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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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$15.95
ISBN-13: 9780679774020
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Vintage, 9/1998
Sunday, May 19, 2:00pm
Please note: This meeting has been delayed a week, since the second Sunday falls on Mother's Day.
This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times.

The Dovekeepers (Paperback)

$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781451617481
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Scribner, 4/2012
Sunday, June 9, 2:00pm
Nearly two thousand years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Based on this tragic and iconic event, Hoffman’s novel is a spellbinding tale of four extraordinarily bold, resourceful, and sensuous women.

$16.00
ISBN-13: 9781416586296
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Scribner, 9/2010
Sunday, July 14, 2:00pm
Lily, Wall's grandmother, survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds—against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn’t fit the mold.

Beautiful Ruins (Paperback)

$15.99
ISBN-13: 9780061928178
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Harper Perennial, 4/2013
Sunday, August 11, 2:00pm
The story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962...and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later.