Novel Ideas Book Club meets the 1st Thursday of every month at 6:30pm. Books should be read by the discussion date. The next meeting date and book selection is:

  • June 5 - The Good Good Pig by Sy Montgomery

    Chosen as a best nonfiction book of the year by The Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Rocky Mountain News and the Richmond Times Dispatch.

    In this enchanting memoir, Sy Montgomery reveals the valuable, life-changing lessons she and others learned from Christopher Hogwood, a generous soul who just so happened to be a pig.

    Sy Montgomery is a naturalist, author, documentary scriptwriter, and radio commentator who writes for children as well as adults. Among her award-winning books are Journey of the Pink Dolphins, Spell of the Tiger, and Search for the Golden Moon Bear. She has made four trips to Peru and Brazil to study the pink dolphins of the Amazon; and on other expeditions, she was chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Zaire; bitten by a vampire bat in Costa Rica; undressed by an orangutan in Borneo; and hunted by a tiger in India. She also worked in a pit crawling with eighteen thousand snakes in Manitoba; handled a wild tarantula in French Guiana; and swam with piranhas, electric eels, and dolphins in the Amazon. She lives in New Hampshire.

    Click here to find out more about Sy Montgomery and her books at www.goodgoodpig.com.

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    • July 10 (one week later due to July 4 holiday) - Case Histories: A Novel by Kate Atkinson

      Case Histories introduces Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator. Case Histories won the Saltire Book of the Year Award and the Prix Westminster.

      From Publishers Weekly: In this ambitious fourth novel from Whitbread winner Atkinson (Behind the Scenes at the Museum), private detective Jackson Brodie—ex-cop, ex-husband and weekend dad—takes on three cases involving past crimes that occurred in and around London. The first case introduces two middle-aged sisters who, after the death of their vile, distant father, look again into the disappearance of their beloved sister Olivia, last seen at three years old, while they were camping under the stars during an oppressive heat wave. A retired lawyer who lives only on the fumes of possible justice next enlists Jackson's aid in solving the brutal killing of his grown daughter 10 years earlier. In the third dog-eared case file, the sibling of an infamous ax-bludgeoner seeks a reunion with her niece, who as a baby was a witness to murder. Jackson's reluctant persistence heats up these cold cases and by happenstance leads him to reassess his own painful history. The humility of the extraordinary, unabashed characters is skillfully revealed with humor and surprise. Atkinson contrasts the inevitable results of family dysfunction with random fate, gracefully weaving the three stories into a denouement that taps into collective wishful thinking and suggests that warmth and safety may be found in the aftermath of blood and abandonment. Atkinson's meaty, satisfying prose will attract many eager readers. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

      Kate Atkinson was born in York and now lives in Edinburgh. Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. She is the author of a collection of short stories, Not the End of the World, and of the critically acclaimed novels Human Croquet, Emotionally Weird, Case Histories, and One Good Turn.

      Click here to find out more about Kate Atkinson and her books at www.kateatkinson.co.uk.

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