Daytime is a great time to talk about books, and Readers Rendezvous Daytime Book Club provides a great variety of titles to spark conversation, both Fiction and Non-Fiction. You may wish to become a dedicated member, or just drop in if a particular book appeals to you!
This group meets at the Nichols Library once a month, on Tuesday mornings starting at 10:30 a.m. in the NaperLaunch meeting space on the upper level.
Our 2016 titles are listed below. Whether or not you join the Readers Rendezvous Daytime Book Club, you will enjoy this diverse selection of books.
Caring for an anonymous coma patient whose baffling condition is turning critical, Seattle ICU doctor Charlotte Reese and her science journalist boyfriend, Eric, find their relationship tested when the case forces them to confront respective feelings about death, love and marriage.
Readers Rendezvous will discuss this book on March 22.
Recognizing that the final stage of their lives is upon them, John and Ella Robina--the former an Alzheimer's patient, the latter succumbing to cancer--sneak away from their over-protective children and doctors to embark on an RV vacation along Route 66.
Readers Rendezvous will discuss this book on April 19.
A full-length narrative account of the author's original article as included in Best American Crime Reporting 2007 describes the lucrative heists of book thief John Charles Gilkey and the cat-and-mouse efforts of book dealer Ken Sanders to bring him to justice.
Readers Rendezvous will discuss this book on June 21.
Catherine Lemay, a young archeologist surveying a Montana canyon in the 1950s ahead of the planned construction of a major dam, meets a former mounted cavalryman who shows her the beauty in the stark landscape around her.
Readers Rendezvous will discuss this book on July 26.
Working in a Mexican taco shop while dreaming of her father in the United States, nineteen-year-old Nayeli struggles with a realization that most of the men in her village have left to pursue work in the north.
Readers Rendezvous will discuss this book on August 23.
A highly anticipated release of a newly discovered early work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of To Kill a Mockingbird continues the stories of iconic characters 20 years later during turbulent 1950s America.
Readers Rendezvous will discuss this book on September 20.
In order to convince his son to come home, Herbert Greenleaf, a rich shipbuilder, sends the suave con man Tom Ripley to Italy, but is unaware of his son's friend's criminal activities.
Readers Rendezvous will discuss this book on October 18.
Coming of age in middle America, 18-year-old Rosemary evaluates how her entire youth was defined by the presence and forced removal of an endearing chimpanzee who was secretly regarded as a family member and who Rosemary loved as a sister.
Readers Rendezvous will discuss this book on November 22.
Inspired by a visit to the first school for the blind in Tibet, the author investigates the cultural history of blindness, revealing the sightless' resilience, integrity, strength and ingenuity, along with the startling oppression experienced by them around the world.
Readers Rendezvous will discuss this book on December 13.