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Mayor Pam in March

Discussion Questions for Rules by Cynthia Lord

March's Guest Author is Dennis Lehane

Mayor Iorio’s guest on the March episode of “Mayor’s Book Talk” is multi-award winning novelist, Dennis Lehane.  After much acclaim as a crime fiction writer, Lehane turned to history and politics in his 700-page epic, The Given Day.    The two discuss this tremendous historic novel, which is centered on the events before and during the Boston police strike of 1919. In May 2005, Lehane was presented with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Eckerd College, his alma mater, and was appointed to Eckerd's Board of Trustees later that year. Lehane was born in Boston, Massachusetts, which provides the setting for many of his books. 

March's Discussion Group Books

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Miranda's disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the moon closer to the earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun? As summer turns to Arctic winter, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove. Told in journal entries, this is the heart-pounding story of Miranda's struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all-hope-in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world.
Susan Beth Pfeffer is the author of many books for teens, including The Dead and The Gone, the companion novel to Life As We Knew It, and the bestselling novel
The Year Without Michael.  Susan lives in Middletown, New York.

Discussion Questions for Life As We Knew It

March's Recommended Reads

• Flannery, A Life of Flannery O'Connor by Brad Gooch
• Last Lion, The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy by The Team at The Boston Globe
• Listen to the Wind, The Story of Dr. Greg & Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth
• Paving Paradise, Florida's Vanishing Wetlands and the Failure of No Net loss by Craig Pittman and Matthew Waite
• Scat  by Carl Hiaasen
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• Vintage Tampa Signs and Scenes by John V. Cinchett