Our selection for February is the moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the United States. “In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. In China, Qian’s parents were professors; in America, her family is “illegal” and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive.” Please register in advance for this meeting. Any questions – please contact Celinda Crego directly at cac432@aol.com
The selection for January 10, 2023 is a historical fiction book, based on the life of Rosalind Franklin. Her Hidden Genius: A Novel by Marie Benedict. Rosalind Franklin was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA and the work of Watson and Crick. Watson suggested that Franklin would have ideally been awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Title: The Anthropocene Reviewed Author: John Green Date: November 9, 2021 Time: 7:30 PM – 9:00
This nonfiction book is a collection of essays – read as many as you wish, or time allows. John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet-from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu-on a five-star scale. Anthropocene is defined as the period of time during which human activities have had an environmental impact on the Earth regarded as constituting a distinct geological age.
Our March book club meeting will take place March 12, 2019 at the home of Rick Greenberg.
The book selection is Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas. There are a many copies of this book at the library, and a movie version starring Will Smith.
This NYTimes Best seller nonfiction book is described as a “medical mystery”.
“The riveting, unlikely story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who first identified CTE in professional football players, a discovery that challenges the existence of America’s favorite sport and puts Omalu in the crosshairs of football’s most powerful corporation: the NFL” from Amazon.
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