The Maple Leaf Lutheran Church Book Club meets one evening per month to engage in discussion and fellowship. Each meeting is hosted in the home of members. All are welcome. For more information or the location of our monthly book club, contact the church office (206) 524 - 2448. Please consider joining this exciting group as a way to get to know the Maple Leaf Lutheran Church community!  If you have book suggestions we'd love to hear them.

 We will be taking a short summer break and will not be meeting in July or August.  We will start back up in September with these books and dates:

Wednesday, September 15, 7:00 pm: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford.  Meeting at the home of Ellen J.

Wednesday, October 20, 7:00 pm: The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa.  Meeting at the home of Kathy C.

Wednesday, November 17, 7:00 pm:  Nomad by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.  Meeting at the home of Carol W.

History: Our first book club gathering was on October 24, 2007 where we discussed Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortens0n.  At our second gathering we discussed "The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding" by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner.

We have also discussed these books:

"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini ,

"90 minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life" by Don Piper and Cecil Murphey.

"Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia" by Elizabeth Gilbert.

"The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail " by Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan

"Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario.

People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks.

"Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

"The Whistling Season" by Ivan Doig

"The Shack" by William P. Young

"Year of Wonders" by Geraldine Brooks.

"The Madhouse Nudes" by Robert Schultz

Kabbalah: A Love Story by Lawrence Kushner.

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet

The Bible Salesman by Cylde Edgeton

The Space Between Us: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan

Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith by Diana Butler Bass

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion by Sara Miles

The Geurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Sacred Hearts: A Novel by Sarah Dunant

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. 

 Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire by Ruth Downie        

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Three Junes by Julia Glass

Every once in awhile we even "change things up" a bit and we get together to watch and discuss the movies like "Defiance" and "The Visitor."