BLT - Booked for Lunch Club

BLT is a group that reads fiction and nonfiction books and likes to discuss new thoughts and ideas. Occasionally they will take field trips or have special activities related to the book discussion.

Most meetings will be at the Monrovia Community Center and attendees can bring a brown bag lunch to eat while we have our book discussion.

We meet the third Tuesday of each month at 11 a.m. at Monrovia Community Center, next door to the library.

Meeting location: 
Monrovia Public Library
Contact: 
monrovia
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BLT Book Club - A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick (May 21 2013 11:00am)
BLT Book Club - A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

Rural Wisconsin, 1909. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting. She is both complex and devious, haunted by a terrible past and motivated by greed.

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BLT Book Club - The Tall Woman by Wilma Dykeman (Jun 18 2013 11:00am)
BLT Book Club - The Tall Woman by Wilma Dykeman

Lydia Moore grew up in the Appalachian region before the Civil War and married Mark McQueen shortly after it began. Her husband went off to fight for the Union while her father and brother fought for the Confederates. While the men were gone, outliers raided Lydia's mother's home, assaulting her and stealing the livestock. A pregnant Lydia returned to her old home place to tend to her mother and brothers and sisters. When her labor began, the doctor was too inebriated to come, so Lydia's Aunt Tildy delivered the baby, who was turned the wrong way, causing brain damage.

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BLT Book Club - The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (Jul 16 2013 11:00am)
BLT Book Club - The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

A tiny girl is abandoned on a ship headed for Australia in 1913. She arrives completely alone with nothing but a small suitcase containing a few clothes and a single book—a beautiful volume of fairy tales. She is taken in by the dockmaster and his wife and raised as their own. On her twenty-first birthday, they tell her the truth, and with her sense of self shattered and very little to go on, "Nell" sets out to trace her real identity. Her quest leads her to Blackhurst Manor on the Cornish coast and the secrets of the doomed Mountrachet family.

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BLT Book Club - The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom (Aug 20 2013 11:00am)
BLT Book Club - The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family.

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BLT Book Club - The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott (Sep 17 2013 11:00am)
BLT Book Club - The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott

Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she’s had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be her personal maid on the Titanic. Once on board, Tess catches the eye of two men—a kind sailor and an enigmatic Chicago businessman—who offer differing views of what lies ahead for her in America. But on the fourth night, disaster strikes, and amidst the chaos, Tess is one of the last people allowed on a lifeboat.

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