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Monthly Archives: May 2018

Once We Were Brothers — [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup]If you are stopping by to find questions for your book club, please leave a note for me telling me where you are from! Welcome to the online book club for Once We Were Brothers by Ronald H. Balson. Ben Solomon, a survivor of the Nazi invasion of Poland, is watching […]

Online Book Club: Once Were Were Brothers by Ronald H. ...

This entry was posted in Online Book Club Reading and tagged Online Book Club on May 30, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter

Best Intentions — [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “Motherhood was like an end-of-semester project. There was always one more thing I should be doing.” Marti Trailor is not feeling fulfilled in her role as a doctor’s wife and mother to three school-aged children. Her husband is working longer and longer hours and seems detached from […]

Best Intentions by Erika Raskin

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction on May 28, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter

The Johnstown Flood — [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “The enormous sympathy aroused by the newspaper accounts, the pictures, the songs and poems, brought on the greatest outpouring of popular charity the country had ever seen.” On May 31, 1889, water poured over and broke through a dam releasing water that would damage a countryside and […]

The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged history Non-Fiction on May 25, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter

Murder on Orient Express — [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “A ridiculous-looking little man. The sort of little man one could never take seriously.” Hercule Poirot has just finished helping solve a problem for a friend in an Eastern European army and has boarded a train to start heading home. A cry is heard, a man is […]

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction mystery on May 21, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter

Death Without Company — [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “… passion is a strange thing, a thing that warps and twists everything with which it comes in contact.” An elderly woman dies in a nursing home, which would normally be a non-event to anyone outside of her family. Another resident wants her room set aside as […]

Death Without Company by Craig Johnson

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction mystery on May 18, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter

One Summer — [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] For June, the Online Book Club will read and discuss One Summer by David Baldacci. I’ve only read one other David Baldacci book, which was not his typical style – The Christmas Train. I really enjoyed the book. I also read a book written by his sister […]

June Online Book Club book announcement (One Summer by David ...

This entry was posted in Online Book Club Reading and tagged Fiction Online Book Club on May 16, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter

Calico Joe — [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “The worst part will be the long drive, just me and Warren in the car, with so much history to cover and no desire to go there.” As the son of a Major League Baseball pitcher, Paul Tracey not only longs to follow in his father’s footsteps, […]

Calico Joe by John Grisham

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction Online Book Club on May 14, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter

Kingdom Come — “The night can’t last forever. Just hold out a little longer. The night can’t last forever.” Jason Collins is part of an elite team that works out of the Vatican. He’s not a priest or a missionary or even a teacher – he’s a demon hunter, trained to track and […]

Kingdom Come by Justin Coogle

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Fiction Religious on May 11, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter

A Lion Among Men — [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.” Brrr is the Cowardly Lion, taken from his mother as a cub to be shown at a university and studied to see if he is an […]

A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire

This entry was posted in Online Book Club Reading and tagged Fiction Online Book Club on May 7, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter

Confessions of a Prodigal Daughter — [sg_popup id=”17″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] “He’s unique, this Jesus. And God willing, I will continue pursuing him until the end, no matter how difficult it gets.” Confessions of a Prodigal Daughter is a memoir of a woman who grew up in a Jewish home but felt the appeal of Christianity in college. […]

Confessions of a Prodigal Daughter by Sarahbeth Caplin

This entry was posted in Reading and tagged Memoir Non-Fiction on May 4, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter