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

First Monday Morning of the Month Club Meeting 
 May 7, 2012
Suggestions from “Around the Circle”
"Books don't make a home, they are one."
quote taken from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal

Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch / Sally Bedell Smith
 
Steve Jobs / Walter Isaacson
 
The Shadow of the Wind / Carlos Ruiz Zafón; translated by Lucia Graves
 
Outliers: The Story of Success / Malcolm Gladwell
 
The Name of the Rose / Umberto Eco; translated from the Italian by William Weaver
 
The Beginner's Goodbye / by Anne Tyler
 
The Beautiful Mystery / Louise Penny
 
Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison / Piper Kerman
 
The Doctor Stories / William Carlos Williams; compiled by Robert Coles
 
The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams / edited by A. Walson Litz
 
Corpse on the Cob: an Odelia Grey mystery / by Sue Ann Jaffarian (Book 5 in series; begin with Book 1: Too Big to Miss)
 
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? / Jeanette Winterson
 
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit / Jeanette Winterson
 
Sybil / Flora Rheta Schreiber
 
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir / Frank McCourt
 
The House I loved / Tatiana de Rosnay
 
Sarah's Key / Tatiana de Rosnay
 
The Tiger's Wife / Téa Obreht
 
East of the West: A Country in Stories / Miroslav Penkov
 
Hit Lit: Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century's Best Sellers /James Hall (available from WorldCat)

And two more intriguing offerings from Laura, the Librarian:

Daughter of Providence / Julie Drew

The Bucolic plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers / Josh Kilmer-Purcell