Spring and Summer Book Group at the Seattle Public Library
LEAP is the Library Equal Access Program. On the 2nd Tuesday of each month, they meet on Level 4, Room 5 of the main branch of the Seattle Public Library. For more information, please contact leap@spl.org.
| July 13 | Lottery Patricia Wood |
Perry Crandall has an IQ of 76, but is not retarded, as he'll have you know: his IQ would need to be less than 75 for that, and he knows the difference. When he wins $12 million in the lottery, everyone is paying attention to him, but who can he trust? Even his friends from the marine supply store behave differently, and on top of everything else, Perry finds himself falling for a woman with problems of her own. |
| August 10 | Pegasus Descending James Burke |
Detective Dave Robicheaux senses a storm bearing down on his placid life. Twenty-five years ago, lost in a drunken haze in Florida, Robicheaux was too far gone to save his friend, who was murdered in cold blood for gambling debts. Now, the arrival of Dallas's daughter opens a door locked long ago, and extracting her motives points Robicheaux to the suicide of a local "good girl" pulled into a vortex of power, sex--and death. |
| September 21 *(Meets 3rd Tuesday)* |
Five Quarters of the Orange Joanna Harris |
Returning to the small Loire village of her childhood to run a cafe, Franboise Dartigen soon finds that hidden among her mother's recipes are clues that will lead her to the truth of long ago. |
| October 12 | March Geraldine Brooks |
March leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War, but his experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. |
| November 9 | The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls |
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a penetrating look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who hated anything to do with domesticity. The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered. |
| December 14 | Born on a Blue Day Daniel Tammet |
One of the world's fifty living autistic savants is the first and only to tell his compelling and inspiring life story---and explain how his incredible mind works. |
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