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The Hot & Popular Book Club.

 

Meeting date: Second Tuesday of each month.

Time: 10:00 a.m.

Place: Watermark Cafe.

Leader: Mark David Bradshaw

 

Our morning reading group is perfect for retirees, busy parents with school-age children, and anyone who wants a daytime book club. Over morning coffee, we read engaging novels and memoirs--which often focus on the lives of women and children around the world--and we have lively discussions. Come be hot and popular with us!

 

Hot & Popular Special Events:

 

September 15, 2010: Group Dinner before Jeannette Walls's Half Broke Horses talk & signing.

 

July 8, 2010: Group Dinner before James Levine's signing for The Blue Notebook.

 

February 16, 2010:

Meet & Greet with Lisa See, author of Shanghai Girls.

 

 

Book Selections

 

2011

April 12 - The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim.

February 8 - Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb.

January 11 - The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart.

 

2010

December 14 - Small Island by Andrea Levy.

November 9 - The Blind Contessa's New Machine by Carey Wallace.

October 12 - This Child Will Be Great by Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.

September 14 - The Help by Kathryn Stockett.

August 10 - The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama.

July 13 - The Girl from Foreign: A Memoir by Sadia Shephard.

June 8 - The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine.

June to August 2010 comprises a special Indian Summer series featuring novels set in modern-day India.

May 11 - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson.

April 13 - Incendiary by Chris Cleave.

March 9 - The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper.

February 9 - All Passion Spent: A Novel by Vita Sackville-West.

January 12 - Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeanette Walls.

 

2009

December 8 - Baking Cakes in Kigali: A Novel by Gaile Parkin.

Nov. 10 - Three Little Words: A Memoir by Ashley Rhodes-Courter.

October 13 - Shanghai Girls: A Novel by Lisa See.

September 8 - The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid.

August 11 - I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.

June 9 and July 14 - The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb.

May 12 - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson.

April 14 - Song Yet Sung by James McBride.

March 10 - Slam by Nick Hornby.

February 10 - A Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson.

January 13 - Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez.

 

2008

December 9 - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie.

November 11 - The Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat.

October 14 - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.

September 9 - Here if You Need Me by Kate Braestrup.


 

4701 East Douglas/Wichita, Kansas 67218/(316) 682-1181

Hours:

Monday - Friday:  10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. (Cafe opens at 7:00 a.m.)

Saturday:  10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.  (Cafe opens at 7:00 a.m.)

Sunday:  Noon - 5:00 p.m.