| 2009 | Book Title | Description | Author | Discussion Leader |
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January 6 |  The Sky Fisherman Picador USA $16.00 | The Sky Fisherman Love, death, coming of age, and Native American spiritual beliefs flow together with the forces of nature, in this engrossing novel. It is a story of loss and redemption, family and community, the western panorama, and the landscape of the heart. This is a moving family portrait etched in the rugged terrain of a small town in Oregon. | Craig Lesley | Marge |
| February 3 | 
The Highest Tide Bloomsbury Publishing PLC $14.95 | The Highest Tide While the sea continues to offer him discoveries from its mysterious depths, such as a giant squid, a teenaged boy struggles to deal with the difficulties that come with the equally mysterious process of growing up. | Jim Lynch | Marge McNary |
| March 3 | 
Guns, Germs, and Steel W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 | Guns, Germs, and Steel In this "artful, informative, and delightful (book)" ("New York Review of Books"), Diamond offers a convincing explanation of the way the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. | Jared Diamond | Maureen Casterline or Margaret Vandenbark |
| April 7 | 
The Audacity of Hope Three Rivers Press $14.95 
Dreams from My Father Three Rivers Press $14.95 | The Audacity of Hope Senator Obama has written a book of transforming power. Only by returning to the principles that gave birth to the Constitution, he says, can Americans repair a political process that is broken, and restore to working order a government that has fallen dangerously out of touch with millions of ordinary Americans. or Dreams from My Father Obama, the son of a white American mother and a black African father, writes an elegant and compelling biography that powerfully articulates America's racial battleground and tells of his search for his place in black America. | Barack Obama | Nancy Fowler and Liz Smith |
| May 5 | 
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time Penguin Books $15.00 | Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard. Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan's treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools, especially for girls, that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth. As it chronicles Mortenson's quest, which has brought him into conflict with both enraged Islamists and uncomprehending Americans, "Three Cups of Tea" combines adventure with a celebration of the humanitarian spirit. | Greg Mortenson | Carol Brenneman |
| June 2 |  The Whistling Season Harvest Books $14.95 | The Whistling Season The saga of how a widow from Minneapolis and her brother--soon to become the new teacher in a tiny Montana community in 1909--change lives in unexpected ways has all the charm of old-school storytelling, from Dickens to Laura Ingalls Wilder. | Ivan Doig | June Stromberg |
| July 7 | 
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Sociey Dial Press $14.00 | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Sociey In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. | Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows | Pat Lehman |
| August 4 | 
Triangle Picador USA $14.00 | Triangle The last living survivor of the notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire has told her story countless times. Even so, her death leaves many questions. Are the discrepancies in her various accounts over the years just ordinary human fallacy, or is there a hidden story in Esther's recollections of that terrible day? | Katharine Weber | Karen Beck |
| September 1 | 
Mountains Beyond Mountains Random House Trade $15.95 | Mountains Beyond Mountains At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat, and in medical school found his life's calling: to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. This magnificent book shows how radical change can be fostered in situations that seem insurmountable, and it also shows how a meaningful life can be created, as Farmer--brilliant, charismatic, charming, both a leader in international health and a doctor who finds time to make house calls in Boston and the mountains of Haiti--blasts through convention to get results. | Tracy Kidder | Maureen Casterline or Margaret Vandenbark |
| October 6 |  Anne of Green Gables Starfire $5.99 | Anne of Green Gables "The dearest and most lovable child in fiction." --Mark Twain Everyone's favorite redhead, the spunky Anne Shirley, begins her adventures at Green Gables, a farm outside Avonlea, Prince Edward Island. When the freckled girl realizes that the elderly Cuthberts wanted to adopt a boy instead, she begins to try to win them, and, consequently, the reader over. | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Patti Wenz |
| November 3 | 
Astrid & Veronika Penguin Books $14.00 | Astrid & Veronika With extraordinary emotional power, Olsson's stunningly well-crafted debut novel recounts the unusual and unexpected friendship that develops between two women. Set against a haunting Swedish landscape, this is a lyrical and meditative novel of love and loss. | Linda Olsson | Jean Gill |
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