This is a list of the Wallingford Book Group titles for 2017. This group meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 6:45 p.m. There is no meeting in August. For more information go to www.spl.org.
Pharmaceutical professional, Dr. Marina Singh, journeys to the heart of the Amazon in search of a scientist whose two year silence bodes ill. Book discussion on January 10, 2017.
Pharmaceutical professional, Dr. Marina Singh, journeys to the heart of the Amazon in search of a scientist whose two year silence bodes ill. Book discussion on January 10, 2017.
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Pharmaceutical professional, Dr. Marina Singh, journeys to the heart of the Amazon in search of a scientist whose two year silence bodes ill. Book discussion on January 10, 2017.
Pharmaceutical professional, Dr. Marina Singh, journeys to the heart of the Amazon in search of a scientist whose two year silence bodes ill. Book discussion on January 10, 2017.
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Recruited into MI5 against a backdrop of the Cold War in 1972, Cambridge student Serena Frome, a compulsive reader, is assigned to infiltrate the literary...Show more
Recruited into MI5 against a backdrop of the Cold War in 1972, Cambridge student Serena Frome, a compulsive reader, is assigned to infiltrate the literary circle of a promising young writer whose politics align with those of the government, a situation that is compromised when she falls in love with him. Book discussion on February 14, 2017.
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Recruited into MI5 against a backdrop of the Cold War in 1972, Cambridge student Serena Frome, a compulsive reader, is assigned to infiltrate the literary...Show more
Recruited into MI5 against a backdrop of the Cold War in 1972, Cambridge student Serena Frome, a compulsive reader, is assigned to infiltrate the literary circle of a promising young writer whose politics align with those of the government, a situation that is compromised when she falls in love with him. Book discussion on February 14, 2017.
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Nobody guesses at the unplumbed depths hidden behind the veiled eyes of the self-taught drudge Renée or the precociously suicidal 12-year-old Paloma, until one man takes a closer look. Book discussion on March 14, 2017.
Nobody guesses at the unplumbed depths hidden behind the veiled eyes of the self-taught drudge Renée or the precociously suicidal 12-year-old Paloma, until one man takes a closer look. Book discussion on March 14, 2017.
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Nobody guesses at the unplumbed depths hidden behind the veiled eyes of the self-taught drudge Renée or the precociously suicidal 12-year-old Paloma, until one man takes a closer look. Book discussion on March 14, 2017.
Nobody guesses at the unplumbed depths hidden behind the veiled eyes of the self-taught drudge Renée or the precociously suicidal 12-year-old Paloma, until one man takes a closer look. Book discussion on March 14, 2017.
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Marlow, working for an ivory company, is assigned to travel into the African interior to retrieve a stranded cargo boat; along the way he witnesses the br...Show more
Marlow, working for an ivory company, is assigned to travel into the African interior to retrieve a stranded cargo boat; along the way he witnesses the brutal treatment of the African by the whites, as well as white men "going native." Book discussion on April 11, 2017.
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Marlow, working for an ivory company, is assigned to travel into the African interior to retrieve a stranded cargo boat; along the way he witnesses the br...Show more
Marlow, working for an ivory company, is assigned to travel into the African interior to retrieve a stranded cargo boat; along the way he witnesses the brutal treatment of the African by the whites, as well as white men "going native." Book discussion on April 11, 2017.
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Angela Flournoy's multi-generational family drama focuses on the Turners, who have lived on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house has seen thirt...Show more
Angela Flournoy's multi-generational family drama focuses on the Turners, who have lived on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house has seen thirteen children grown and flown; the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit's East Side, and the loss of a father. When Turner matriarch Viola is forced to move in with her eldest son, the family discovers that the house is worth just a fraction of its mortgage and Viola's children are called home to decide its fate. The Turners must reckon with how their past haunts-and shapes-their future. Book discussion on May 9, 2017.
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Angela Flournoy's multi-generational family drama focuses on the Turners, who have lived on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house has seen thirt...Show more
Angela Flournoy's multi-generational family drama focuses on the Turners, who have lived on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house has seen thirteen children grown and flown; the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit's East Side, and the loss of a father. When Turner matriarch Viola is forced to move in with her eldest son, the family discovers that the house is worth just a fraction of its mortgage and Viola's children are called home to decide its fate. The Turners must reckon with how their past haunts-and shapes-their future. Book discussion on May 9, 2017.
