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Tip of the Month


January
Make a reading resolution. Vow to keep this one longer than the other resolutions that you have made.

February
Take a blank book and fill in the pages with some of your group's favorite recipes from your meetings. It will be another way of charting your group's "history."

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Club Meeting Recipes


Try these recipes for your next meeting.

Easy Chicken Broccoli Casserole

Hummus

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Rosie Dunne
by Cecelia Ahern


From the bestselling author of PS, I Love You comes a delightfully enchanting novel about what happens when two people who are meant to be together just can't seem to get it right. Click Here

Enter the Contest to Win 20 Copies of ROSIE DUNNE by Cecelia Ahern for Your Group
Read an excerpt of Cecelia Ahern's latest novel, Rosie Dunne, and submit your feedback about it along with your name and your mailing address to winprizes@ReadingGroupGuides.com. Click Here


Win Copies of NORTHANGER ABBEY, Featured in THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB

Ever thought about making your book club a Jane Austen Book Club? Given the success of the bestseller THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB, by Karen Joy Fowler, we're sharing with book clubs what they need to make this happen. Over the course of six months, we will publish a discussion guide that Fowler has written expressly for book clubs for one of the six Jane Austen titles mentioned in the book. Our fourth selection is NORTHANGER ABBEY. Past selections included EMMA, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY and MANSFIELD PARK.

To make this Austen celebration even more fun, we are selecting 5 groups to each win 12 copies of NORTHANGER ABBEY for their discussion. Interested? Send us your name and mailing address by writing Contest@readinggroupguides.com by February 28, 2005 to be eligible to win. See complete list of rules here.


The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón


At the first light of dawn in postwar Barcelona, a bookseller leads his motherless son to a mysterious crypt called the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. This labyrinthine sanctuary houses the books that have lost their owners, books that are no longer remembered by anyone. It is here that ten-year-old Daniel Sempere pulls a single book-The Shadow of the Wind-off of the dusty shelves to adopt as his own. With one fateful turn of a page, he begins an adventure that will unravel another man's tragedy and solve a mystery that has already taken many lives and will shape his entire future. Read more here.


Mother-Daughter Wisdom
by Christiane Northrup, M.D.


The mother-daughter relationship is at the core of every woman's physical and emotional health. Even before birth, mothers provide daughters with their first experience of nurturing. Mothers are our most powerful female role models. Now, in a revolutionary approach to well-being for women of all ages, renowned physician and bestselling author Dr. Christiane Northrup unlocks the profound wisdom and healing power of these maternal legacies. Read more here.


The Perfect Pitch
by Daniel S. Green


The Perfect Pitch is the biography of Roger Owens, the famous Peanut Man at Dodger Stadium. It is the true life story of the poor boy turned Peanut Man who has enchanted fans at Dodger Stadium for well over four decades. It is truly an inspiring story about Roger Owens, who grew up in an extremely poor family as the eldest of nine children and son of a Baptist minister, living on the tough inner city streets of Los Angeles. Read more here.


Cage's Bend
by Carter Coleman


Cage, Nick, and Harper appear to be the archetypal sons of the ideal American family of the 1960s and 70s. The firstborn, Cage, is the golden boy--star athlete and scholar, adventurous, handsome, and preternaturally popular; Nick is the quiet, late-blooming middle son, and Harper, 10 years younger, chases after his older siblings, trying not to be left out. With the tragic death of Nick in the 1980s, the breakdown of the family begins. Cage's guilt triggers incipient mental illness, and the next two decades find him swinging between mania and depression, between grim institutions and comebacks. Harper, who achieved early success on Wall Street, is torn between wanting to help his brother and seeking escape from his ghosts via an endless stream of women. Told in the alternating voices of Cage, Harper, and their parents, Cage's Bend is the story of a family damaged by tragedy and unfulfilled dreams, and renewed by the unshakable bonds of love.
Read more here.

America's Women by Gail Collins
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh
But Come Ye Back by Beth Lordan
The Canterbury Papers by Judith Healey
Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn by
Kris Radish
Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Mother-Daughter Wisdom by Christiane
Northrup, M.D.
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Perfect Pitch by Daniel S. Green
PS, I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
Rosie Dunne by Cecelia Ahern
The Same Sweet Girls by Cassandra King
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos
Ruiz Zafón
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the
Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson





The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck




The Long Goodbye

by Patti Davis




Graceland

by Chris Abani


The Dearest Dorothy Series by Charlene Ann Baumbich
For the legions of readers who enjoy books that celebrate life's simple pleasures, eighty-seven-year-old Dorothy Jean Wetstra and her beloved farming town of Partonville, Illinois, will become instant favorites. In this hilarious, touching series, Charlene Ann Baumbich introduces readers to Dearest Dorothy, who tools around town in a 1976 Lincoln Continental nicknamed "The Tank," plays bunco regularly with her pals, and grabs a stool at Harry's counter often enough to stay on top of the latest-breaking news—which she is often creating. Click here.


The Mitford Years Series by Jan Karon
Come away to Mitford, the small town that takes care of its own. Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Mitford is a crazy quilt of saints and sinners --- lovable eccentrics all. Seen through the eyes of Father Tim, the long-suffering Village Rector, Mitford abounds in both mysteries and miracles, compelling readers to return again and again to this beloved series.

In the tradition of James Herriot, Bailey White, and Garrison Keillor, author Jan Karon brilliantly captures the foibles and delights of a hilarious cast of characters. Click here.









Angels & Demons
by Dan Brown



Friday Night Lights
by H.G. Bissinger




PS, I Love You
by Cecelia Ahern



The Birth of Venus
by Sarah Dunant



The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters
by Elisabeth Robinson



The Sunday Wife
by Cassandra King



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