Moke Hill Reads Book Club

Dec 1, 2016 by contributor

Tuesday, December 6, 7 PM: Moke Hill Library/Archives

The Cuckoo’s Calling  by Robert Galbraith

A brilliant mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel’s suicide.  First in a new series, this case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers.  A Vet wounded in Afghanistan, Strike takes on the case for the money, then becomes convinced of her murder.

January 3^rd, 2017. The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey, by Rinker Buck. An epic account of traveling the 2,000-mile length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way—in a covered wagon with a team of mules.  Simultaneously a majestic journey across the West, a significant work of history, and a laugh-out-loud masterpiece. (Travel Adventure)

February 7, 2017.  Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.  Earth is under attack and survival of humanity depends on a military genius – a child who has been trained since birth.  While Andrew “Ender” Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games, he is in fact waging war on alien attackers.  Winner of both Hugo and Nebula awards, this work among the most influential science fiction novels of the 1980s.