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Brookside Calendar
2024/2025
Book Titles
Meeting
Place
Discussion
Facilitator
July /Aug

No meetings!

Sept 6

 “The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves”
by Alexandra Hudson
(Karolyn)

“I Saw Ramallah”
by Mourid Barghouti
(Ghada)

“Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis 1956-1978”
by Kai Bird
(Jeannie)


 

Jeannie
Ghada
Oct 11

“Just Kids”
by Patti Smith
(Joselle)


Rossotti's Alpine Inn
Portola Valley
Gretchen
Nov 8

“And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle” by Jon Meacham
(Joselle)



Gretchen
Joselle
Dec 13

“The Paris Novel”
by Ruth Reichl
(Jeannie/Nancy)

“The French Ingredient: Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time: A Memoir”
by Jane Bertch
(Nancy)


Joselle
Nancy?
Jan 10
2025


“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store”
by James McBride
(Nancy)

 


Chris
Joselle?


Feb 7

“You Have to be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America”
by Paul Kix
(Gretchen, Cathy)

“Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury”
By Drew Gilpin Faust
(Jeannie)


Google Cafe
Mountain View
Jeannie?
March 14

“Too Soon” A Novel”
by Betty Shamieh
(Ghada)


Ghada
questions for
Betty

April 4

 

“The Women: A Novel”
by Kristin Hannah
(Nancy)


Nancy
Chris
May 2

Pick titles for 2024/2025

Virginia
Jane

June 27

 “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story”
by Kara Swisher|
(Chris)

“System Error, Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot”
by Rob Reich, Mehrar Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein
( Stanford Freshman required read)



Anne Chris?
 

 

   
At Breakfast
mockingbird
 

 


 

 
  updated 11/11//2024