PHS McLean Library Book Group "Stories From the Garden": Current Year

July 25, 2024.
Howard G. 384 pp. Discussion Leader: Carolyn W.
Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company.

October 3, 2024
Janet 343 p.
Set deep in the Appalachian wilderness between the years of 1779 and 1784, The Land Breakers is a saga like the Norse sagas or the book of Genesis, a story of first and last things, of the violence of birth and death, of inescapable sacrifice and the faltering emergence of community.

November 7, 2024
Suzanne F. 224 p. Discussion Leader: Suzanne
From the acclaimed author of Brothers and To Live: a major new novel that limns the joys and sorrows of life in contemporary China.

December 5, 2024
Suzanne F. 30 p
Participants will receive a copy of this poem

January 2, 2025
Janet 208 p.
Join the fun in talking about Simon Armitage's brilliant translation of one of English literature's greatest poems -- a strange story of a green knight and his fateful wager.

February 6, 2025
Barbara B. 260 p.
Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, 17-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey.

April 3, 2025
Carolyn B. 302 p. Discussion leader: Mary Ellen
Teenager John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers, has nothing left to stay for. Across the border Mexico beckons—beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. With neighbor Rawlins, and scruffy boy, he rides toward an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.

May 1, 2025