TIMBERGLEN BOOK CLUBThe Timberglen Branch Library Book Club meets the last Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the library at 18505 Midway Road, the corner of Midway & Timberglen Roads.
The Timberglen Book Club is not a book review, rather a discussion of the book selected for the month by club members. New members always welcome. Please RSVP to denise.lyons@dallaslibrary.org or call 214-671-1365.
September 25th: Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
Rennie Stroud looks back to 1942, when she was 13, to tell a powerful coming-of-age story. That year, the U.S. government opened a Japanese internment camp outside Ellis, CO, less than a mile from where Rennie and her family farmed sugar beets. Rennie observes the prejudice of some of the townspeople as well as her parents' strong moral code and their entanglement in the emotions of the time. When a young girl is murdered, suspicion naturally turns to the camp, and the town is divided by fear.
October 30th: The River King by Alice Hoffman
The Hadden School, an elite private school on the banks of the Hadden River, has had a very checkered past since it was built in 1858. No child from the town has ever been admitted and the Hadden students and townies never mix. When a student, August Pierce is found dead, floating in the Hadden River, both worlds come crashing together. His investigation into possible foul play begins to unravel the secret lives of both the students and town residents.
The Hadden School, an elite private school on the banks of the Hadden River, has had a very checkered past since it was built in 1858. No child from the town has ever been admitted and the Hadden students and townies never mix. When a student, August Pierce is found dead, floating in the Hadden River, both worlds come crashing together. His investigation into possible foul play begins to unravel the secret lives of both the students and town residents.
November 27th: Water for Elephants By Sara Gruen
When 23-year-old Jacob Jankowski learns that his parents have been killed in a car crash, leaving him penniless, he drops out of Cornell veterinary school and parlays his expertise with animals into a job with the circus, where he cares for a menagerie of exotic creatures.