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When nine-year-old Eliza Naumann - who has always been out of step with her brilliant parents and older brother - begins winning one spelling bee after an...Show more
When nine-year-old Eliza Naumann - who has always been out of step with her brilliant parents and older brother - begins winning one spelling bee after another (her school, district, and state), her success sets off a series of events that shake the family to its roots. Book discussion June 13, 2017.
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When nine-year-old Eliza Naumann - who has always been out of step with her brilliant parents and older brother - begins winning one spelling bee after an...Show more
When nine-year-old Eliza Naumann - who has always been out of step with her brilliant parents and older brother - begins winning one spelling bee after another (her school, district, and state), her success sets off a series of events that shake the family to its roots. Book discussion June 13, 2017.
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Forty-one years old, unmarried, and pregnant, Julia Ives fears she'll be unable to nurture her child unless she comes to terms with her own past; she retu...Show more
Forty-one years old, unmarried, and pregnant, Julia Ives fears she'll be unable to nurture her child unless she comes to terms with her own past; she returns to her childhood home of Spokane, Washington, to confront her family. Book discussion on July 11, 2017.
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Forty-one years old, unmarried, and pregnant, Julia Ives fears she'll be unable to nurture her child unless she comes to terms with her own past; she retu...Show more
Forty-one years old, unmarried, and pregnant, Julia Ives fears she'll be unable to nurture her child unless she comes to terms with her own past; she returns to her childhood home of Spokane, Washington, to confront her family. Book discussion on July 11, 2017.
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In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. Looking back from adulthood, the narrator relates a tale about the ...Show more
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. Looking back from adulthood, the narrator relates a tale about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a sea voyage.(NoveList description, 12/13) Book discussion on September 12, 2017.
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In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. Looking back from adulthood, the narrator relates a tale about the ...Show more
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. Looking back from adulthood, the narrator relates a tale about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a sea voyage.(NoveList description, 12/13) Book discussion on September 12, 2017.
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In a sweeping historical novel set in 16th century Spain, Peru, and Chile, Allende tells the real-life saga of seamstress Ines Suarez, known as the founding mother of Chile. Book discussion on October 10, 2017.
In a sweeping historical novel set in 16th century Spain, Peru, and Chile, Allende tells the real-life saga of seamstress Ines Suarez, known as the founding mother of Chile. Book discussion on October 10, 2017.
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In a sweeping historical novel set in 16th century Spain, Peru, and Chile, Allende tells the real-life saga of seamstress Ines Suarez, known as the founding mother of Chile. Book discussion on October 10, 2017.
In a sweeping historical novel set in 16th century Spain, Peru, and Chile, Allende tells the real-life saga of seamstress Ines Suarez, known as the founding mother of Chile. Book discussion on October 10, 2017.
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When black slave owner and former slave Henry Townsend dies, his widow Caldonia mismanages their antebellum Virginia plantation, with disastrous results. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Book discussion on November 14, 2017
When black slave owner and former slave Henry Townsend dies, his widow Caldonia mismanages their antebellum Virginia plantation, with disastrous results. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Book discussion on November 14, 2017
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When black slave owner and former slave Henry Townsend dies, his widow Caldonia mismanages their antebellum Virginia plantation, with disastrous results. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Book discussion on November 14, 2017
When black slave owner and former slave Henry Townsend dies, his widow Caldonia mismanages their antebellum Virginia plantation, with disastrous results. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Book discussion on November 14, 2017
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A medic travels to an orphanage in the Balkans, her elderly grandfather inexplicably leaves home to die, and the people of former Yugoslavia cling to thei...Show more
A medic travels to an orphanage in the Balkans, her elderly grandfather inexplicably leaves home to die, and the people of former Yugoslavia cling to their myths as they all eke out a stark and confusing post-war existence. Book discussion on December 12, 2017.
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A medic travels to an orphanage in the Balkans, her elderly grandfather inexplicably leaves home to die, and the people of former Yugoslavia cling to thei...Show more
A medic travels to an orphanage in the Balkans, her elderly grandfather inexplicably leaves home to die, and the people of former Yugoslavia cling to their myths as they all eke out a stark and confusing post-war existence. Book discussion on December 12, 2017.
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