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Kepler's invites you to register your Book Club with our store. As a registered Book Club you will receive these benefits:
- 15% discount on orders of five or more books (same title)
- Monthly email on Book Club picks, Book Club news and Recent Reviews
- We can arrange Author call-ins for your Book Club
- Your Book Club will be invited to our Seasonal Book Club Presentations, hosted by our Book Buyers and major book publishers
First Friday Book Club
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Friday, April 2, 7:30 p.m.
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Volume containing two interrelated stories by J.D. Salinger, published in book form in 1961. The stories, originally published in The New Yorker magazine, concern Franny and Zooey Glass, two members of the family that was the subject of most of Salinger's short fiction. Franny is an intellectually precocious late adolescent who tries to attain spiritual purification by obsessively reiterating the "Jesus prayer" as an antidote to the perceived superficiality and corruptness of life. She subsequently suffers a nervous breakdown. In the second story, her next older brother, Zooey, attempts to heal Franny by pointing out that her constant repetition of the "Jesus prayer" is as self-involved and egotistical as the egotism against which she rails.
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Sunday Poetry Club
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Sunday, March 28, 2:00 p.m.
Time and Materials by Robert Hass
The poems in this collection are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise.
His familiar landscapes are here in addition to some of his oft-explored themes: art; the natural world; the nature of desire; the violence of history; the power and limits of language; and, domestic life and the conversation between men and women. New themes emerge as well, perhaps: the essence of memory and of time.
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Daytime Fiction - & More - Book Club
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Sunday, March 21, 2:00 p.m.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world.
By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper then embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His search leads to his own death -- and to the author's timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition.
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Fiction Book Club
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Monday, March 22, 7:00 p.m.
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life -- having nothing but his own wits to help him along.
Balram's eyes penetrate India as few outsiders can: the cockroaches and the call centers; the prostitutes and the worshippers; the ancient and Internet cultures; the water buffalo and, trapped in so many kinds of cages that escape is (almost) impossible, the white tiger.
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Monday, April 19, 7:00 p.m.
Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
Lark and Termite is a rich, wonderfully alive novel about seventeen-year-old Lark and her brother, Termite, living in West Virginia in the 1950s. Their mother, Lola, is absent, while their aunt, Nonie, raises them as her own, and Termite’s father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, is caught up in the early days of the Korean War. Award-winning author Jayne Anne Phillips intertwines family secrets, dreams, and ghosts in a story about the love that unites us all.
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Spanish Book Club
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Monday, April 12, 7:00 p.m.
Alta infidelidad by Rosa Beltrán
Love, fidelity and jealousy, tied to the old problem of solitude and the miscommunication of human beings, are the subjects of this novel, where Julian, a divorced philosophy professor, has three different relationships with three different prototypes of the contemporary woman, and ends up being victim of himself.
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Monday, May 10, 7:00 p.m.
Termina el desfile, seguido de Adiós a Mamá by Reinaldo Arenas
Termina el desfile seguido de Adiós a mamá es el volumen compuesto de dos libros de relatos en los que, Reinaldo Arenas traza un retrato vivo y barroco de la Cuba que conoció: la colorista marea humana que trajo la Revolución «Comienza el desfile»; los ecos de tragedia griega presentes en «La Vieja Rosa», la apocalíptica ensoñación de un solitario observador de estrellas «El reino de Alipio»; el enfrentamiento entre la libertad y el oscurantismo «Bestial entre las flores»; la lucha de un escritor por mantener la dignidad en medio del turbio exilio en Miami «La torre de cristal»; la feliz humorada de «El cometa Halley», o el emocionante monólogo de «Final de un cuento». En estos relatos, fechados entre 1964 y 1982, la telúrica imaginación del escritor cubano pone ante el lector un mundo de opresión, de sensualidad desbocada y recelos, de soledad y traiciones, un mundo donde sólo el arte y la literatura parecen aportar alguna luz.
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Speculative Fiction Book Club
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Sunday, March 14, 4:00 p.m.
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.
But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.
Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue’s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history.
His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.
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Sunday, April 11, 4:00 p.m.
The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard
Fourteen of Lucius Shepard’s most memorable stories are combined with a previously unanthologized novella, Radiant Green Star, to form a stunning sci-fi collection. In the Nebula Award–winning title story, a poor Honduran hunter is coerced into tracking the forbidden black jaguar of Barrio Carolina.
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Sunday, May 16, 4:00 p.m.
This Alien Shore by C.S. Friedman
This "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year explores the second age of space colonization, when one of Earth's first colonies has restored humanity at a high price--a monopoly over all human commerce. When a satellite is attacked by corporate raiders, a woman flees to a ship bound for the Up-and-Out and is about to discover a secret the universe may not be ready to face.
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Sunday, June 13, 4:00 p.m.
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rules their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon. Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman. Binder of Demons. Lord of Light.
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Sunday, July 11, 4:00 p.m.
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
Seventeen-year-old Jenna Fox has just awoken from a year-long coma—so she’s been told—and she is still recovering from the terrible accident that caused it. But what happened before that? She’s been given home movies chronicling her entire life, which spark memories to surface. But are the memories really hers? And why won’t anyone in her family talk about the accident? Jenna is becoming more curious. But she is also afraid of what she might find out if she ever gets up the courage to ask her questions. What happened to Jenna Fox? And who is she really?
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Young Adult Book Club
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Tuesday, March 30, 5:30 p.m.
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Twelve-year-old Miranda thinks she knows what common sense is. After all, she's lived in New York City all her life and has never found herself in any sort of sticky situation!
Then Miranda begins to receive strange notes from someone who seems to be able to foretell the future. Logical Miranda knows this can't be true. But not long after the notes begin to arrive, things in the notes begin to happen. Time is running out. The notes keep coming, and getting increasingly urgent. Miranda believes something terrible will happen if she doesn't act fast. Utterly imaginative and simultaneously true to life, this book will have you piecing together the puzzle right alongside Miranda.
Please bring $2.00 for pizza and drinks. Do let us know if you plan to come, or if you have a question. Contact Megan at megan@keplers.com
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