Broken Promise Land by Marcia Muller
12-10-97..... The Girls With the Grandmother Faces: A Celeberation of Life's Potential
                          for Those Over 55 by Frances Weaver

01-14-98..... The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
02-11-98..... Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose
02-27-98..... 15th Annual Dinner with spouse, friend or solo
03-11-98..... A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
04-08-98..... Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
05-13-98..... Stones from the River by Ursula Heig
05-06-98..... Brown Bag Brunch, select books for July 1998 through June 1999
06-10-98..... The Horse Whisperer by Nicolas Evans
07-08-98..... The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
08-12-98..... July's People by Nadine Gordimer
09-09-98..... How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
10-14-98..... Angels & Insects by A. S. Byatt
11-11-98..... The Apothecary Rose by Candace M. Robb
12-09-98..... The Christmas Letters by Lee Smith

01-13-99..... A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Ulrich
02-10-99..... Personal History by Katharine Graham
03-10-99..... One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
04-14-99..... Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
04-17-99..... 16th Annual Dinner, hosted by Pat & Jim Mau
05-05-99..... Brown Bag Brunch, select books for July 1999 through June 2000
05-12-99..... High Tide In Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver
06-09-99..... Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
07-14-99.....  Blood Work by Michael Connelly
08-11-99.....  24 Years of House Work...and the Place Is Still a Mess by Pat Schroeder
09-08-99.....  Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
10-13-99.....  Soiled Doves: Prostitutes in the Early West by Ann Seagraves
11-10-99.....  The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
12-08-99.....  Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man & the Last Great
                         Lesson by Mitch Albom

01-12-00.....  Hanna's Daughters: A Novel of Three Generations by Marianne Fredriksson
02-09-00.....  Hitchhiking Vietnam: A Woman's Solo Journey in an Elusive Land by Karin Muller
03-08-00.....  The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley
04-08-00.....  17th Annual Dinner, hosted by Pat & Jim Mau
04-12-00.....  A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson
05-03-00.....  Special meeting, select books for July 2000 through June 2001
05-10-00....   Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
06-14-00.....  After Long Silence: a memoir by Helen Fremont
07-12-00.....  The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
08-09-00.....  Magic City by Jewell Parker Rhodes
09-13-00.....  The Prodigal Spy by Joseph Kanon
10-11-00.....  Hillary's Choice by Gail Sheehy
11-08-00.....  Chocolat by Joanne Harris
12-13-00.....  The Stolen Blue by Judith Van Gieson

01-10-01.....   Plainsong by Kent Haruf
02-14-01.....  The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
03-14-01.....  Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman
04-11-01.....  Home Town by Tracy Kidder
04-28-01.....  18th Annual Dinner, with spouse, friend, or solo..Hostess  Pat Mau
05-02-01.....  Special Meeting, select books 7-2001 thru 6-2002..Hostess  Susan Anderson
05-09-01.....  From This Day Forward by Cokie Roberts & Steven Roberts
06-13-01.....  Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
07-11-01.....  Birds of Prey by J. A. Jance
08-08-01.....  Seneca Falls Inheritance by Miriam Grace Monfredo
09-12-01.....  Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross
10-10-01.....  Front Row At The White House by Helen Thomas
11-14-01.....  City of Light by Lauren Belfer
12-12-01.....  Lying Awake by Mark Salzman

01-09-02.....  Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
02-13-02.....  An Hour Before Daylight by Jimmy Carter
03-13-02.....  The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon
04-06-02.....  19th  Annual Dinner, 6:30 P.M., Participants w/spouse, friend, or solo
04-10-02.....  The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
05-01-02.....  Special Meeting, select books for July 2002 through June 2003
05-08-02.....  The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan
06-12-02.....  The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
07-10-02.....  White Rose: Una Rosa Blanca by Amy Ephron
08-14-02.....  Bad Girl Creek: A novel in 4 Voices by JoAnn Mapson
09-11-02.....  Murder in Foggy Bottom by Margaret Truman
10-09-02.....  Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
11-13-02.....  Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
12-11-02.....  Concrete Desert: A David Mapstone Mystery by Jon Talton

