Patterson Pages @ West End
Meets 3rd Wednesdays from 6:30-7:45
December meeting is movie night - no book discussion.
New members always welcome
For more information, contact the branch at 804-646-1877
JANUARY 2019 SELECTION
by James Agee
An autobiographical novel that contains one of the most evocative depictions of loss and grief ever written. As Jay Follet hurries back to his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, he is killed in a car accident--a tragedy that destroys not only a life, but also the domestic happiness and contentment of a young family.
FEBRUARY 2019 SELECTION
Mozart's Starling
by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
On May 27th, 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met a flirtatious little starling in a Viennese shop who sang an improvised version of the theme from his Piano Concerto no. 17 in G major. Sensing a kindred spirit in the plucky young bird, Mozart bought him and took him home to be a family pet.
MARCH 2019 SELECTION
The House Gun
by Nadine Gordimer
When Harald and Claudia's son, Duncan, murders a man with whom he had unusual relations, his parents' love, loyalty, and self-worth as nurturers are tested.
APRIL 2019 SELECTION
A Modern Library edition of the renowned black author's classic first novel captures a vivid and provocative portrait of the African-American experience.
Also available as an audio CD, and other book editions.
MAY 2019 SELECTION
Unwise Passions : a True Story of a Remarkable Woman -- and the First Great Scandal of Eighteenth-century America
by Alan Pell Crawford
Revists the eighteenth-century "Jezebel of Virginia" case to recreate one of the most sensational trials in American history in which Nancy Randolph, a young woman from one of the wealthiest and most socially prominent families in Virginia, played a key role in the murder trial of her brother-in-law, who was accused of fathering and killing an illegitimate child.
JUNE 2019 SELECTION
The Leopard
by Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Chronicles the turbulent transformation of the Risorgimento, in the period of Italian Unification. The waning feudal authority of the elegant and stately Prince of Salina is pitted against the materialistic cunning of Don Calogero, in Tomasi's magnificently descriptive memorial to a dying age.
JULY 2019 SELECTION
Dimestore
by Lee Smith
In her first work of nonfiction, an author recounts her early days in the small coal town of Grundy, Virginia—and beyond.
AUGUST 2019 SELECTION
Tree of Smoke
by Denis Johnson
The lives of Skip Sands, a spy-in-training engaged in psychological operations against the Vietcong, and brothers Bill and James Houston, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war, intertwine in a compelling novel of America during the Vietnam War.
Also available in Large Print, audio CD.
SEPTEMBER 2019 SELECTION
Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
Living with his grandparents and toddler sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his tormented mother's addictions and his grandmother's terminal cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope.
Also available in Large Print
OCTOBER 2019 SELECTION
Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
by Stephen E. Ambrose
A chronicle of the two-and-a-half year journey of Lewis and Clark covers their incredible hardships, first encounters with Native Americans, the contributions of Sacajawea, and Lewis' post-journey depression.
NOVEMBER 2019 SELECTION
The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
Kate's desperate struggle to maintain her sanity forces her cousin Binx to relinquish his dreamworld.
Other editions also available.
DECEMBER 2019 - no book discussion
no book discussion - join us for a fun movie night instead!
West End Branch, Richmond Public Library
5420 Patterson Ave.
rvalibrary.org