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OCTOBER    All the Bright Places  by Jennifer Niven   Moderator, Nija Branca                        Also from last June   My Favorite Thing is Monsters  by Emil Ferris                                                          Moderator, Zach Johnson NOVEMBER   Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood   Moderator, Susan Woodhams DECEMBER    The Sherlockian by Graham Moore   Moderator, Brad Craddock JANUARY         My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallant   Moderator, Shelley Davis Please be sure to post a response on the blog if you do not attend a meeting if you would like credit for the meeting's 2 hours.

A Piece of the World/The Elegance of the Hedgehog

SUMMER READING: 1st meeting: Monday, Sept. 25 A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline Moderator: Dolly Parker http://christinabakerkline.com/ From the #1   New York Times   bestselling author of the smash bestseller ORPHAN TRAIN, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s mysterious and iconic painting   Christina’s World . "Later he told me that he’d been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn’t like the way he portrayed me: dragging myself across the field, fingers clutching dirt, my legs twisted behind. The arid moonscape of wheatgrass and timothy. That dilapidated house in the distance, looming up like a secret that won’t stay hidden." To Christina Olson, the entire world was her family’s remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instea