Literary Parties
2011 LITERARY PARTIES
From Last Year's List - January 2011
Carolyn - Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Barbara Robinson
Galina - Galina Vishnevskaya
Susan WR - Confessions of an Advertising Man - David Ogilvy
Susan R - Cane River - Lalita Tademy *
Betty Sue - Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer *
Alliee - Madam Guyon Autobiography
Botany - February 2011
Alliee - Keeping a Nature Journal - Clare Walker Leslie & Charles E. Rose
Carolyn - The Tree - John Fowles
Justin - Putting in the Seed - Robert Frost
The Trees - Joyce Kilmer
Betty Sue - The Star Thrower - Loren Eiseley
Susan - The Dragon Seed - Pearl Buck *
The Orchid Thief - Susan Orlean
People Who Make a Difference - March 2011
Carolyn - Three Cups of Tea & Stones into Schools - Greg Mortenson *
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire - Rafe Esquite
Harvest Hope - Jane Goodall
Susan WR - Money by the Mouthfull - Robert Nara
Vi - George Mueller's Autobiography
Diet for a New America - Robinson
Alliee - Tattoos on the Heart - Gregory Boyle
Justin - The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk - Susan McDogal
Krista - Jesus for President - Shane Clalborne
Read More Than Once - April 2011
Alliee - Bible *
Vi - To Have or To Be - Eric Fromm
Languishing - May 2011
Susan - Eat by Choice Not by Habit
Marilyn - Menonite In A Memoir - Rhoda Jansen
Little Black Dress
Carolyn - Memoirs of Anne Rice
Vi - To Have or To Be - Eric Fromm
Justin - Biography of Picasso
Kidnapped - Robert Lewis Stevenson
Patriana
Krista - Great Expectations - Dickens
Gulag Archipelago - Solzhenitsyn
The Large Catecchism - Luther
Don Quixote
Alliee - The Letters of Dorothy Sayers 1937 - 1943
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Family Camp Lit Party 2011
Calvin - The Last of the Breed - Louis L'Amour
Sheila - Unbroken
When I'm Done Talking You'll know I'm Done - Jerry Weintraub
Karen - Desert Wife
A Stay Against Confusions - Ron Hansen -- also Exiles and Atticus
Carolyn - Galina
? - Rees Howells Intercessor - Norman Grubb
Summer Reading - July 2011
Justin - Ride the Wind - Lucia St. Clair Robson
Those who Love - Irving Stone
A Prime Minister on Prime Minister - Harold Wilson
Alliee - The Curious Incedent of the Dog in The Night Time - Mark Hadden
Carolyn - Even Money - Dick Francis
Blue Like Jazz - Don Miller *
Susan R - The Cardinal's Snuff Box - Henry Harland
Vi - Love at First Site
Susan WR - Ice Fire - Chris D'Lacey
Lark Light - Philip Reeve
Change your Brain, Change your Body - Dr. Daniel Amen
Art - August 2011
Carolyn - Davinci Code - Dan Brown *
Landscape of Lies - Peter Watson
Breaking Ground - Daniel Liebaskind
Susan - Writing about Art - Henrey Sayre
Papermaking Techniques - Plowman
Vi - The Virgen of Bennington - Kathleen Norris
Letters to a Young Artist - Rinier Rilke
Justin - Enjoying Fine Arts - Sarah Newmeyer
Krista - In Der Feirstunde - J.W. Theiss
Antiquities - September 2011
Susan - The Mildenhall Treasure - Ronald Dahl
The Urban Treasure Hunter - Michael Chaplan
Musical Instruments - Mary Remnant
Carolyn - Sarum; a Novel of Novel - Edmund Rutherford
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant *
The Egyptian - Mika Waltan
Justin - the King Must Die - Mary Renault *
The Death of the Gods - Merezhkovsky
Alliee - Romans - Barclay *
Animals - October 2011
Carolyn - All Creatures Great and Small - James Herriot *
Alliee - The Lion the Withch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis *
Susan - Book of Dun Cow, Book of Sorrows - Walter Wangerine *
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
Justin - Brave Bulls - Tom Lea
Krista - Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Graham *
Dick K. Smith books
Carolyn - Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams Bianco
My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell
When Elephants Weep; the Emotional Lives of Animals - Jeffrey Masson
Vi - Black Beauty - Ann Sewell
Charlott's Web - E.B. White
19th Century French Literature - November 2011
Justin - The Immortal; the Struggle for Life - Alphonse Daudet
Vi - George Sand - Intimate Journal of George Sand
Alliee - Three Muskateers - Alexander Dumas
Christmas Books - December 2011
Alliee - The Christmas Blizzard - Garrison Keillor
Justin - The Battle of Life; a Love Story - Charles Dickens
Vi - Christmas Book - Martin Luther
Christmas with Paula Deen
Carolyn - Best Christmas Pagent Ever - Barbara Robinson
Christmas Tapestry - Patricia Polacco
Julie - The Gift of the Magi - O'Henry
2010 LITERARY PARTIES
From 2009 List - January 2010
Carolyn - Bride of Lammermoor - Sir Walter Scott
- Peace Like a River - Leif Enger
- Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer
Justin - Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
- Inventing the Truth - Russell Baker
Susan - Diana - Andrew Morton
- Big Men Big country - Paul Robert Walker
Ward - Seeker
Alliee - Waking the Dead - John Eldredge
First Books - February 2010
Ward - Gilgamesh (oldest work of fiction) Sumerian
Carolyn - Lion Witch and Wardrobe - CS Lewis (First children's story Lewis wrote)
- Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen (First novel written by a woman in English)
- Tutor's First Love - George MacDonald
- A Child is Born - Lennart Nilsson (First photography of developing fetus.)
