Saturday Book
Club
The Tipping
Point by
Malcolm
Gladwell
1p Conf. Room

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.

Wednesday, December 5th at 6:30pm author Charlies Schudson will talk about his book, Independence Corrupted: How America's Judges Make Their Decisions.

Saturday, December 1 at 3pm-Author Sam Kleiner talks about his book, The Flying Tigers:   The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged  a Secret War Against Japan

"An exciting story of bravery in the skies-- and a picture of America at its best at a time of peril. A five-star read." -The Washington Times

"A brisk and personable narrative." -The Wall Street 

Mystery Book
Club
The Mistletoe
Murders and
other stories by
P.D. James
2p Winn Room

Throughout her illustrious career as the Queen of Crime, P. D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a special short story for Christmas. Now, for the first time, four of the best are collected here. In “The Twelve Clues of Christmas,” James’s iconic Scotland Yard detective, Adam Dalgliesh, is drawn into a case that is pure Agatha Christie. In “A Very Commonplace Murder,” a respectable clerk’s secret taste for pornography is only the first reason he finds for not coming forward as a witness to a terrible crime. “The Boxdale Inheritance” finds Dalgliesh reinvestigating a notorious murder at the insistence of his godfather—only to uncover the darkest of family secrets. And in the title story, a bestselling crime novelist describes the crime in which she herself was involved some fifty years ago.