2020 Piquant Page-Turner Picks
January 13th- Perfectly Human: Nine Months with Cerian, Sarah C. Williams
February 10th-Fire Road, Kim Phuc Phan Thi
March 9th- Hannah Coulter, Wendell Berry
April 13th- The Hawk and the Dove, Penelope Wilcock
May 11th- My Dearest Dietrich, Amanda Barratt (Author interview?)
June 8th- The Faith Of Queen Elizabeth, Dudley Delffs
July 13th- Freckles, Gene Stratton-Porter
August 10th- Persuasion, Jane Austen (Penguin Classics)
September 9th- Back to School! No Book Club.
October 12th- The Autobiography of George Muller, George Muller (Mass Market Paperback)
November 9th- TBD (Possibly: The Pilgrim Chronicles, Rod Gragg)
December 14th- “The Tenth Of December” a short story by George Saunders
2019 Piquant Page-Turner Picks
January 14th- Happy New Year!
February 11th- A Rumored Fortune, Joanna Davidson Politano
March 11th- Hadrian’s Wall, Adrian Goldsworthy
April 8th-The Invention Of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd
May 13th- When I Lay My Isaac Down, Carol Kent
June 10th- The Butterfly and the Violin, Kristy Cambron
July 8th- Written Out of History: The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government, Mike Lee
August 12th-Virgil Wander, Leif Enger
September 9th- Back to School!
October 14th- The House On Foster Hill, Jaime Jo Wright
November 11th- The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg
December 9th-The Simple Faith of Mr. Rogers, Amy Hollingsworth
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln
2018 Piquant Page-Turner Picks
January 8th- Happy New Year!
February 12th- Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance
March 12th- Awkward: The Science of Why We’re Socially Awkward and Why That’s Awesome, Ty Tashiro
April 16th- The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis
May 14th- Daring to Hope, Katie Davis Majors
June 11th- Little Women (Unabridged), Louisa May Alcott
July 9th- News of the World, Paulette Jiles
August 13th- Born A Crime, Trevor Noah
September- Back to School! (Time to start QUO VADIS.)
October 8th- Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz
November 12th- TBD: (Strong Poison, The Broken Way, All the Light We Cannot See)
December 10th- Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything, Anne Bogel
The Piquant Page-Turners meet at 6:30 the second Monday of the month.
Soli Deo Gloria!
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
–Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid
“There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry –
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll –
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears a Human soul.”
-Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems
2017 Piquant Page-Turner Picks
January – HAPPY NEW YEAR!
February 13th- An Elegant Solution, Paul Robertson
March 13th- Called for Life, Kent and Amber Brantly
April 10th- Call the Midwife, Jennifer Worth
May 8th- The Moves Make The Man, Bruce Brooks
June 12th-Sherlock Holmes and the Needle’s Eye, Len Bailey
July 10th- Vinegar Girl, Anne Tyler
August 14th-The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
September- Back to School! (A great time to start The Three Musketeers)
October 9th-The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas (Lowell Bair translation)
November 13th-The Awakening of HK Derryberry: My Unlikely Friendship with the Boy Who Remembers Everything, Jim Bradford.
December 11th- Snow Angels, Cathe Swanson
Soli Deo Gloria!
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid
2016 Piquant Page-Turner Picks
January 11- HAPPY NEW YEAR!
February 8th- Caleb’s Crossing: A Novel, Geraldine Brooks
March 14th- Madman, Tracy Groot
April 11th- The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Condo
May 11th- Our Town, a play in three acts by Thornton Wilder
June 13th- The Ground Beneath Us, Rachel Allord (Author interview)
July 11th- Madison’s Gift: 5 Partnerships That Built America, David O. Steward
August 8th- The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
September 12th- HAPPY BACK TO SCHOOL!
October 10th- Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
November 14th-Seven Women and the Secret of their Greatness, Eric Metaxas
December 12th- Endless Christmas, Cynthia Ruchti
We meet at 6:30 on the second Monday of the month. Invite a friend!
Soli Deo Gloria!
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote