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Tuesday Book Club

The Fellowship Book Club meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm in the Fellowship Library, and is open to all book lovers.

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."
 ~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

Here are the upcoming books to be discussed
:

April 6, 2010
The Woman Behind the New Deal:
The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance

 Kristin Downey
(available in paperback in February, 2010)


Frances Perkins, F.D.R.'s Secretary of Labor, and the first female member of a Presidential cabinet, was a key architect of the New Deal, guiding F.D.R. to enact some of his most lasting labor legislation.  Social Security, unemployment compensation, minimum wage, child labor laws, and the forty-hour workweek. Downey's biography traces Perkins's career from its beginnings (volunteer work with Jane Addams's Hull House) and vividly conveys her subject's determination and political savvy. Perkins faced many difficulties: the arrival of the Second World War shut her out of the President's inner circle; she supported a mentally ill husband and had trouble balancing work and family life. In addition, her contribution to American history has often been overshadowed by the criticism she drew as a woman in power.





May 4, 2010

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson


Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidlycrumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling)offer to resurrect his name is extended by an old-school titan of Swedish industry. The catch--and there's always a catch--is that Blomkvist must first spend a year researching a mysterious disappearance that has remained unsolved for nearly four decades. With few other options, he accepts and enlists the help of investigator Lisbeth Salander, a misunderstood genius with a cache of authority issues. Little is as it seems in Larsson's novel, but there is at least one constant: you really don't want to mess with the girl with the dragon tattoo.

June 1, 2010
Strange Angel:  The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
George Pendle


George Pendle tells Parsons's extraordinary life story for the first time. Fueled from childhood by dreams of space flight, Parsons was a crucial innovator during rocketry's birth.  But his visionary imagination also led him into the occult community thriving in 1930s Los Angeles, and when fantasy's pull became stronger than reality, he lost both his work and his wife. Parsons was just emerging from his personal underworld when he died at age thirty-seven.  In Strange Angel, Pendle recovers a fascinating life and explores the unruly consequences
of genius.


These books should all be available from the library and in paperback from your favorite bookstore. If you have a book to suggest, please let me know and we'll bring it up for a vote at our next meeting. You can reach me at ufhlibrary@comcast.net.

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