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VB Reads...Motherhood By the Book

Calling all moms, whether you be mother or stepmother to an infant, toddler, tween, or adolescent, we have a new book group at the store just for us!

Motherhood by the Book is led by Claire, VB staffer, mother of a toddler, and stepmother of an adolescent. (And we don't mean board books or indestructibles--You know, the ones with the pages that you can chew.) No, we mean real, honest-to-goodness, grown-up books!

The book group meets on the second Sunday of every month at 2pm in the Book Fare Cafe for an hour of spirited discussion of books that celebrate the trials, tribulations, and rewards of motherhood, and what it means to be a mother. This group is by no means exclusive to moms with kids still at home, but much of the selection may be geared toward issues that those moms face. We will read fiction, non-fiction, and and parenting books.  

Authors do not usually attend.

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$14.99
ISBN-13: 9780061711534
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harper Paperbacks, 1/2012
Sunday, March 11, 2:00pm
 
Pink and pretty or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward, telling them that how a girl looks matters more than who she is. Somewhere between the exhilarating rise of Girl Power in the 1990s and today, the pursuit of physical perfection has been recast as a source—the source—of female empowerment.
 

$23.95
ISBN-13: 9780870745676
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Southern Methodist University Press, 3/2011
Sunday, April 15, 2:00pm
(please note: meeting is delayed a week since the second Sunday falls on Easter)
 
When Laura Estreich is born, her appearance presents a puzzle: does the shape of her eyes indicate Down syndrome, or the fact that she has a Japanese grandmother? In this powerful memoir, George Estreich, a poet and stay-at-home dad, tells his daughter's story, reflecting on her inheritance—from the literal legacy of her genes, to the family history that precedes her, to the Victorian physician John Langdon Down’s diagnostic error of “Mongolian idiocy.”
 

$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780385343497
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Bantam, 1/2010
Sunday, May 13, 2:00pm
 
It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath.