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Sisterhood Book List Sept 2009 – July 2010

Sisterhood Book List Sept 2009 – July 2010

 

We meet at Beth Israel Synagogue at 7:30 pm

Sept. 21, 2009 (Mon) Rashi's Daughters, Book I: Joheved: A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Medieval France by Maggie Anton  Paperback 386 pages   Publisher: Banot Press (January 1, 2005)

Oct. 19, 2009 (Mon)   A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua (Author), Hillel Halkin (Translator)   Paperback 256 pages   Publisher: Harvest Books; Reprint edition (August 6, 2007)

 

Nov. 18, 2009 (Wed)  The World to Come: A Novel  by Dara Horn  Paperback: 320 pages   Publisher: W. W. Norton (October 9, 2006)

 

Dec 14, 2009 (Mon)    Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia  by Tony Horwitz, Paperback  288 pages  Publisher: Plume (January 1, 1992)

 

January 2010              Water for Elephants: A Novel  by Sara Gruen  Paperback 331 p  Publisher: Algonquin Books (April 9, 2007)

 

February 2010            Moscow Rules, Daniel Silva, Paperback  528 pages  Publisher: Signet; Reprint edition (June 30, 2009)

 

March 2010                     People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks  Paperback 400 pages  Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); Reprint edition (December 30, 2008)  ** WOMEN’S LEAGUE SELECTION**

 

April 2010                   Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay  Paperback 320 pages Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition (September 30, 2008)

 

May 2010                    Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, by Elizabeth Kolbert, Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (March 7, 2006)

 

June 2010                   The Dark Sister by Rebecca Goldstein(Library of American Fiction)  Paperback 304 pages  Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press; 1st edition (May 15, 2004)

 

 

 

Sept 2010                   Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible (P.S.), by David Plotz, Hardcover (Paperback will be released on February 23, 2010). 320 pages. Publisher Harper Perennial (February 23, 2010)