Justin - Beowolf
- Pamela - Sam Richardson (First Romantic Novel)
Susan - Plato's Republic
- Rawsome Recipes - Robyn Boyd (First Raw food)
Alliee - Winne the Pooh - AA Milne (first trademark characters)
Short Stories - March 2010
Susan - Mark Twain
Justin - Flannery O' Connor - Everything that Rises Must Converge
Carolyn - Bret Harte
- Hawthorne
- Ursula LeGuin
Alliee - Hawk & Dove - Penelope Wilcock
- Ray Bradbury
Presidents, Popes & Politicians - April 2010
Justin - Federalist Papers - Hamilton, Madison, Jay
- A Tale of Two Lovers - Pope Pius II
Susan - Benjamin Franklin - (Great Courses) Classics of American Literature
Alliee - Crossing the Threshold of Hope - John Paul II
Carolyn - In His Footsteps
Black Authors - May 2010
Susan - John Henry - Julius Lester, Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
- Sounder - William H. Armstrong (Audio, Movie, Book)
- The Blues of Flats Brown - Walter Dean Meyers
- On Writing for People and Other People - Julius Lester
Alliee - Color of Water - James McBride
- Measure of a Man - Sidney Poitier
Justin - Color Purple - Alice Walker
- Short Stories - Erskine Caldwell
Carolyn - Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
-Caine River - Lalita Tademy
Family Camp Healing - July 2010
Christ the Healer Bosworth
Freedom Tools Andy Reese
Sermons John G Lake
29 Gifts Cami Walker
French Literature - July 2010
Vi - Madame Guyon Her Autobiography
Susan - Experiencing the Depths of Jesus Christ - Jeanne Guyon
- Let Go - Fenelon
Justin - The Latin Quarter - Henry Murger
- The Lady of the Camelias - Alexander Dumas
Carolyn - (books in French--showoff) Sand, Wind & Stars - A. De Saint-Exupery
Alliee - The Stranger - Albert Camus
Whatever You're Reading - August 2010
Susan - West of Eden - Harry Harrison
- Stones of Jerusalem - Bode & Brock Thoene
- Under the Dome - Steven King
Carolyn - A Respectable Trade - Philippa Gregory
- Mahler; His life, work & World - Kurt & Herta Blaukopf
Justin - Baudelaire - Enid Starkie
- Halsey's Typhoon; The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue - Bob Drury & Tom Clavin
Alliee - Searching for God Knows What - Donald Miller
- Beauty of Spiritual Language; Understanding the Mystery of Speaking in Tongues - Jack Hayford
Letters - September 2010
Vi - Letters to an American Lady CS Lewis
Justin - Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elenore Pruit Stewart
- Letters of Thackeray - William Makepeace Thackeray
Alliee - The Habit of Being Letters of Flannery O'Conner - Sally Fitzgerald
- Letters of EB White
Susan - The Wednesday Letters - Jason F Wright
Business Books October 2010
Justin - Confessions of an Advertising Man - David Ogilvy
Krista - Boundaries - Cloud & Townsend
Susan - Personal Finances for Dummies
Carolyn - Moneyman - Thomas costain
Alliee - Blink - Malcom Gladwell
Vi - Self Employment Test
- Andre Meyer - Cary Reich
Justin - Maestro - Bob Woodrow
Music - November 2010
Alliee - The Sacred Circle - Alliee DeArmond
Carolyn - The Piano Shop on the Left Bank - Thad Carhart
- Come and go Molly Snow by Mary Ann Taylor-Hall,
- Musicophilia - Oliver Sacks
- The Spiritual Lives of Great Commposers - Patrick Kavanaugh
- Nothing but the Best - Judith Kogan
Susan - The Life and Works of Chopin - Siepmann, Lesser, Jason, Claxton, Archer, audiobook
Christmas - December 2010
Carolyn - Christmas stories of George MacDonald
- Amahl and the Night Visitors illustrated by Michele Lemieux opera Gian Carlo Menotti
- The Other Wise Man
- Christmas Tapestry by Patricia Polacco
Justin - Rumple Christmas Stories by John Mortimer
- Charles Dickens Collection Christmas Stories
- Book of Matthew 1611 Authorized Version
Alliee - The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
- Book of Jesus by Calvin Miller
Vi - The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
- Christmas at the New Yorker
- The Nativity Story (Movie)
NEWSLETTER:
David Hoff - Merry Christmas, Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola.
- Country Angel Christmas by Tomie dePaola.
-The Little Boy's Christmas Gift by John Spiers.
- Night Tree by Eve Bunting.
- Why a Donkey was Chosen by Christopher Gregorowski
- The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
- Faces At The Manger by J. Barrie Shepherd
Mary Kate - A Miserable Merry Christmas - Lincoln Steffens
