"Monday is the key day of the week." ~ Gaelic Proverb

                                 

THE FIRST MONDAY MORNING OF THE MONTH BOOK CLUB
Suggestions from Around the Circle
December 3, 2012



Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy by Paul Thomas Murphy

A Deadly Mission by Judith Campbell

A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living
by Luc Ferry

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
by Eben Alexander

To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again by Mary C. Neal

The Tigress of Forli: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici by Elizabeth Lev

Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation by Deborah Davis

Having Our Say:  the Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delaney

Ken Burns DVD: Unforgivable Blackness:  the Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, book by Geoffrey C. Ward

Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child

My Life in France by Julia Child

DVD: Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, book by Julie Powell

A Case for Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping that Haunted a Nation by Tal McThenia

Wicked Conduct: the Minister, the Mill Girl and the Murder That Captivated Old Rhode Island by Rory Raven

The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen

L. Frank Baum 14 titles in the OZ series:
1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
2. The Marvelous Land of Oz (aka The Land of Oz-1904) 
3. Ozma of Oz (1907) 4. Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (1908) 5. The Road to Oz (1909)
6. The Emerald City of Oz (1910)
7. The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913)
8. Tik-Tok of Oz (1914)
9. The Scarecrow of Oz (1915) 
10. Rinkitink in Oz (1916)
11. The Lost Princess of Oz (1917) 
12. The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918)
13. The Magic of Oz (1919)
14. Glinda of Oz (1920)