Bellevue Public Library
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Senior Center Book Club Selections 2000-2007

1994-1999 Book Club Selections

Books Read in 2007:

January:  The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
February: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
March: 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
April: Northern Borders by Howard Frank Mosher
May: Wild Girls by Jim Fergus
June: World of Pies by Karen Stolz
July: Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Ogalalas by Mari Sandoz
August: Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
September: Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Windspear
October: Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War by Nathanaiel Philbrick
November: Digging to America by Anne Tyler
December: Andy Catlett by Wendell Berry

Books Read in 2006:

January:  A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
February: Lost Horizon by James Hilton
March: The Prizewinner of Defiance Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less by Terry Ryan
April: The Quilter's Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini
May: Flashback by Nevada Barr
June: One False Move by Alex Kava
July: Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
August: Cordelia Underwood by Van Reid
September: March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
October: The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook
November: Candyfreak by Steve Almond
December: A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg

Books Read in 2005:

January:  Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg
February:  All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
March:  Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
April:  My Antonia (View film)
May:  The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
June:  These Is My Words by Nancy Turner
July:  The Bedford Boys by Alex Kershaw
August:  Home to Harmony by Philip Gulley
September:  Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
October:  Murder on a Girls' Night Out by Anne George
November:  Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
December:  The Christmas Train by David Baldacci

Books Read in 2004

January:
  Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
February:  Julie & Romeo by Jeanne Ray
March:  Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
April:  Lazy B by Sandra Day O'Connor
May:  Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
June:  Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
July:  The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester
August:  The Tall Pine Polka by Lorna Landvik
September:  Growing Up by Russell Baker
October:  Letter from Home by Carolyn Hart
November:  The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
December:  Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

Books Read in 2003

January:
  An Hour Before Daylight by Jimmy Carter
February:  About a Boy by Nick Hornby
March:  Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
April:  The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie King
May:  Atticus by Ron Hansen
June:  Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross
July:  Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
August:  Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
September:  Bachelor Brothers Bed and Breakfast by Bill Richardson
October:  An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James
November:  On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons
December:  Once upon a Town by Bob Greene

Books Read in 2002

January:
  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
February:  The Endurance by Caroline Alexander
March:  A Soldier's Book by Joanna Higgins
April:  The Wild Blue by Stephen Ambrose
May:  A Perfect Evil by Alex Kava
June:  The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
July:  Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
August:  A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
September:  Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
October:  Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
November:  Jim the Boy by Tony Earley
December:  A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Books Read in 2001

January:
  The Professor's House by Willa Cather
February:  Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
March:  Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
April:  West with the Night by Beryl Markham
May:  Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
June:  City of Light by Lauren Belfer
July:  Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
August:  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
September:  Plainsong by Kent Haruf
October:  Miss Bishop by Bess Streeter Aldrich
November:  The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
December:  The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas

Books Read in 2000

January:
  For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway
February:  Slogum House by Mari Sandoz
March:  The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell
April:  Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
May:  Field trip to Council Bluffs library
June:  Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam Jr.
July:  Voyage of the Narwhal by Angela Barrett
August:  She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb
September:  Fields of Vision by Wright Morris
October:  All over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
November:  Angel of Darkness (Chaps. 1-30) by Caleb Carr
December:  Angel of Darkness (final chapters) by Caleb Carr

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