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May

3rd Tuesday Hermitage Adult Book Club

Nashville Public Library - Hermitage Branch, Tuesday, May 21 at 6pm

The Round House by Louise Erdrich (MDGentleReader)

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May

Northshire Women Read

Northshire Bookstore, Monday, May 13 at 6pm

The Northshire Women Read group will meet at the Inn at Manchester on Monday, May 13th at 6pm for a discussion of The round house by Louise Erdrich. If you are a member of this reading group, please stop by The Northshire Bookstore to pick up your reserved copy of The round house (and receive a 20% discount)

Our reading group is currently filled with enthusiastic readers and not taking any new members, but we would love to invite you to join us at a later date. Please email Amy apalmer@northshire.com to join a waiting list.

Location: Street: The Inn At Manchester Additional: 3967 Main Street City: Manchester Center, Province: Vermont Postal Code: 05255 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Mar

Reading Rainbow Book Club: The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Charis Books and More, Sunday, March 3 at 6pm

Join us for the Reading Rainbow Book Club for lesbians and their friends. All are welcome to discuss this month's book, The round house by Louise Erdrich. All books are chosen by Reading Rainbow club members and members receive 10% off the book club pick from Charis Books and More. This event is co-sponsored by Charis Circle's From Margin to Center Literary Program. The suggested donation is $5. Click here to donate in advance by credit card. About the book: ne Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared.

While his father, who is a tribal judge, endeavors to wrest justice from a situation that defies his efforts, Joe becomes frustrated with the official investigation and sets out with his trusted friends, Cappy, Zack, and Angus, to get some answers of his own. Their quest takes them first to The round house, a sacred space and place of worship for the Ojibwe. And this is only the beginning. Join us for the Reading Rainbow Book Club for lesbians and their friends. All are welcome to discuss this month's book, The round house by Louise Erdrich. All books are chosen by Reading Rainbow club members and members receive 10% off the book club pick from Charis Books and More. This event is co-sponsored by Charis Circle's From Margin to Center Literary Program. The suggested donation is $5. Click here to donate in advance by credit card. About the book: ne Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared.

While his father, who is a tribal judge, endeavors to wrest justice from a situation that defies his efforts, Joe becomes frustrated with the official investigation and sets out with his trusted friends, Cappy, Zack, and Angus, to get some answers of his own. Their quest takes them first to The round house, a sacred space and place of worship for the Ojibwe. And this is only the beginning.

Location: Street: 1189 Euclid Ave NE City: Atlanta, Province: Georgia Postal Code: 30307-1509 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Feb

Fiction Book Club: The Round House

Nightbird Books, Tuesday, February 26 at 5:30pm

This great book club will primarily be reading literary fiction and is scheduled for the 4th Tuesday of each month at 5:30. Clint Schnekloth is facilitating this group.

Book club books are discounted 10%, but you will need to let the bookseller know at checkout that you are purchasing the book for book club.

The February selection is National Book Award Winner, The round house by Louise Erdrich. It is also available as an eBook from Nightbird Books.

Location: Street: 205 W Dickson St City: Fayetteville, Province: Arkansas Postal Code: 72701 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Feb

The Bookies

Emmet O'Neal Library, Tuesday, February 12 at 10am

The Bookies will discuss The Round House by Louise Erdrich (kmoellering)

Feb

Reading Rainbow Book Club: The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis

Charis Books and More, Sunday, February 10 at 6pm

Join us for the Reading Rainbow Book Club for lesbians and their friends. All are welcome to discuss this month's book, The twelve tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis. All books are chosen by Reading Rainbow club members and members receive 10% off the book club pick from Charis Books and More. This event is co-sponsored by Charis Circle's From Margin to Center Literary Program. The suggested donation is $5. Click here to donate in advance by credit card. March's book is The round house by Louise Erdrich. About the book: A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration through the trials of one unforgettable family. In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. She vows to prepare them for the calamitous difficulty they are sure to face in their later lives, to meet a world that will not love them, a world that will not be kind. Captured here in twelve luminous narrative threads, their lives tell the story of a mother’s monumental courage and the journey of a nation.

