Butt-Holdsworth Memorial Library About the Brown Bag Book Club
The Brown Bag Book Club is an "open" club, allowing those interested to attend as often as they choose. Participants are welcome to bring their lunch as they gather to discuss the month’s book selection. Brown Bag
Meetings are held at Noon on the Book Club second Thursday of the month in the Library’s Conference Room.
Patrons may place a request for the book in person, by phone at 830.258.1274, or on the library website at http://libraryweb.kerrvilletx.gov
Butt-Holdsworth Memorial Library 505 Water St Kerrville, TX 78028
July - December 2016 Circulation: 830.258.1274 Reference: 830.258.1275 libraryweb.kerrvilletx.gov July 14 September 8 November 10
Whistling Past the Graveyard The Disappearing Spoon The Round House Susan Crandall Sam Kean Louise Erdrich
The Periodic Table is a crowning scientific The Round House transports readers to the Fleeing her strict grandmother's home in achievement, but it's also a treasure trove Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. It is an 1963 Mississippi, nine-year-old Starla of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp Claudelle becomes an unlikely companion These fascinating tales follow every of manhood who seeks justice and to an African-American woman at whose element on the table as they play out understanding in the wake of a terrible side she learns harsh lessons about their parts in human history, and in the crime that upends and forever transforms segregation and family. lives of the (frequently) mad scientists his family. who discovered them.
August 11 October 13 December 8 And Then There Were None March Agatha Christie The Accursed Geraldine Brooks Joyce Carol Oates "Ten . . ." Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island Princeton, New Jersey, at the turn of the A historical novel and love story set mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious twentieth century: a genteel town for during a time of catastrophe, on the front "U. N. Owen." genteel souls. But something dark and lines of the American Civil War. Acclaimed "Nine . . ." dangerous lurks at its edges, corrupting author Geraldine Brooks gives us the story At dinner a recorded message accuses each of and infecting its residents. Vampires and of the absent father from Louisa May them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by ghosts haunt the dreams of the innocent Alcott's Little Women - and conjures a the end of the night one of the guests is dead. and a powerful curse besets the families of world of brutality, stubborn courage and the elite–their daughters begin transcendent love. "Eight . . ." disappearing. And in the Pine Barrens that Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by a border the town, a lush and terrifying nursery rhyme counting down one by one . . . as one by one . . . they begin to die. underworld opens up.
"Seven . . ." Which among them is the killer and will any of them survive?