The book group Books and Bagels will discuss The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (Dial Press\, $15.00). "\;January 1946\: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War\, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met\, a native of the island of Guernsey\, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb. As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters\, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends--and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society--born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island--boasts a charming\, funny\, deeply human cast of characters\, from pig farmers to phrenologists\, literature lovers all. Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society's members\, learning about their island\, their taste in books\, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Captivated by their stories\, she sets sail for Guernsey\, and what she finds will change her forever.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T020849Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120112T230000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120112T230000Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/amiable-adult-readers-discussing-books-almost-always-read-kids-1 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/amiable-adult-readers-discussing-books-almost-always-read-kids-1 SUMMARY:Amiable Adult Readers Discussing Books Almost Always Read by Kids ( DESCRIPTION:Amiable Adult Readers Discussing Books Almost Always Read by Kids (Aardbaark) will discuss Dying to Meet You by Kate Klise (Houghton Mifflin\, $5.99). Ignatius B. Grumply moves into the Victorian mansion at 43 Old Cemetery Road hoping to find some peace and quiet so he can crack a wicked case of writer's block. But 43 Old Cemetery Road is already occupied by eleven-year-old Seymour\, his cat Shadow\, and an irritable ghost named Olive. It's hard to say who is more outraged. But a grumpy old ghost just might inspire this grumpy old man--and the abandoned kid? Well\, let's just say his last name's Hope. Sisters Kate and M. Sarah Klise offer up this clever new series told in letters\, drawings\, newspaper articles\, a work-in-progress manuscript\, and even an occasional tombstone engraving.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T020849Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120114T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120114T150000Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/sherlock-holmes-book-club-9 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/sherlock-holmes-book-club-9 SUMMARY:Sherlock Holmes Book Club DESCRIPTION:The Sherlock Holmes Book Club will discuss "\;The Final Problem"\; from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World’s Classics\, $12.95). Containing a fascinating variety of stories\, from narratives by Holmes himself to a meeting with his brilliant brother and the climactic and seemingly fatal meeting between Holmes and the criminal mastermind Moriarity\, this volume sealed Holmes' immortality as a literary figure.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T020849Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120114T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120114T180000Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/jeff-barnes-will-sign-great-plains-guide-custer URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/jeff-barnes-will-sign-great-plains-guide-custer SUMMARY:Jeff Barnes will sign The Great Plains Guide to Custer DESCRIPTION:The author provides a guide to forts\, military posts\, battlefields\, and other sites that interpret George Armstrong Custer's decade of operations on the Great Plains\, including locations in Louisiana\, Texas\, Oklahoma\, Kansas\, Nebraska\, Colorado\, Wyoming\, South Dakota\, North Dakota\, and Montana. Each entry includes directions\, amenities\, contact information\, and recommended reading. An extended section on Little Bighorn is included.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T020849Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120117T233000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120117T233000Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/international-intrigue-book-group URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/international-intrigue-book-group SUMMARY:International Intrigue Book Group DESCRIPTION:The International Intrigue Book Group will discuss Exile by Richard North Patterson (St. Martin’s Press\, $9.99). David Wolfe is a successful American lawyer being primed for a run for Congress. But when the phone rings and he hears the voice of Hana Arif--the Palestinian woman with whom he had a secret affair in law school--he begins a completely unexpected journey. The next day\, the prime minister of Israel is assassinated by a suicide bomber while visiting San Francisco. Soon\, Hana is accused of being the mastermind behind the murder. Now David faces an agonizing choice\: Will he\, a Jew\, represent her? The most challenging case of David's career requires that he delve deep into the lives of Hana and her militant Palestinian husband\, all the way back to Israel and the West Bank. There he uncovers the couple's dangerous connections culminating in an explosive trial where the stakes are Hana's life--and the future of two peoples.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T020849Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120119T233000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120119T233000Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/worm-turns-book-group-0 URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/worm-turns-book-group-0 SUMMARY:As the Worm Turns Book Group DESCRIPTION:The As the Worm Turns Book Group will discuss Books\: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry (Simon &\; Schuster\, $14.00). Spanning a lifetime of literary achievement\, McMurtry has succeeded at a wide variety of genres\, from coming-of-age novels like The Last Picture Show\, to essays like In a Narrow Grave\, to the reinvention of the "\;Western"\; on a grand scale like the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. Here at last is the private McMurtry writing about himself\: as a boy growing up in a largely "\;bookless"\; world\, as a young man devouring the world of literature\, as a fledgling writer and family man\, and above all as one of America's most prominent "\;bookmen."\; A work of charm\, grace\, and good humor\: reading Books is like reading the best kind of diary--full of wonderful anecdotes\, amazing characters\, spicy gossip\, and shrewd observations. Like its author\, Books is erudite\, full of life\, and full of great stories. Yet the most curious tale of all is the amazing transformation of a reluctant young cowboy into a world-class literary figure who has spent his life not only writing books\, but rounding them up the way he once rounded up cattle. Robert Runyon will facilitate the discussion. Space is limited\, so please call to reserve your place.