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Northern Plains Book Club

Enjoy good books and a spirited exchange of ideas at the monthly Northern Plains Book Club. Meetings are the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. Interested newcomers are always welcome. Attendance at every discussion is not expected, but the intent to participate is encouraged. Call the Library for more information or just come to the next meeting and join the lively discussion.

Next Meeting: Tuesday, MARCH 16th at 7:00 p.m.

March Book Club selections
noah's compass

Noah's compass : a novel / by Anne Tyler.

From Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life. Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn't bother him. What does bother him is that he has lost the memory of what happened the first night after he moved into his spare, efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up a day later in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged. His effort to recover the moments of his life that have been stolen from him leads him on an unexpected detour. What he needs is someone who can do the remembering for him. What he gets is well, something quite different.
Other men's horses

Other men's horses by Elmer Kelton

Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is assigned what appears to be a routine duty. Donley Bannister, a West Texas horse trader, has killed a thug named Cletus Slocum, who stole one of BannisterÕs horses. Ranger Pickard is ordered to find and arrest Bannister and bring him to trial. nbsp; The Bannister case turns out to be anything but routine. Pickard picks up BannisterÕs trail and finds him holed up with some cohorts who wound and vow to kill the young Ranger. Ironically, Bannister saves PickardÕs life by fending off the would-be killers and taking Andy to a cow camp where his injury can be treated. When he is able to ride, Andy locates and trails Geneva Bannister, DonleyÕs young wife, hoping she will lead him to the wanted man. The trail takes unexpected turns and detours: Near Fort Concho AndyÕs mission is interrupted by an ugly racial incident in which a black soldier is killed; Bannister is shot by outlaw Curly Tadlock and left for dead; and Tadlock brutally assaults Geneva. nbsp; Andy Pickard, newly married, still unsure of himself and his choice of Rangering as a career, must unravel this tangled series of events and accomplish his mission of bringing an accused killer to justice.

 

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Previous Book Club Selections:

Closing Time by Joseph Heller (5/09)
Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman (5/09)
Shopgirl by Steve Martin (3/09)
In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner (3/09)
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
Hope by Barack Obama
Critical by Robin Cook
The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
Perfect by Harry Kraus
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Interview by King Hurley
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs
Breakfast At Tiffany's by Truman Capote
The Ladies of Missalonghi by Colleen McCullough
Ride with Me Mariah Montana by Ivan Doig
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
Smokejumper by Nicholas Evans
Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx
Leap of Faith by Queen Noir
Kate Remembered by Elizabeth Berg
My SisterÕs Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich
Four Blind Mice by James Patterson
Wedding by Nicholas Sparks
Aunt Dimity, Detective by Nancy Atherton
Trophy Hunt by C. J. Box
Winter Kill by C. J. Box
Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Driving Lessons by Ed McBain
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Alice In Jeopardy by Ed McBain
Season of the Snake by Claire Davis
Just Lucky I Guess by Carol Channing
Welcome To The World Baby Girl by Fannie Flagg
Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg
Horseman, Pass By b y Larry McMurtry
Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
The Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
Coal Run by Tawni OÕDell
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston
Hondo by Louis LÕAmour
Intensity by Dean Koontz
Judgment Ridge by Mitchell Zuckoff
After Lydia by Sandra Tyler
Ambler Warning by Robert Ludlum
Sunflower by Richard Paul Evans
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive An Burns
Evening Class by Maeve Binchy
Prey by Michael Crichton
Passage by Connie Willis
Catcher In the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
The Fugitive Wife by Peter C. Brown
The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes by Diane Chamberlain
Centurion's Wife by Janette Oke and Davis Bunn
Acts of Faith, Book 1
Beneath a Marble Sky: a Love Story by John Shors