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                                                        Third Thursdays: Book Group 12:30-1:30PM

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                                                        Our reading audience has suggested titles that relate to quilting, its history or the camaraderie of women.

                                                        We feature a fiction and non-fiction selection every month. Many of the titles relate to the Civil War in recognition
                                                        of the 150th Anniversary and give readers an opportunity to reflect on its relevance to the 21st century.

                                                        Find additional non-fiction titles under Read More About It, Create New Quilts and Inspire Young Quilters. 

                                                        If you are not in the Greater Lowell area, consider reading these books and sharing them with friends or your own book group.  Let us know your impressions of our selections. 

                                                        If you have a favorite book you would like to recommend to our readers, we'd love to hear about it.
                                                        Email your suggestions to Rhonda Galpern at outreach@nequiltmuseum.org

                                                        NOTE: Occasionally the date of our Book Group meeting changes to accommodate the museum's off-site participation in an area quilt show or other event. Please carefully check the dates below before coming out.


                                                        2012 Reading List (January-June)

                                                        __For 2012, we are featuring selections to help you Create New Quilts and Inspire Young Quilters.
                                                        Consider using these titles to design a unique quilt or to share your interest in quilting with the next generations.

                                                        To download the list, click here.

                                                        During our exhibit Campaigns and Commemoratives: Quilts for Presidents (January 19 – March 24)
                                                            January 19
                                                                    Threading the Needle, Marie Bostwick, www.mariebostwick.com
                                                                    Betsy Ross and the Making of America, Marla Miller
                                                            February 16 (February is Black History Month)
                                                                    Cion, Zakes Mda
                                                                    Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckley, Jennifer Fleischner
                                                            March 15 (March is Women's History Month)
                                                                    Murder in the White House, Margaret Truman
                                                                    Secret Lives of the First Ladies, Cormac H. O’Brien, www.cormacobrien.com
                                                                            Read More About It
                                                                    Secret Lives of the U. S, Presidents, Cormac H. O’Brien, www.cormacobrien.com
                                                                    Presidential Campaigns, Paul F. Boller Jr
                                                                    Presidential Wives, Paul F. Boller Jr
                                                                            Create New Quilts
                                                                    First Ladies of America Quilt, Carol Ann Waugh & Phyllis McAllaster Stewart, www.firstladiesquilt.com
                                                                    Presidential Redwork, Michael G. Buckingham, www.michael.g.buckingham.tripod.com
                                                                    Voices of the Past, Kaye England, www.kayeengland.com
                                                                    Voices of the Past, Volume II, Kaye England
                                                                    Women of Influence, Sarah Maxwell & Delores Smith, www.pickledishstore.com
                                                                           Inspire Young Quilters
                                                                    “A” is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women, Lynne Cheney
                                                                    An Unlikely Friendship: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley, Ann Rinaldi, www.annrinaldi.net

                                                        During our exhibit Fenway Park Centennial: Quilts by Rosemary Bawn (March 29 – July 8)
                                                            April 19
                                                                    American Patchwork: True Stories from Quilters, Sonja Hakala, www.sonjahakala.com
                                                                    Fenway 1912, Glen Stout
                                                            May 17
                                                                    The Lover’s Knot, Clare O’Donohue, www.clareodonohue.com
                                                                    Fenway Park: The Centennial, Saul Wisnia
                                                            June 21
                                                                    A Drunkard’s Path, Clare O’Donohue, www.clareodonohue.com
                                                                    Mostly True: A Memoir of Family, Food and Baseball, Molly O’Neill, www.onebigtable.com
                                                                            Read More About It
                                                                    A League of My Own, Patricia I. Bowman
                                                                    Baseball at War: the Story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, SB Jeffrey
                                                                    No Girls in the Clubhouse, Marilyn Cohen
                                                                            Create New Quilts
                                                                    Opening Day, Sonie Ruffin, www.pickledishstore.com
                                                                    Sew into Sports, Barbara Brackman, www.pickledishstore.com
                                                                            Inspire Young Quilters
                                                                    B is for Baseball, Chronicle Books Staff
                                                                    Fenway Park from A to Z, Red Sox Wives
                                                                    H is for Homerun, Brad Herzog
                                                                    Wally the Green Monster, Jerry Remy
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