NCC Book Club
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The NCC Book Club strives to foster a love of reading in our NCC community. We meet once a month on Tuesdays at 1:30pm. New members are always welcome.
JANUARY'S READ
Orphan Train
by Christina Baker Kline
Molly Ayer is close to “aging out” out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse...
As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren’t as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance.
Molly discovers that she has the power to help Vivian find answers to mysteries that have haunted her for her entire life—answers that will ultimately free them both.
Read more at Amazon.com.
FEBRUARY / MARCH'S READ
Girl on the Train
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.
And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?
Read more at Amazon.com.
APRIL'S READ
Fangirl
In Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she's really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it's what got them through their mother leaving.
Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can't let go. She doesn't want to. Now that they're going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn't want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone.
For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?
Read more at Amazon.com.
MAY'S READ
The Necklace: Thirteen Women and The Experiment That Transformed Their Lives
One day in Ventura, California, Jonell McLain saw a beautiful diamond necklace in a jewelry store window and wondered: Why are personal luxuries so plentiful yet accessible to so few? What if we shared what we desired? Several weeks, dozens of phone calls, and one great leap of faith later, Jonell and twelve other women bought the necklace together–to be passed along among them all. The dazzling treasure weaves in and out of each woman’s life, reflecting her past, defining her present, making promises for her future.
Read more at Amazon.com.
JUNE'S READ
Call the Midwife
Read the book that inspired the hit TV series by the same name.
Worth gained her midwife training in the 1950s among an Anglican order of nuns dedicated to ensuring safer childbirth for the poor living amid the Docklands slums on the East End of London. Her engaging memoir retraces those early years caring for the indigent and unfortunate during the pinched postwar era in London, when health care was nearly nonexistent, antibiotics brand-new, sanitary facilities rare, contraception unreliable and families with 13 or more children the norm. (Publisher's Weekly Review)
Read more at Amazon.com.
PAST BOOK CLUB TITLES
Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin
Life Is So Good by George Dawson
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
A Buffalo in the House by R. D. Rosen
Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Traitor's Wife by Allison Pataki
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
All of these books are available in the NCC Library.
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