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T020849Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120123T190000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120123T190000Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/world-war-ii-history-book-group URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/world-war-ii-history-book-group SUMMARY:World War II History Book Group DESCRIPTION:The World War II History Book Group will discuss All the Way to Berlin\: A Paratrooper at War in Europe by James Megellas (Presidio Press\, $27.00). In mid-1943 Megellas joined the 82d Airborne Division. His first taste of combat was in the rugged mountains outside Naples. In October 1943\, Lt. Gen. Mark Clark requested that the division’s 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment for a daring new operation that would outflank the Nazis’ stubborn defensive lines and open the road to Rome. On 22 January 1944\, Megellas and the 504th landed across the beach at Anzio. Following initial success\, Fifth Army’s amphibious assault\, Operation Shingle\, bogged down in the face of heavy German counterattacks that threatened to drive the Allies into the Tyrrhenian Sea. Anzio turned into a fiasco\, one of the bloodiest Allied operations of the war. Not until April were the remnants of the regiment withdrawn and shipped to England to recover\, reorganize\, refit\, and train for their next mission. In September\, Megellas parachuted into Holland with the 82d Airborne as part of another star-crossed mission\, Operation Market Garden. Months of hard combat in Holland were followed by the Battle of the Bulge\, and the long hard road across Germany to Berlin.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T020849Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120124T233000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120124T233000Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/historymystery-book-group URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/historymystery-book-group SUMMARY:History/Mystery Book Group DESCRIPTION:The History/Mystery Book Group\, a new reading group focusing on mysteries in historical settings\, will have its organizational meeting to discuss common interests and select books for discussion at future meetings. The book for discussion at this first meeting is Billy Boyle\: A World War II Mystery by James Benn (Soho\, $14.00). What's a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop doing an English country house\, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Back home Billy Boyle had barely made detective when war was declared. Unwilling to fight--and perhaps die--for England\, he was relieved when his mother wangled a job for him on the staff of a general married to her distant cousin. But the general turns out to be Dwight D. Eisenhower\, whose headquarters are in London\, which is undergoing the Blitz. And Uncle Ike wants Billy to be his personal investigator. Billy is dispatched to the seat of the Norwegian government in exile. Operation Jupiter\, the impending invasion of Norway\, is being planned\, but it is feared that there is a German spy amongst the Norwegians. Billy doubts his own abilities\, with good reason. A theft and two murders test his investigative powers\, but Billy proves to
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T020849Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120128T150000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120128T150000Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/civil-war-book-group URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/civil-war-book-group SUMMARY:Civil War Book Group DESCRIPTION:The Civil War Book Group will discuss A Team of Rivals\: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon &\; Schuster\, $21.00). Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius\, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. That Lincoln succeeded\, Goodwin demonstrates\, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men\, to experience what they were feeling\, to understand their motives and desires. It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together\, create the most unusual cabinet in history\, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union and winning the war. We view the long\, horrifying struggle from the vantage of the White House as Lincoln copes with incompetent generals\, hostile congressmen\, and his raucous cabinet. He overcomes these obstacles by winning the respect of his former competitors\, and in the case of Seward\, finds a loyal and crucial friend to see him through.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T020849Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120128T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120128T180000Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/robin-donovan-will-sign-it-still-murder-even-she-was-bitch URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/robin-donovan-will-sign-it-still-murder-even-she-was-bitch SUMMARY:Robin Donovan will sign Is It Still Murder Even Is She Was a Bitch? DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120524T020849Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120129T180000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120129T180000Z UID:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/matthew-norman-will-sign-domestic-violets URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.bookwormomaha.com/event/matthew-norman-will-sign-domestic-violets SUMMARY:Matthew Norman will sign Domestic Violets DESCRIPTION:Tom Violet always thought that by the time he turned thirty-five\, he’d have everything going for him. Fame. Fortune. A beautiful wife. A satisfying career as a successful novelist. A happy dog to greet him at the end of the day. The reality\, though\, is far different. He’s got a wife\, but their problems are bigger than he can even imagine. And he’s written a novel\, but the manuscript he’s slaved over for years is currently hidden in his desk drawer while his father\, an actual famous writer\, just won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His career\, such that it is\, involves mind-numbing corporate buzzwords\, his pretentious nemesis Gregory\, and a hopeless\, completely inappropriate crush on his favorite coworker. Oh . . . and his dog\, according to the vet\, is suffering from acute anxiety. Tom’s life is crushing his soul\, but he’s decided to do something about it. Domestic Violets is the brilliant and beguiling story of a man finally taking control of his own happiness—even if it means making a complete idiot of himself along the way.
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