Wine, Women & Words 2010

(formerly, Soccer Mom Book Club)

Meets in the first week of the month on a date conveneint for the members at 7:00 pm at a member's home. The club's meeting space is too small to accept new members.

	Title	Book Description	Author

January	Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Ballantine Books $15.00	"A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war--not the sweeping damage of the battlefield, but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts and humanity of individual people. Especially relevant in today's world, this is a beautifully written book that will make you think. And, more importantly, it will make you "feel,"" --Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain	Jamie Ford
February	Velva Jean Learns to Drive Plume Books $15.00	Set in Appalachia in the years before World War II, Velva Jean Learns to Drive is a poignant story of a spirited young girl growing up in the gold-mining and moonshining South.	Jennifer Niven
March
April	Loving Frank Ballantine Books $14.00	"It takes great courage to write a novel about historical people, and in particular to give voice to someone as mythic as Frank Lloyd Wright. This beautifully written novel about Mamah Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright's love affair is vivid and intelligent, unsentimental and compassionate." -Jane Hamilton	Nancy Horan
May
June
July	The Help Amy Einhorn Books $24.95	In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.	Kathryn Stockett
August	This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind Harvest Books $14.00	This haunting, magnificently written memoir introduced an important American writer. Now, in its Fifteenth Anniversary Edition, Ivan Doig's preface provides stirring details of the making of this memorable book. Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged, elemental Montana wilderness with his father, Charlie, and his grandmother, Bessie Ringer. His life was formed among the sheepherders and characters of small-town saloons and valley ranches as he wandered beside his restless father. Doig's prose resonates as much with the harshness and beauty of the Montana landscape as it does with those moments in memory that determine our lives. What Doig deciphers from his past with piercing clarity is a raw sense not only of the land and how it shapes us but also of the ties to our mothers and fathers, to all those who love and loved us, to those who formed our values in our search of intimacy, independence, love, and family. This powerfully told story is at once especially American and quietly universal in its capacity to awaken a longing for an irretrievable past.	Ivan Doig
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