Conversation with Books 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009, at 7:00 p.m.
Coeur de Catherine, St. Paul Campus.
Backup date is Wednesday, January 28
Book List
The preliminary list of books to be discussed follows. Three new titles have been added!
- Creating Minnesota:A History from the Inside Out by Annette Atkins. Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2007.
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Societyby Anne Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer, Random House, 2008.
- Ladies of Liberty : The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts, William Morrow, 2008.
- Life Class: A Novel by Pat Barker, Doubleday, 2008.
- Loving Frank by Nancy Horan, Ballantine Books, 2007.
- The Plague of Dovesby Louise Erdrich, HarperCollins, 2008.
- Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri, Knopf, 2008.
- The Uncommon Reader by Allen Bennett, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
- Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make Historyby Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Knopf, 2007.
- White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple. Knopf, 2008.
The Conversation with Books program is scheduled for Monday, January 26, 2009, 7:00 p.m. Cost is $12 if paid by Wednesday, January 21. Cost at the door is $15. Those paying in advance will receive a confirmation letter. Call into the office with credit card payment, 651-690-6666, or send a check for $12 per person to the Alumnae Association Office, F-33, 2004 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105. A registration form will also be in the Events Calendar January/February issue.
The National Women's Book Association sponsors the National Reading Group Month every October. For a list of their book choices... |