Book Club

Discussion Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2006.
A mystery where the clues lurk in university libraries, old letters and dusty journals. Together with Roland Michell, a fellow academic and accidental sleuth, Maud Bailey discovers a love affair between two Victorian writers. Booker Prize; ALA Notable Book, 1990; Time Magazine's All-Time Best 100 Novels.

Discussion Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2005.
A story of the intertwined fates of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines near a North Dakota reservation from 1934 to 1984. Listed in Fiction Core Collection (H.W. Wilson); Booklist's Best of the '80s; Booklist's Best American Fiction from the Last 25 Years; Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, 1985; National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; YBP Core Collection, 2010.

Discussion Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2005.
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.