Timberglen Community Book Club

Book club for adults that meets the second Tuesday of every month.  Walk-in's are always welcome! 

January

"Blind Date with a Book" workshop!  Help us wrap books and create “profiles” or enticing descriptions designed to get library patrons to borrow a book sight unseen!  "Blind Date with a Book" is a Valentine Day themed Book Club initiative to get readers interested in taking a risk borrowing and reading something different.

February

News of the World by Paulette Jiles

New York, William Morrow , 2016, 213p. (Ebook, Audio Books plus 0 of 31 books avail.) In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna's parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. An amazingly vivid story!

The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman

New York, W.W.Norton & Co., 2008, 368p. (Ebook, Audio Book, Eaudiobook, plus 10 of 20 books avail) 14 out of 18 readers would recommend this book. SUMMARY:1939: the Germans have invaded Poland. The keepers of the Warsaw zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, survive the bombardment of the city, only to see the occupiers ruthlessly kill many of their animals. The Nazis then carry off the prized specimens to Berlin for their program to create the "purest" breeds, much as they saw themselves as the purest human race. Opposed to all the Nazis represented, the Zabinskis risked their lives by hiding Jews in the now-empty animal cages, saving as many as three hundred people from extermination. Acclaimed, best-selling author Diane Ackerman, fascinated both by the Zabinskis' courage and by Antonina's incredible sensitivity to all living beings, tells a moving and dramatic story of the power of empathy and the strength of love