Beautiful and devastating, Ayana Mathis’s The twelve tribes of Hattie is wondrous from first to last—glorious, harrowing, unexpectedly uplifting, and blazing with life. An emotionally transfixing page-turner, a searing portrait of striving in the face of insurmountable adversity, an indelible encounter with the resilience of the human spirit and the driving force of the American dream. Join us for the Reading Rainbow Book Club for lesbians and their friends. All are welcome to discuss this month's book, The twelve tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis. All books are chosen by Reading Rainbow club members and members receive 10% off the book club pick from Charis Books and More. This event is co-sponsored by Charis Circle's From Margin to Center Literary Program. The suggested donation is $5. Click here to donate in advance by credit card. March's book is The round house by Louise Erdrich. About the book: A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration through the trials of one unforgettable family. In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. She vows to prepare them for the calamitous difficulty they are sure to face in their later lives, to meet a world that will not love them, a world that will not be kind. Captured here in twelve luminous narrative threads, their lives tell the story of a mother’s monumental courage and the journey of a nation.

Beautiful and devastating, Ayana Mathis’s The twelve tribes of Hattie is wondrous from first to last—glorious, harrowing, unexpectedly uplifting, and blazing with life. An emotionally transfixing page-turner, a searing portrait of striving in the face of insurmountable adversity, an indelible encounter with the resilience of the human spirit and the driving force of the American dream.

Location: Street: 1189 Euclid Ave NE City: Atlanta, Province: Georgia Postal Code: 30307-1509 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Feb

The Book Cellar Book Club

The Book Cellar, Wednesday, February 6 at 7pm

The Book Cellar Book Club will be meeting to discuss Painted Drum By Louise Erdrich.

Location: Street: 4736-38 N Lincoln Ave City: Chicago, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60625 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)

Oct

Award Winners Book Club

R.J. Julia Booksellers, Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at 12:30pm

Award Winners Book Club: Wednesday, October 31st from 12:30 to 2:00

Book: Plague Of Doves by Louise Erdrich

Location: Street: 768 Boston Post Rd. City: Madison, Province: Connecticut Postal Code: 06443 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)

Oct

Louise Erdrich - The Round House

Politics and Prose, Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 7pm

One of our most accomplished and prolific storytellers, Erdrich has woven a string of acclaimed novels from her Native American and German background. Her latest fiction returns to the Ojibwe reservation of A Plague Of Doves for a coming-of-age story about a boy seeking justice after a terrible event has torn his family apart.

Street: 5015 Connecticut Ave NW City: Washington, Province: District Of Columbia Postal Code: 20008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Oct

Louise Erdrich, Round House

Porter Square Books, Monday, October 8, 2012 at 7pm

“A stunning and devastating tale of hate crimes and vengeance…Erdrich covers a vast spectrum of history, cruel loss, and bracing realizations. A preeminent tale in an essential American saga.” Booklist, starred review

One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared.

Written with undeniable urgency, and illuminating the harsh realities of contemporary life in a community where Ojibwe and white live uneasily together, The round house is a brilliant and entertaining novel, a masterpiece of literary fiction. Louise Erdrich embraces tragedy, the comic, a spirit world very much present in the lives of her all-too-human characters, and a tale of injustice that is, unfortunately, an authentic reflection of what happens in our own world today.

Louise Erdrich is the author of thirteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, short stories, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel Love Medicine won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse was a finalist for the National Book Award. Most recently, The Plague of Doves won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Louise Erdrich lives in Minnesota and is the owner of Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore

Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Oct

Free Library of Philadelphia - Louise Erdrich - The Round House

Joseph Fox Bookshop, Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 7:30pm

The round house Louise Erdrich In her 14 novels, children’s stories, and poetry collections, Louise Erdrich revisits the beloved and familiar Native American reservation of her North Dakota childhood, grounding mythic and magical in the detail of the everyday, “easily navigating the wavering line between a recognizable, psychological world and the more arcane world of legend and fable” (New York Times). Her novels include Love Medicine, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse; and The Plague of Doves, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In The round house, a teenage boy seeks vengeance for a vicious attack against his Ojibwe mother. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) Tickets on sale August 24 at 10:00 a.m. This is a TICKETED event; $15 General Admission, $7 Students. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here

Location: Street: Free Library of Philadelphia Additional: 1901 Vine Street City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19103-5207 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

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