HCSC Book Group 2011-2012

Meetings are the 3rd Wednesday of the month UNLESS NOTED, 6:30-8:30, for pot luck and discussion.  Please tell the hostess a week in advance if you are coming to her house.  For questions, directions, updates, please contact Lissa Ganter, 253-1337; ganter@lawandsociety.org.  There is dues charge of $2 per year to be a member of the group, payable in cash or stamps at your first meeting.

July 27 (4th Wednesday)
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, 2010.  Monterey (carpooling from Northampton)

August (4th Wednesday)
Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Danny Danziger, 2008.  West Springfeld (carpooling from Northampton)

September 21
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, 2010.  Leeds

October 19
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, 2008; translated from French by Alison Anderson.  Hatfield

November 16
A Million Nightingales by Susan Straight, 2007.  Haydenville

December 14 (2nd Wednesday)
Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived by Ralph Helfer, 1997. Amherst

January 18, 2012
Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City by Jed Horne, 2006. Easthampton

February 15
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, 2009.  Northampton

March 21
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen, 2009.  Northampton

April 18
Labor Day Joyce Maynard, 2009. Amherst

May 16
The Farming of Bones by Edwige Danticat, 1998. Venue TBA

June 20
Planning for next year.  Northampton