Thursday March 20th 2014 7pm - Kimbril Book Club

"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak


The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that will be in movie theaters on November 15, 2013, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.

Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.

In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time

Ladies - please check your calendars and tell me what you think about these dates.  I just counted every four weeks and came up with these so if this is your month and these dates are bad please let me know and we will push schedule back.  Decide whether  you can do the Thursday or Friday of your month and let me know so I can update schedule.  Thanks Ladies! 

Kimbril - March - Thursday March 20th

Dana - April - Thursday April 17 or Friday the 18

Cherie - May - Thursday May 15 or Friday May 16

Denise - June - Thursday June 12 or Friday June 13

Jennifer Malin - July Thursday July 10 or Friday July 11

Amy Gall - August - Thursday August 7 or Friday August 8

HAD AN AWESOME TIME AT MAGGIANO'S!!!

Kicking Off 2014!

Fun times at book club Ladies!  Looking forward to next month! 

Paula - February - Friday February 21st

Location TBA

Last Guard Out by Jim Albright

Book Description

The Last Guard Out is the fascinating true story of one man's life as a guard behind the merciless concrete walls of Alcatraz.I was newly assigned to the infamous island penitentiary of Alcatraz. Reporting to Alcatraz required me to uproot my wife Cathy and young son Kenny from Colorado to California. As we approached San Francisco via of the Oakland Bay Bridge we got our first foreboding glance of Alcatraz Island with a dense circle of fog surrounding it. A strange sense of dread came over me. I looked at our young son asleep in the back seat, then turned to my wife next to me and I whispered "What The Hell Did We Do". After moving on to Alcatraz our thought on Island life quickly changed and we decided not to apply for a transfer out, which consequently left us there until the Island closed in March of 1963.Because of our newly born daughters foot problem they left us there until June of 1963 making me The Last Guard Out.

Kimbril - March - Thursday March 20th

Dana - April 

Cherie - May

Denise - June

Jennifer Malin - July

Amy Gall - August

Need to discuss dates for rest of the year.  Please let me know when you would like to schedule your month. 

January 10, 2014 JC book club Wine Exchange

reservations under my name at 7pm.

Wine Exchange
1609 W Snow Ave
Tampa, FL 33606

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Vintage) Paperback

by

Cheryl Strayed (Author)

A Best Book of the Year: NPR, The Boston Globe, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, St. Louis Dispatch

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone. Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.

Katheen's Service Saturday January 4th from 11am to 2pm Rusty Pelican

http://adams-jennings.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=2363701&fh_id=12401


Kathleen Elizabeth Hogan
(March 29, 1971 - December 17, 2013)

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42, passed away after a valiant battle with cancer. Born and raised in Tampa, Kathleen graduated from Plant High School and St. Petersburg College. She loved her job and colleagues at Jabil Circuit and remained close friends with former co-workers at Carrabba’s. No one who knew Kathleen will forget her wall-to-wall smile, genuine warmth and offbeat Irish humor. Even while fighting the battle of her life, she charmed her medical team and buoyed loved ones with her confident optimism. Throughout that too-brief life, she used her incisive wit and practical intellect for good, but delighted in fun-loving (though never mean-spirited) naughtiness. She wrote the book on strength of spirit and quiet grace in the face of agonizing challenges. She will be deeply missed by her loving parents, Thomas (Red) and Ellen Hogan; her doting sister and brother-in-law, Meghan and Steve Tauber; devoted boyfriend, Bill Kelleher; numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and friends across the country; plus her furry kids, Butter and Sugar. Kathleen’s friends and loved ones will gather to celebrate her life, swap stories and tickle old memories January 4, 2014, at the Rusty Pelican, 2425 North Rocky Point Drive, Tampa; 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, LifePath Hospice, the Humane Society Tampa Bay or charity of your choice. 

