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Valley Bookies Book Club

Read the following books and join our discussion the 2nd Tuesday of each month @ 7:00 pm at the library.  (June, July, & August meetings at Rosauer's).

July 8
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
"Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind.  Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with its own narrow, irrational rules, its own way of life, and its own way of death.  The world of the circus: to Jacob it was both salvation and a living hell."  Jacob was there because his luck had run out, it was the great depression, and everyone was lucky to have a job at all.  Marelna was there because she fell in love with the wrong man, and Rosie the elephant was there because she was the great gray hope. The bond between the trio was one of love and trust, and ultimately, survival.

Aug 13
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations - One School at a Time  by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
"One day in 1993, high up in the world's most inhospitable mountains, Gregg Mortenson wandered lost and alone, broken in body and spirit, after a failed attempt to climb K2, the world's most deadliest peak.  When the people of an improverished village in Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya took him in and nursed him back to health, Mortenson made an impulsive promise: He would return one day and build them a school.  Although he was a homeless "climbing bum" living out of his aging buick in Berkeley, California, Mortenson sold what few possessions he had to launch one of the most remarkable humanitarian campaigns of our time."  Three Cups of Tea traces Mortenson's decade-long odyssey to build schools, especially for girls, throughout the region that gave birth to the Taliban and sanctuary to Al Qaeda.

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