We have information for the April and May bookclubs!
April is an author spotlight hosted by Rachel Tafoya. Choose any book that you would like written by author, Clive Cussler. Along with being an author, Clive Cussler is a Marine Archeologist and founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency. He has written a variety of fiction, non-fiction, and even children's books so there are a lot of options! For a full list of Clive Cussler's books, please visit http://www.cusslermen.com/.
In May we are reading There Is No Me Without You written by Melissa Fay Greene, hosted by Tiffany Keck...
Not unlike the AIDS pandemic itself, the odyssey of Haregewoin Teferra, who took in AIDS orphans, began in small stages and grew to irrevocably transform her life from that of "a nice neighborhood lady" to a figure of fame, infamy and ultimate restoration. In telling her story, journalist Greene who had adopted two Ethiopian children before meeting Teferra, juggles political history, medical reportage and personal memoir. While succinctly interspersing a history of Ethiopia, lucidly tracing the history of AIDS from its early manifestation as "slim disease" in the late 1970s to its appearance as a bizarrely aggressive [form] of Kaposi's sarcoma in the early 1980s, and following the complex path of medication (a super highway in the West, a trail in Africa), Greene rescues Teferra from undeserved oblivion as well as rescuing her from undeserved obloquy (false accusations of child selling)... Ethiopia is home to "the second-highest concentration of AIDS orphans in the world"; even as some of the orphans find happy endings in American homes, Greene keeps the urgency of the greater crisis before us in this moving, impassioned narrative. - Publishers Weekly
