2009-2010 Schedule
September 9: 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos by Jennett Conant
Reviewer: Ken Krane and Paula
October 14: Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
Reviewer: Robert Gardner
November 18: Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer by Shannon Brownlee
Reviewer: Cosimo Storniolo
December 9: As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires by Bruce Weber
Reviewer: Mike Parker
January 13: Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Reviewer: Margaret Anderson
February 10: My Antonia by Willa Cather
Reviewer: Penny Brassfield
March 10: Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie Chang
Reviewer: Sandie Helmick
April 14: Two Wheels North: Bicycling the West Coast in 1909 by Evelyn McDaniel Gibb
Reviewer: Corrine Gobeli
May 12: Savages and Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America’s Road to Empire Through Indian Territory by Paul VanDevelder
Reviewer: John Byrne
June 9: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Reviewer: Nancy Rosenberger
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