The White Queen - Jen Malin - October Book Club

The White Queen by Philippa Gregory

The date we have held is October 17^th at 7pm 

OR Brunch at Oxford Exchange instead on Saturday, October 19 at 11am

http://www.philippagregory.com/books/the-white-queen

Three different, yet equally relentless women who will scheme, manipulate, and seduce their way onto the English throne.

The White Queen is the story of Elizabeth Woodville, a woman of extraordinary beau

ty and ambition, who secretly marries the newly crowned Edward IV. Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for her family’s dominance, but despite her best efforts, her two sons become pawns in a famous unsolved mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the lost princes in the Tower of London. In this dazzling account of the deadly Wars of the Roses, brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England.

Amazon.com Review

Book Description

THE COUSINS' WAR
Book One

Philippa Gregory, "the queen of royal fiction,"*
presents the first of a new series set amid the
deadly feuds of England known as the
Wars of the Roses.

Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England, in this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets. They are the claimants and kings who ruled England before the Tudors, and now Philippa Gregory brings them to life through the dramatic and intimate stories of the secret players: the indomitable women, starting with Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen.

The White Queen tells the story of a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition who, catching the eye of the newly crowned boy king, marries him in secret and ascends to royalty. While Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for the success of her family, her two sons become central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the missing princes in the Tower of London whose fate is still unknown. From her uniquely qualified perspective, Philippa Gregory explores this most famous unsolved mystery of English history, informed by impeccable research and framed by her inimitable storytelling skills. 

SEPTEMBER 19TH - Amy Rossi Gall - Defending Jacob by William Landay

Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2012: A fast, compelling, and compulsively readable courtroom drama, Defending Jacob tells the story of a district attorney’s son who is accused of killing a classmate. As the father attempts to prove his son’s innocence, Landay explores uncomfortable territory: can a tendency toward violence be inherited? Is the capacity for murder a genetic disposition? The author, a former district attorney, gets the taut nuances just right, capturing the subtleties of a trial in a packed courtroom, where a small rustle or murmur can signify a lot. In the end Landay pulls off a clever plot device that doesn’t reveal itself until the final pages. --Neal Thompson

Featured Guest Review: Chevy Stevens on Defending Jacob   Chevy Stevens grew up on a ranch on Vancouver Island and still calls the island home. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Still Missing and Never Knowing.

From the first few pages of Defending Jacob, I knew this book was special. More than an exciting courtroom drama that combines the best elements of a legal and psychological thriller, it also delves into the heart of a family, and will rip yours out in the process.

When a young boy is found brutally murdered in the woods in a peaceful New England town, his body hastily covered with leaves, the community is shaken to its core. No one more so than Andy Barber, a well-respected assistant district attorney whose fourteen-year-old son, Jacob, went to school with the boy. Sure, Jacob is a typical moody teenager, hiding in his room all day with his headphones and lap top, but Andy loves him more than anything in this world--and would do anything to protect him.

While Andy's wife, Laurie, struggles with the possibility that there's a killer on the loose and their own son could be next, Andy's determined to find the culprit and bring him to justice. He immerses himself in a maelstrom of angry parents demanding answers, police hell-bent on making an arrest, and the complicated lives of teenagers, with their own secrets, and reasons for keeping them.

When, in a stunning turn of events, Jacob is arrested for the crime, both Andy and Laurie are stalwart in their defense of their son: there's no way their child could've committed this terrible act. As more shocking facts are revealed and lies uncovered, Andy is pushed to the edge and his twenty-year marriage tested. Beautiful Laura, his college sweetheart and love of his life, begins to fade in front of his eyes, crumbling under the pressure of the trial, the public accusations, and the weight of her own doubts--in her son and her husband. When truths about Andy's past comes to surface, he must chose between the life he thought he'd left behind, and the father he wants to be.

Defending Jacob raises the question: how far would you go to protect your family? But it also leaves you wondering if anyone could answer that question, and whether we really know what we're capable of when push comes to shove.

Let's pray we never have to find out.

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 A good time was had by all!