Tuesday Night Miracles

In this poignant and transformative novel, bestselling author Kris Radish weaves a tale of five women yearning for change—and the potential for happiness that lies within every heart.

Free-spirited psychologist Dr. Olivia Bayer suspects she’ll need a miracle to help the four wildly different women in her anger management class. Grace, a single working mother, can barely find a moment’s rest. Jane, a high-profile real estate agent, is struggling in the recession. Kit, in her fifties, has had it with her taunting older brothers. And Leah, a young mother of two, is starting over after ending a troubled relationship. All have reached a crossroads, and Dr. Bayer has an unconventional plan to steer them on the right track. As the class gets taken everywhere from a bowling alley to a shooting range, the women’s Tuesday meetings transform from tense, reluctant gatherings into richly rewarding experiments in female bonding. As Grace, Jane, Kit, and Leah open up—revealing secrets, swapping stories, and recovering long-lost dreams—old wounds begin to heal, new friendships are forged, and miracles manifest in the most surprising ways.  Look inside

Our next hostess is.....Mary Marotta

Our next Book Club Selection is : Tuesday Night of Miracles : a Novel    by Kris Radish

The Fall Schedule for 2012

October  21st or 28th ..............Susan Torosian

November 25th or Dec 2nd ....Joyce Charpentier

December is a Pass.

Happy New Year 2013 !!!!! 

January 27th..... 2013 ......Sylvia Pepin and Nicole Harris

Summer Reading - Enjoy

A few suggestions......
Oprah's Summer Reading List 
See O's 2012 summer reading list 

Next book club is August 26th at Elizabeth Raymond's House.

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Need help getting library books on your mobile device?
Here are the steps from the Leominster Public Library (hours and free wifi now available)  and I have also posted under the e-books device tab on this site.  You can also visit the library for assistance.
 Library Books on your iPad  (using your library card number) - posted July 2012 - Go to the Leominster Library
CWMARS digital catalog http://digitalcatalog.cwmars.org 
link to help/faq's for other devices.

1. INSTALL the mobile app OverDrive powered site
   - Apple Apps Store Download Overdrive for the iPad from the Apps Store
   or Android Market or other
2. AUTHORIZE
   - Go to the app setting and find the authorize section
   - ENTER our Adobe IS and password
   If you do not have one select register at Adobe.com
   Follow the directions to sign up for and Adobe ID
   In the OverDrive Media Console go back to the App Sessing
   Enter the email address and password for you new accoung
   Click Authorize
3. VISIT your library Virtual Branch  
   - Use the "Get Books" option in the app, and search for a library by name or ZIP
   For Leominster area go to http://digitalcatalog.cwmars.org
   - Browse or a title (not epub for Apple) you alos have an option to download a Kindle App for the iPad if there are more Kindle book options. (Note you can also be put on a wait list)
   - Check out with your information
   - Download the title (the app will automatically open) most books 14 days sign-out options
4. ENJOY on your device 

Leominster Public Schools Summer Reading List 2012

Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo

Our next meeting is.....May 20th 7pm

Our next hostess is.....Julie Bigelow

Our next Book Club Selection is : Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back by Todd Burpo

A beautifully written glimpse into heaven that will encourage those who doubt and thrill those who believe." -Ron Hall, coauthor of Same Kind of Different as Me "Do you remember the hospital, Colton?" Sonja said. "Yes, mommy, I remember," he said. "That's where the angels sang to me." When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. What they weren't expecting, though, was the story that emerged in the months that followed-a story as beautiful as it was extraordinary, detailing their little boy's trip to heaven and back. Colton, not yet four years old, told his parents he left his body during the surgery-and authenticated that claim by describing exactly what his parents were doing in another part of the hospital while he was being operated on. He talked of visiting heaven and relayed stories told to him by people he met there whom he had never met in life, sharing events that happened even before he was born. He also astonished his parents with descriptions and obscure details about heaven that matched the Bible exactly, though he had not yet learned to read.

With disarming innocence and the plainspoken boldness of a child, Colton tells of meeting long-departed family members. He describes Jesus, the angels, how "really, really big" God is, and how much God loves us. Retold by his father, but using Colton's uniquely simple words, Heaven Is for Real offers a glimpse of the world that awaits us, where as Colton says, "Nobody is old and nobody wears glasses." Heaven Is for Real will forever change the way you think of eternity, offering the chance to see, and believe, like a child.

