April 15, 2010: John Adams by David McCullough
(Senior Center Lounge, 1:00 p.m.) McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who thought, wrote, and spoke out for the “Great Cause” come what might, who traveled far and wide in all seasons and often at extreme risk; and who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war. Link to catalog.
(Senior Center Lounge, 1:00 p.m.) Mackenzie Allen Phillips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack’s world forever. 
(Senior Center Lounge, 1:00 p.m.) The author examines America’s loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11, and the global environmental crisis, and shows how the solutions to the two problems of destabilizing climate change and the rising competition for energy are linked. 
(Senior Center Lounge, 1:00 p.m.) This first book in the delightful series follows Mma Precious Ramotste as she sets up the only woman-run Private Detective Agency in Botswana and her attempts to get it off the ground. She gets help from Mma Grace Makutsi, her new secretary, and Mr. JLB Matekoni, the owner and super mechanic of the wonderful Speedy Motors. Mma Ramotste meets many new people who need her help and solves their problems in her own unique way. Deirdre Reilly will lead a discussion of this book. Copies of this book are available at the Library or at the Senior Center (ask at the front desk.) 
(Senior Center, Lounge, 1:00 p.m.) With his dog Charley, John Steinbeck set out in his truck to explore and experience America in the 1960s. As he talked with all kinds of people, he sadly noted the passing of region speech, fell in love with Montana, and was appalled by racism in New Orleans. (Description from amazon.com) 
(Senior Center, Lounge, 1:00 p.m.) In 1965, the happy Bedloe family is living an ideal, apple-pie existence in Baltimore. Then, in the blink of an eye, a single tragic event occurs that will transform their lives forever—particularly that of seventeen-year-old Ian Bedloe, the youngest son, who blames himself for the sudden “accidental” death of his older brother.
Embittered by a false accusation and disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a life alone with his loom and his gold. Fate steals his gold and replaces it with a golden-haired foundling child. (Senior Center, Lounge, 1:00 p.m.) 
Frank McCourt’s luminous memoir begins as he is born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank’s mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank’s father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy — exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling — does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. 
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