Community-wide book group/ New slate of books
Oconee Democrats have an outstanding book club and here are some selections for 2010
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Subject: Community-wide book group/ New slate of books
Hello!
Happy New Year!
We've put together an interesting line-up of books for our community-wide book group, which continues to grow each month!
Here's information about our choices below.
Thank you!
Patricia J. Priest
Member, Oconee Democrats
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The community book group sponsored by the Oconee Democrats has announced
its slate of books for 2010.
The list includes classics such as "Catch 22" and "Frankenstein" alongside newer books such as "Hot, Flat and Crowded," the best-selling
book by Thomas Friedman about the global energy and climate crises.
Other choices celebrate the splendors of and threats to the natural
world. Aldo Leopold's beloved classic "Sand County Almanac" and Paul Hawken's "The Ecology of Commerce" will inspire readers to look more closely at the wonders of nature in the winter-into-spring months and beyond.
The role of ordinary people to affect change is a theme across several
books. The group will read historian Howard Zinn's classic "The People's History" over two months. The book is an influential history of the courageous men and women who have worked to free slaves, improve the lives of factory workers, and achieve women's suffrage -- rallying in myriad ways to address injustices around the nation and world.
Another choice is "There is No Me Without You," a stirring and award-winning book by Atlanta writer Melissa Fay Green about a
middle-class woman in Ethiopia who provides foster care for some of the
1.5 million children in Ethiopia who have been left orphaned by the catastrophe of the AIDS epidemic.
An international focus pops up in several choices; these include the
critically acclaimed "Engaging the Muslim World" by Juan Cole and "The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism" by retired Army colonel and self-described conservative Andrew Bacevich. Publishers Weekly described the latter book this way: "Crisp prose, sweeping historical analysis and searing observations on the roots of American decadence elevate this book from mere scolding to an urgent call for rational thinking and measured action, for citizens to wise up and put their house in order."
The schedule is provided below.
The group meets at 6 PM the last Wednesday of every month at Five Points
Deli on Epps Bridge Parkway. Many attendees order dinner (in part, to
help support the wonderful, locally owned deli in Oconee County); others get coffee. The conversation about the book gets underway around 6:15 and ends about 7:45.
Books Galore in Watkinsville stocks copies of the books and provides a 25% discount.
Newcomers from any county and of any political affiliation are welcome. For more information, contact Pat Priest (ppriest@charter.net).
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January 27
Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America
Thomas Friedman
February 24
A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold
March 31
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
Paul Hawken
April 28
Catch 22
Joseph Heller
May 26 and June 30 (read in two parts)
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
Howard Zinn
July 28
Engaging the Muslim World
Juan Cole
August 25
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
David W. Blight
September 29
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
by Andrew Bacevich
October 27
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
November (Exact date to be determined)
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
Melissa Fay Green
Subject: Community-wide book group/ New slate of books
Hello!
Happy New Year!
We've put together an interesting line-up of books for our community-wide book group, which continues to grow each month!
Here's information about our choices below.
Thank you!
Patricia J. Priest
Member, Oconee Democrats
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The community book group sponsored by the Oconee Democrats has announced
its slate of books for 2010.
The list includes classics such as "Catch 22" and "Frankenstein" alongside newer books such as "Hot, Flat and Crowded," the best-selling
book by Thomas Friedman about the global energy and climate crises.
Other choices celebrate the splendors of and threats to the natural
world. Aldo Leopold's beloved classic "Sand County Almanac" and Paul Hawken's "The Ecology of Commerce" will inspire readers to look more closely at the wonders of nature in the winter-into-spring months and beyond.
The role of ordinary people to affect change is a theme across several
books. The group will read historian Howard Zinn's classic "The People's History" over two months. The book is an influential history of the courageous men and women who have worked to free slaves, improve the lives of factory workers, and achieve women's suffrage -- rallying in myriad ways to address injustices around the nation and world.
Another choice is "There is No Me Without You," a stirring and award-winning book by Atlanta writer Melissa Fay Green about a
middle-class woman in Ethiopia who provides foster care for some of the
1.5 million children in Ethiopia who have been left orphaned by the catastrophe of the AIDS epidemic.
An international focus pops up in several choices; these include the
critically acclaimed "Engaging the Muslim World" by Juan Cole and "The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism" by retired Army colonel and self-described conservative Andrew Bacevich. Publishers Weekly described the latter book this way: "Crisp prose, sweeping historical analysis and searing observations on the roots of American decadence elevate this book from mere scolding to an urgent call for rational thinking and measured action, for citizens to wise up and put their house in order."
The schedule is provided below.
The group meets at 6 PM the last Wednesday of every month at Five Points
Deli on Epps Bridge Parkway. Many attendees order dinner (in part, to
help support the wonderful, locally owned deli in Oconee County); others get coffee. The conversation about the book gets underway around 6:15 and ends about 7:45.
Books Galore in Watkinsville stocks copies of the books and provides a 25% discount.
Newcomers from any county and of any political affiliation are welcome. For more information, contact Pat Priest (ppriest@charter.net).
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January 27
Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America
Thomas Friedman
February 24
A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold
March 31
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
Paul Hawken
April 28
Catch 22
Joseph Heller
May 26 and June 30 (read in two parts)
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
Howard Zinn
July 28
Engaging the Muslim World
Juan Cole
August 25
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
David W. Blight
September 29
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
by Andrew Bacevich
October 27
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
November (Exact date to be determined)
There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
Melissa Fay Green
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