February 21 - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma  Ramotswe—with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi—navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea.

This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith’s widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to “help people with problems in their lives.” Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witchdoctors.

The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency received two Booker Judges’ Special Recommendations and was voted one of the International Books of the Year and the Millennium by the Times Literary Supplement.

January 16 - The Women by T. C. Boyle

The Women by T. C. Boyle 

Welcome to the troubled, tempestuous world of Frank Lloyd Wright. Scandalous affairs rage behind closed doors, broken hearts are tossed aside, fires rip through the wings of the house and paparazzi lie in wait outside the front door for the latest tragedy in this never-ending saga. This is the home of the great architect of the twentieth century, a man of extremes in both his work and his private life: at once a force of nature and an avalanche of need and emotion that sweeps aside everything in its path. Sharp, savage and subtle in equal measure, "The Women" plumbs the chaos, horrors and uncontainable passions of a formidable American icon.

Book Talk - December 19

SVLB Book Talk
December 19, 2019

Lucinda                        My Sister the Serial Killer
                                    Oyinkan Braithwaite

                                    Quichotte
                                    Salman Rushdie

Penny                          The Alice Network
                                    Kate Quinn

Stacy                            The Guardians
                                    John Grisham

Jan                               The Parade
                                    Dave Eggers

Tracey                         Tahoe Deathfall
                                    Todd Borg

Debi                             News of the World
                                    Paulette Jiles

Anne                            The Merci Train?
                                    Jan ???

Jim                               Sapiens
                                    Yuval Noah Harari

Deb                              To Say Nothing of the Dog
                                    Connie Willis

                                    Three Men in a Boat
                                    Jerome K. Jerome

Meredith                     Flavia Series
                                    Alan Bradley

Kenn                            Story of the Road
                                    Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Kay T                           The Overstory
                                    Richard Powers

Sharon                         A Spark of Light
                                    Jodi Picoult

Brenda                        Once Upon a River
                                    Diane Setterfield

Pam                             The Library Book
                                    Susan Orlean

Laurie                          The Day the World Came to Town
                                    Jim Defede

Bari                             Dissolving Illusions
                                    Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk

                                    End of Alzheimers
                                    Dale E. Bredesen