Afternoon Book Talk
with Paula Bornstein
WEDNESDAYS AT 1 PM

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
by Mary Ann Schaffer
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey, who tells her about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation.
Registration begins April 18, 2012




Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
The classic 1847 novel traces the doomed love affair between an orphaned, independent-minded governess and her brooding employer, Mr. Rochester
Registration begins May 16, 2012.

Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls.
Wednesday, July 18th, 1:00 to 2:00 pm
The author offers a novel based on the life of her grandmother, Lily Casey Smith, who learned to break horses in childhood, journeyed 500 miles on a pony as a teen to become a teacher, and ran a vast ranch in Arizona with her husband while raising two children, including Rosemary Smith Walls, portrayed in the author's acclaimed The Glass Castle.
Registration begins June 20, 2012.

Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
Wednesday, August 15th, 1:00 to 2:00 pm
Hoping to honor his father and the family business with innovative glass designs, Louis Comfort Tiffany launches the iconic Tiffany lamp as designed by women's division head Clara Driscoll, who struggles with the mass production of her creations.
Registration begins July 18, 2012.

Dreams of Joy: A Novel by Lisa See
Wednesday, September 19th, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
A continuation of "Shanghai Girls" finds a devastated Joy fleeing to China to search for her real father while her mother, Pearl, desperately pursues her, a dual quest marked by their encounters with the nation's intolerant Communist culture.
Registration begins August 15, 2012.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Wednesday, October 17th, 1:00 to 2:00 pm
Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by her powerful family, her uncle, convinced that she had been murdered by someone from her own deeply dysfunctional clan, hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to investigate.
Registration begins September 19, 2012

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Wednesday, November 21st, 1:00 to 2:00 pm
Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.
Registration begins October 17, 2012.

The Kids are All Right: A Memoir by Diana Welch
Wednesday, December 19th, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
The poignant, harrowing story of four siblings--Amanda, Liz, Dan, and Diana Welch--who despite their wrenching loss and subsequent separation, retained the resilience and humor that both their mother and father endowed them with--growing up as lost souls, taking disastrous turns along the way, but eventually coming out right side up and being together again.
Registration begins November 21, 2012.