01-08-03.....  Life Is So Good by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
02-12-03.....  Seldom Disappointed by Tony Hillerman
03-12-03.....  Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
04-09-03.....  The NaNny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
04-12-03.....  20th Annual Dinner,  6:30 P.M., Participants w/spouse, friend, or solo
05-07-03.....  Special Meeting, select books for July 2003 through June 2004
05-14-03.....  Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest
                               by Sandra Day O'Connor and H. Alan Day
 06-11-03..... Jackdaws by Ken Follett
 07-09-03..... The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
08-13-03..... Tending Roses by Lisa Wingate
09-10-03..... Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir & Michele Fitoussi
10-08-03..... Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History
                       by Kati Marton
11-12-03..... Atonement by Ian McEwan
12-10-03..... A Cup of Tea by Amy Ephron

01-14-04..... Douglass' Women: A Novel by Jewell Parker Rhodes
02-12-04..... Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in The New Economy
                          Edited by: Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Rusell Hochschild
03-10-04..... Along Came Mary: A Bad Girl Creek Novel by Jo-Ann Mapson
04-14-04..... West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story by Tamim Ansary
04-17-04..... 21st Annual Dinner -- 6:30 P.M., Participants w/spouse, friend, or solo
05-05-04..... Special Meeting to select books for July 2004 through June 2005
05-12-04..... Good Harbor by Anita Diamant
06-09-04..... Confidence Woman by Judith VanGieson
07-14-04..... Living History by Hillary Rodham Clitnon
08-11-04..... The Elegant Gathering of White Snows by Kris Radish
09-08-04..... The Confessor by Daniel Silva
10-13-04..... Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
11-10-04..... Desert Wives by Betty Webb
12-08-04..... The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

01-12-05..... Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
02-09-05..... The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror
                       by Christian Parenti
03-09-05..... Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
04-13-05..... The Tree Junes by Julia Glass
04-16-05..... 22nd Annual Dinner -- 6:30 P.M., Participants w/spouse, friend, or solo
05-04-05..... Special Meeting to select books for July 2005 through June 2006
05-11-05..... The Known World by Edward Jones
06-08-05..... Founding Sisters and The Nineteenth Amendment by Eleanor Cliff

- New name:  Contemporary Book Discussion Club (for non-smoking women)

- Membership is limited to 18 women who love reading books

- Meeting the second Wednesday of each month at 9:30 A.M. in homes of the members

- If a member misses three meetings in a row without calling or writing the hostess her name
  will be removed from the roll of members.

- All participants shall be expected to have read the book for discussion before the meeting.

- The purpose is to read and then discuss those books read by  all members.
   It is NOT a lecture series, or a book review series for NON-readers.

- Members are expected to be able to disagree without being disagreeable, or without taking personal
  offense at any comments made by other members about what they thought of the book or author! 
  There are no right or wrong answers!

- The group shall select books that a majority of the members desire to  read!  There will be selections
   that many of the members would NOT have chosen to read on their own, BUT, the group will not select
   a book that does not have a vote of "yes, lets read it" from a majority of the members.

- The group shall select books once each year for the coming year.  All  participants shall be encouraged
   to submit a number selections, either books she would like to lead, OR books she thinks the group - as
   a whole - would enjoy, and would make a lively diverse discussion.

- The goal/guideline shall be to select a variety of books with at least one book from each of the following
   categories annually -- when possible:

  -1- biography/memoir
  -2- mystery
  -3- travel
  -4- government/politics
  -5- Arizona location, or book by an Arizona writer
  -6- self-help/self-improvement, and/or women's studies
  -7- the remaining selections from current/contemporary fiction.

- After the books are chosen, annually, the members shall volunteer to be a discussion leader, and/or
  be hostess.

- Each discussion leader shall lead as she feels comfortable,  with only a few guide-lines.  She should
   provide a few reviews of the book, and biographical information on the author.  Then she shall prepare
   a group of discussion questions (for HER use in leading the group) about the book, to start the discussion,
   keep it going, and on the book

- If the discussion leader desires to assign research questions, they  will only be given to members who
  volunteer to take such a question.  They will not be assigned to anyone not wishing a research question.

- If a leader does ask for volunteers to take questions, this may not be done more than one time in a
  twelve-month period.  This club is NOT a class -- it is for reading and learning pleasure, without stress,
  and without right or wrong answers.

- A house guest is always welcome to attend a meeting with a member!  Local residents who only want
  to go out to lunch, but are NOT book readers, are NOT welcome to attend.

- If  TWO current participants have reservations about a prospective member, that person shall not be
  invited to become a member.

- The group shall operate on American democratic principles -- equal  opportunity for ALL members to
   participate in all things, unless they choose not to participate.  All discussions are more interesting
   when everyone expresses her opinion!  ALL opinions are valuable, interesting,  and wanted!
 
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