I have continued to be the keeper for our book club list. The following are books that we discussed or we will discuss from  December 2012 to September 2013. One of our favorite was The Shoemaker's Wife.

December 2012-Trigiani, Adriana,The Shoemaker’s Wife, The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart. At the turn of the last century, when Ciro catches the local priest in a scandal, he is banished from his village and sent to hide in America as an apprentice to a shoemaker in Little Italy. Without explanation, he leaves a bereft Enza behind.496p. litlovers.com

2013
Sylvia-January-Findlay, William, Defending Jacob,

Linda-February- Simon, Rachel, The Story of Beautiful Girl, Lynnie, a young white woman is put into the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded. She meets Homan, an African American man. Deeply in love, they escape. They start a long journey. 340p. litlover.com

Kris-March- Sebold, Alice, Lovely Bones, Shockingly original and completely unforgettable, The Lovely Bones is the story of a family devastated by a gruesome murder -- a murder recounted by the teenage victim. 352p. www.litlovers.com

Karen-April- McFadden, Maryann, The Richest Season, When lonely corporate wife Joanna Harrison runs away to Pawleys Island, she has no idea what happens next. But as a new life takes root, thanks to a passionate fisherman and a commitment to save endangered turtles, demands from her old life may force her to return. The Richest Season is a stunning debut that will resonate with any woman who's ever fantasized about leaving home to find herself. 352p.

Ellen-May- Frank, Dorothy Benton, Porch Lights, May and after In the South Carolina Low country, three generations of a family--a grandmother, a mother, and a son--discover the indelible power of love as they share a memorable summer on Sullivan's Island.  324pp   litlovers.com 

Norma-June-Lannert, Stacey and Kristen Kemp, Redemption: A Story of Sisterhood, Survival, and Finding Freedom Behind Bars, On July 4, 1990, eighteen-year-old Stacey Lannert shot and killed her father, who had been sexually abusing her since she was eight.

336pp This is the book that Pat Andersen talked about at one our meetings. It is not in library. It is sold through Barnes and Noble. Please use the complete title.

Linda- July Flagg, Fannie, Fried Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café This book is the story of two women in the 1980s: of gray-headed Mrs Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women--of the irrepressibly dare devilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth--who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. 416p. litlovers.com

Sylvia August-Landay, William, Mission Flats Nothing ever happens in the sleepy backwater town of Versailles, Maine. At least, that’s what everybody thought. When Police Chief Ben Truman finds a body in the tourist cabins by Lake Mattaquisett, he is plunged headlong into a murder investigation that leads all the way into Boston Proper. 400p.

September-Trigiani, Adriana, Very Valentine, Meet the Roncalli and Angelini families, a vibrant cast of colorful characters who navigate tricky family dynamics with hilarity and brio, from magical Manhattan to the picturesque hills of bella Italia.  401p. www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?isbn13