Watch trailers here Video 1 , interview video and discussion questions

Copies of this book are available through the the Leominster Public Library.
NEW Link How to download e-books from the Public Library to the ipad

Our next hostess is :
June 24th .......Elizabeth Raymond
July is a Pass (Have a great summer and be ready to share any good books you read over the summer in August!)

Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks

Caleb's Crossing  Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.

The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe's shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb's crossing of cultures.

Like Brooks's beloved narrator Anna in Year of Wonders, Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wilds of Martha's Vineyard and the intimate spaces of the human heart. Evocative and utterly absorbing, Caleb's Crossing further establishes Brooks's place as one of our most acclaimed novelists. Book club questions and learn more about the author.

Next book club is April 29th ..................Julie Bigelow

Upcoming dates:

May 20th ....................Paula Mansour

June 24th...................Elizabeth Raymond
July - break no book club

August

September

Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond

Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond

Breaking nearly eight decades of silence, Essie Mae Washington–Williams comes forward with a story of unique historical magnitude and incredible human drama. Her father, the late Strom Thurmond, was once the nation's leading voice for racial segregation (one of his signature political achievements was his 24–hour filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957, done in the name of saving the South from "mongrelization"). Her mother, however, was a black teenager named Carrie Butler who worked as a maid on the Thurmond family's South Carolina plantation. Set against the explosively changing times of the civil rights movement, this poignant memoir recalls how she struggled with the discrepancy between the father she knew–one who was financially generous, supportive of her education, even affectionate–and the Old Southern politician, railing against greater racial equality, who refused to acknowledge her publicly. From her richly told narrative, as well as the letters she and Thurmond wrote to each other over the years, emerges a nuanced, fascinating portrait of a father who counseled his daughter about her dreams and goals, and supported her in reaching them–but who was unwilling to break with the values of his Dixiecrat constituents. With elegance, dignity, and candor, Washington–Williams gives us a chapter of American history as it has never been written before–told in a voice that will be heard and cherished by future generations.Selected by Fran, she has also provided several copies of the book.  Next Book club - Sunday 3/25/2012 at Lori Roy's House.

Same Kind of Different As Me

Same Kind of Different As Me
Overview - Meet Denver, a man raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana in the 1960s; a man who escaped, hopping a train to wander, homeless, for eighteen years on the streets of Dallas, Texas. No longer a slave, Denver's life was still hopeless-until God moved. First came a godly woman who prayed, listened, and obeyed. And then came her husband, Ron, an international arts dealer at home in a world of Armani-suited millionaires. And then they all came together.  But slavery takes many forms. Deborah discovers that she has cancer. In the face of possible death, she charges her husband to rescue Denver. Who will be saved, and who will be lost? What is the future for these unlikely three? What is God doing?

Same Kind of Different As Me is the emotional tale of their story: a telling of pain and laughter, doubt and tears, dug out between the bondages of this earth and the free possibility of heaven. No reader or listener will ever forget it

Next book club is February 26th.........Fran Cooley

The Goodbye Quilt by Susan Wiggs

The Goodbye Quilt by Susan Wiggs -Linda Davis's local fabric shop is a place where women gather to share their creations: wedding quilts, baby quilts, memorial quilts, each bound tight with dreams, hopes and yearnings.

Now, as her only child readies for college, Linda is torn between excitement for Molly and heartache for herself. Who will she be when she is no longer needed in her role as mom?
As mother and daughter embark on a cross-country road trip to move Molly into her dorm, Linda pieces together the scraps that make up Molly's young life—the hem of a christening gown, a snippet from a Halloween costume. And in the stitching of each bit of fabric, Linda discovers that the memories of a shared journey can come together in a way that will keep them both warm in the years to come….
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0778313220/ref=rdr_ext_tmb

Our Next Meeting is January 29th 2012 ...........Kelly Bell 

Other Meetings 

February 26th.........Fran Cooley 

March 25th ...............Laurie Roy 

April 29th ..................Julie Bigelow

May 20th ....................Paula Mansour

June 24th...................Elizabeth Raymond