Book Club – 2012-13 Schedule

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Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Nemesis by Philip Roth
The American master’s 32nd book: “exhilarating … vintage” — The Guardian

Wednesday October 17, 2012 at 7:30 pm
The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger
Winner of the 2009 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction

Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 7:30 pm
The Sisters Brothers  by Patrick deWitt
Winner of the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction

Wednesday December 12, 2012 at 7:30 pm
The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work At 72 by Molly Peacock
A tour de force about an 18th century gentlewoman who created 985 botanically correct, breathtaking cut-paper flowers now housed in the British Museum

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 7:30 pm
To the End of the Land by David Grossman
The latest novel by the acclaimed Israeli writer

Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 7:30 pm
The Greenhouse by Audur Ava Olafsdottir
A delightful book about a young man out to restore a rose garden who finds himself raising a baby too. By an Icelandic art historian: there’s much more than meets the eye here.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 7:30 pm
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
A pharmacologist travels into the Amazonian heart of darkness in this spellbinder by the author of Bel Canto.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 7:30 pm
The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great by Eva Stachniak
The bestselling and highly-praised historical novel about the Empress of all the Russias

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Barney’s Version by Mordecai Richler
The last novel by the Montreal writer, winner of the 1997 Giller Prize

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