Category Archives: Book Group
Pinot & Prose Book Club selection – May 2024
Publisher Comments “In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it … Continue reading
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Pinot & Prose Book Club – Spring & Summer Reading Selections
March: In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut-Opdyke and Jennifer Armstrong Publisher’s Comments: “An utterly amazing, true, first-person account of one girl’s experience in wartime. Irene Gut Opdyke was a Catholic Polish nursing student when WWII … Continue reading
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Pinot & Prose Book Club Selection for February 2024 – One Long River of Song by Brian Doyle
Publisher Comments: “From a “born storyteller” (Seattle Times), this playful and moving bestselling book of essays invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of everyday life. When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout … Continue reading
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Pinot & Prose Book Club Selection — Dec/Jan 2024
Publisher comments: “The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America. In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home … Continue reading
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Pinot & Prose Book Club – Fall Reading Selections
For September – Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson Publisher Comments: “September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the … Continue reading
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Pinot & Prose Book Club — Summer selection
We’ve selected this book for our summer read but we’re also sure many of you will read plenty of others. We’d love to hear from you about your favorites this summer as we reconvene in August and begin to compile … Continue reading
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Pinot & Prose Book Club – Summer 2023 Selections
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett Publisher Comments: “Ann Patchett, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth, delivers her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their … Continue reading
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Pinot & Prose Book Club Selection – April 2023
Bad Blood – A Walk Along the Irish Border by Colm Toibin Publisher’s Synopsis: “Soon after the Anglo-Irish agreement, [1985] Colm Toibin travelled along the Irish border from Derry to Newry. In this work he tells of fear and anger, … Continue reading
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Pinot & Prose Book Club selection – March 2023
Fuzz, When Nature Breaks the Rules by Mary Roach Publisher Comments: “What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned … Continue reading
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Pinot & Prose Book Club Selection — February 2023
February 2023: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens Synopsis: “For years, rumors of the Marsh Girl have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately … Continue reading
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