Book Club

We currently meet at 6:30 pm. at Panera Bread (Lincoln Highway-Rt 30 and Cicero Avenue).  Thursday, February 28 will be our last meeting for a while.  Sign up to be a member below and we will notify you when the Book Club resumes.

Thursday, February 28, The Chemist by Stephanie Meyer

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Thursday, February 28, 2019 -  

The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer

In this gripping page-turner, an ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life.

She used to work for the U.S. government, but very few people ever knew that. An expert in her field, she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn't even have a name. And when they decided she was a liability, they came for her without warning.

Now she rarely stays in the same place or uses the same name for long. They've killed the only other person she trusted, but something she knows still poses a threat. They want her dead, and soon.

When her former handler offers her a way out, she realizes it's her only chance to erase the giant target on her back. But it means taking one last job for her ex-employers. To her horror, the information she acquires only makes her situation more dangerous.

Resolving to meet the threat head-on, she prepares for the toughest fight of her life but finds herself falling for a man who can only complicate her likelihood of survival. As she sees her choices being rapidly whittled down, she must apply her unique talents in ways she never dreamed of.

In this tautly plotted novel, Meyer creates a fierce and fascinating new heroine with a very specialized skill set. And she shows once again why she's one of the world's bestselling authors.

January 24, 2019 - The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy
November 15, 2018 - Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith OBrien
October 25, 2018 - The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
September 27, 2018 - A Little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley
August 23, 2018 - Hillbilly Elegy-A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
July 26, 2018 - The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
June 28, 2018 - River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
May 26, 2018 - Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
April 26, 2018 - The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
March 22, 2018 - The Nightingale: a Novel by Kristi Hannah
February 22, 2018 - The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama Desond Tutu and Douglas Abrams
January 25, 2018 -   Run by Ann Patchett
November 16, 2017 - The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
October 26, 2017 - Dragon Teeth by Michael Creichton
September 28, 2017 - Wildest Dreams by Robyn Carr 
July 27, 2017 - Morning Glory by LaVerle Spencer
June 22, 2017 - The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
May 25, 2017 - Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shatterly
April 27, 2017 - The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

March 23, 2017 - A Town Like Alice by Nevil Schute
February 23, 2017 - The Whistler by John Grisham
January 26, 2017 - Children of Men by P.D. James
November 17, 2016 - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
October 27, 2016 - Headhunters by Jo Nesbo
September 22, 2016 - Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall
August 25, 2016 - Ender's Game by Orson Scott Cards
July 28, 2016 - You Before Me by JoJo Moyes
June 23, 2016 - The Fifth Gospel  by Ian Caldwell
May 26, 2016 - The Monument Men  by Robert M Edsel
April 28, 2016 - The Witches: Salem, 1692  by Stacy Schiff
March 24, 2016 - The Martian  by Andy Weir
February 25, 2016 - Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Havenby Susan Shreve
January 28, 2016 - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry  by Mildred D. Taylor
November 19, 2015 - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullough
October 22,2015 - A Country of Strangers by Susan Richard Shreve
September 24, 2015 - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
August 27, 2015 - The Secret Lives of Bees by Susan Monk Kidd
July 27, 2015 - The Shack by Wm. Paul Young
June, 2015 - Love in the Time of Cholera  by  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
May, 2015 - NYPD Red 3 by James Patterson and Marshall Karp
April 2015 - The Fallen Man by Tony Hillerman
March, 2015 - The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick
February, 2015 - American Sniper by Chris Kyle
January, 2015 - The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak
December, 2014 - No meeting
November 20, 2014 - Wild:  From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
October 23, 2014 - The Alchemist by Paulo Coeho
September 25  2014 - The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
August 28, 2014 - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
July 24, 2014 - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
June 26, 2014 - Divergent by Veronica Roth
May 22, 2014 - One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
April 24, 2014 - The Poisenwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
March 27, 2014 - The Firm by John Grisham
February 27, 2014 - The Stranger by Albert Camus
January 23, 2014 - Devil in a White City by Erik Larson
December, 2013 - No meeting
November 21, 2013 - Where are the Children by Mary Higgins Clark
October 24, 2013 – Revolutionary Road  by Richard Yates
September 26, 2013 - Native Son by Richard Wright
August 15, 2013 - Native Tongue by Carl Hiaason
July 25, 2013 - Life of Pi  by Yann Martel
June 25, 2013 - The Kite Runner  by Khaled Hosseini 
May 23, 2013 - Unbroken  by Laura Hillenbrand
April 25, 2013 - The Next Time You See Me by Holly Goddard Jones
March 21, 2013 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
February 28, 2013 - No Easy Day by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer
January 24, 2013 - Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
December, 2013 - No meeting
November 15, 2012 - Nop's Trials by Donald McCaig
October 25, 2012 - The Other Wes Moore  by Wes Moore
September 27, 2012 - The Host  by Stephanie Meyer
August 27, 2012 - The Pacific Vortex  by Clive Cussler
July 26, 2012 - A Tale of Two Cities  by Charles Dickens
June 26, 2012 - The Lucky One  by Nicholas Sparks
May 24, 2012 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
April 26, 2012 - The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
March 22, 2012 - The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo by Stieg Larsson
February 23, 2012 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
January 26, 2012 - Mountain Windsong: A Novel of the Trail of Tears by Robert Conley
December 22, 2012 - Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
November 17, 2011 - High Five by Janet Evanovich
October 27, 2011 - The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Stockett
September 22, 2011 - The Help by Kathryn Stockett
August 25, 2011 - The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
July 28, 2011 -The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
June 16, 2011 -The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

GSU applauds its manyalumni authors.  If you have authored and published a book, please let us know.