River Jordan Coffee House

For those who like literary adventure and respectful, friendly discussion with an occasional spiritual spin, come take part in our meetings at 7:00 pm in Multipurpose Room 1, which gets transformed into an intimate, candlelit cafe featuring complimentary coffee and dessert.

Books are recommended and voted on by members of the group, and usually include both fiction and nonfiction.  Our group is registered with the Howard County Library, so copies of selections will be set aside one month before the discussion.

2005:  Life of Pi, The Known World, The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness,  Gilead.

2006: The Devil's Advocate,  Never Let Me Go,  Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith,  Death Comes for the Archbishop,  The Chosen,  Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell,  East of Eden, The Measure of God: Our Century-Long Struggle to Reconcile Science and Religion.

2007: The Kite Runner, 1776, The Thirteenth Tale, Touching the Void, The Glass Castle, Jesus: A Meditation on His Stories and His Relationships With Women, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Left to Tell, The World Without Us.

2008:  A Thousand Splendid Suns, Brideshead Revisited, Power to the People, Morte d'Urban, The Alchemist, The Sparrow, The Book Thief, The Color of Water

UPCOMING BOOKS 2009:

January 18:  "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson

March 29:  "The Shack" by William P. Young