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We have a host of book clubs started, so take your pick below for the time or group that best suits you, or set up your own club and propose your own time by contacting us. Remember that a 15% discount on club picks will be offered to those who join a regular book group at the store!
Starting Your Own Book Club
We've had a number of people express interest in starting their own book club. While Cornerstone Books does not initiate new clubs, we'd be happy to host your group once you organize. To help, we've included a Book Club Sign-Up Sheet that you can post on the store corkboard, or anywhere else you'd like to solicit members. Add your idea, your moderator, and then simply post the form on the board. Once you have enough people, contact the store to reserve your time and place in the cafe. Remember that all book clubs meeting in the store receive a 15% discount on their club picks.
The Science Fiction Book Club
1st Thursday at 7pm
(Next Meeting: Thursday, July 2 at 7pm)
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This long-running club in the North Shore has a special focus on science fiction.
This month's pick is Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout: "The larger-than-life world of Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher and unofficial town crier in a small coastal town in Maine, is revealed in a series of luminous stories that explore her diverse roles in many lives, including a lounge singer haunted by a past love, a young man grieving over his lost mother, her stoic husband, and her own resentful son."
The Daytime Book Club
2nd Tuesday at 11am
(Next Meeting: July 14 at 11am)
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This new club is open to anyone who would like to meet during weekdays rather than in the evening. It's open to one and all and any book is fair game! Come join us for a leisurely morning discussion.
This month's pick is Hawthorne: A Life by Brenda Wineapple: "Brenda Wineapple navigates the high tides and chill undercurrents of Hawthorne's fascinating life and work with clarity, nuance, and insight. The novels and tales, the incidental writings, travel notes and children's books, letters and diaries reverberate in this biography, which both charts and protects the dark unknowable core that is quintessentially Hawthorne. In him, the quest of his generation for an authentically American voice bears disquieting fruit."
Cornerstone Book Club
2nd Wednesday at 7pm
(Next Meeting: Wednesday, July 8 at 7pm)
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The first book club founded at Cornerstone Books, we read everything from fiction to biography to current events to mysteries.
This month's book club pick is The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman: "Documents the heroic true story of Warsaw Zoo keepers and resistance activists Jan and Antonina Zabinski who, in the aftermath of Germany's invasion of Poland, saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish citizens by smuggling them into empty cages and their home villa."
Movie Book Club
3rd Friday at 7pm
(Next Meeting: Friday, July 17 at 7pm)
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Here's how it will work: earlier in the month, we'll pick out a book that has been adapted for a movie and read it. Then, later that month, we'll get together in the cafe to discuss the book, then watch the movie to see how the two compare.
This month, we'll be watching and reading The Shipping News by Annie Proulx: "Surprising transformations take place when a newspaperman's elderly aunt and two daughters decide to move back to their family home on the coast of Newfoundland."
The North Shore Book Club
3rd Saturday at 3pm
(Next Meeting: Saturday, July 18 at 3pm)
This long running book club meets on the 3rd Saturday of every month.
This month's pick is Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts: "An inspirational but personal look into the trials and tribulations of historical women who helped shape our nation into what it has become exhibits the many facets of their lives and how they supported some of the founders of our country, profiling such key figures as Abigail Adams, Eliza Pinkney, Dolley Payne Madison, Deborah Read Franklin, and Catherine Littlefield Greene."
History Book Club
4th Wednesday at 7pm
(Next Meeting: Wednesday, July 22 at 7pm)
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This club meets on the 4th Wednesday of every month at 7pm.
This month's pick is Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement And the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America by James R. Green: "A study of America's early labor movement and the 1886 Haymarket bombing at a Chicaco labor rally that killed several police officers discusses the events of the infamous attack, its sensational aftermath, and its devastating repercussions in terms of the growing union movement."
Wine, Travel and Food Book Club
Last Friday at 7pm
(Next Meeting: Friday, July 31 at 7pm)
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For those who love to talk and taste food and wine from around the globe, this is the club for you! We'll be sitting down together once a month to discuss books featuring the romantic places that inspire great food and wine. We're looking for some guest speakers at this club as well, so keep an eye out.
This month's pick is A Good Year by Peter Mayle: "Having lost his biggest client to an unscrupulous boss, Max Skinner journeys to Provence to inspect a vineyard he has inherited and finds additional challenges in a California woman's claim on the estate."
