Wednesday, March 19th at 10 am:

Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
Published 2007 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Paperback, English. ISBN: 9781565125605

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Jacket Notes:
Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth.... More...

Wednesday, April 16th at 10 am:

Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
Published 1997 by Anchor Books

Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780385486804

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Jacket Notes:
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself.... More...

Wednesday, May 21st at 10 am:

Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
Published 1993 by Everyman's Library

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780679410430

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Jacket Notes:
With an Introduction by Martin Amis

When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness.... More...