Amy's Choice: "Clan of the Cave Bear," by Jean M. Auel

Amy's Choice: "Clan of the Cave Bear," by Jean M. Auel

Date:  Noon Saturday August 29

Site: TBA 

This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love.

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
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Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear.

A natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly—she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homeland; but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza’s way of healing, most come to accept her. But the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader sees her differences as a threat to his authority. He develops a deep and abiding hatred for the strange girl of the Others who lives in their midst, and is determined to get his revenge.

  

Sue's Selection: "Incredibly Bright Creatures," by Shelby Van Pelt

Sue's Selection: "Incredibly Bright Creatures," by Shelby Van Pelt

Date: Noon Saturday June 28

Site: Red Lobster, Murray

 

Patty's Pick: "The Marlow Murder Club" by Robert Thorog

 

Patty's Pick: "The Marlow Murder Club" by Robert Thorogood

Date: Noon Saturday May 2

Site: Archibald's Restaurant at Gardner Village, 1100 West 7800 South

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amy's Book Choice: "Where the Coyotes Howl," by Sandra Dallas

 

Amy's Book Choice: "Where the Coyotes Howl," by Sandra Dallas

Date: 3 p.m. Saturday March 28

Site: Texas Roadhouse, Taylorsville

 

Beautifully rendered, Where Coyotes Howl is a vivid and deeply affecting ode to the early twentieth century West, from master storyteller Sandra Dallas.
Except for the way they loved each other, they were just ordinary, everyday folks. Just ordinary.
1916. The two-street town of Wallace is not exactly what Ellen Webster had in mind when she accepted a teaching position in Wyoming, but within a year’s time she’s fallen in love—both with the High Plains and with a handsome cowboy named Charlie Bacon. Life is not easy in the flat, brown corner of the state where winter blizzards are unforgiving and the summer heat relentless. But Ellen and Charlie face it all together, their relationship growing stronger with each shared success, and each deeply felt tragedy. 
Ellen finds purpose in her work as a rancher’s wife and in her bonds with other women settled on the prairie. Not all of them are so lucky as to have loving husbands, not all came to Wallace willingly, and not all of them can survive the cruel seasons. But they look out for each other, share their secrets, and help one another in times of need. And the needs are great and constant. The only city to speak of, Cheyenne, is miles away, making it akin to the Wild West in rural Wallace. In the end, it is not the trials Ellen and Charlie face together that make them remarkable, but their love for one another that endures through it all.

 

Sue's Selection: "The Flower Sisters," by Michelle Collins Anderson

 

Sue's Sensational Selection: "The Flower Sisters," by Michelle Collins Anderson

Date: Noon Saturday January 31

Site: Midvale Mining Cafe

 

 

 

BOOK CLUB FUN! :)

Patty's Pick: "The Lost Bookshop," by Evie Woods

 

Patty's Pick: "The Lost Bookshop," by Evie Woods

Date: Noon Saturday December 13.

Site: The Leprechaun Inn