BOOK TALKS
August to October 2011
Pikeville Public Library's Book Talks group meets alternating Mondays from 5:00 to 6:00
Now available for pick up…
August 29th
Troublesome Creek by Jan Watson
Raised in the Kentucky mountains in the 1880s, Laura "Copper" Grace is faced with the prospects of losing everything she loves when her stepmother threatens to send her away to boarding school to become a lady.
September 12th
Once Upon a Time, There Was You by Elizabeth Berg
Sharing nothing in common except their 16-year-old daughter, divorced parents John and Irene reconnect in the wake of a devastating tragedy and discover things about each other that they had not revealed during their marriage.
September 26th
Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells
Louisiana, 1950s. After high school Calla Lily attends beauty school in New Orleans while her boyfriend Tuck heads to college in California. Years later Calla, a widow, returns to their hometown of La Luna. When Tuck comes home for a funeral, the two are reunited.
October 10th
I Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg
Birmingham real estate agent and former Miss Alabama Maggie Fortenberry learns valuable lessons about the nature of friendship, the challenges of modern life, and the dangers of impossible dreams as she struggles to keep Red Mountain Realty afloat and bury the heartbreaking secrets of her past.
October 24th
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit.
A note from KDLA: These kits will probably be reserved for other libraries after your checkout time, so renewals are unlikely. It will be essential that the kits be returned to Frankfort by the due date. Thank you in advance for making sure they are returned on time.