IB Book Club

July Book Club will meet Monday July 21 at 6:30PM

2008-05-08T12:43:00.000-07:00

In his morbidly fascinating nonfiction eco-thriller, “The World Without Us,” Weisman imagines what would happen if the earth’s most invasive species — ourselves — were suddenly and completely wiped out. Writers from Carson to Al Gore have invoked the threat of environmental collapse in an effort to persuade us to change our careless ways. With similar intentions but a more devilish sense of entertainment values, Weisman turns the destruction of our civilization and the subsequent rewilding of the planet into a Hollywood-worthy, slow-motion disaster spectacular and feel-good movie rolled into one.

-The new York Times

June Book Club Meeting Monday June 16 at 6:30 PM

2008-05-08T12:07:00.000-07:00

Check out www.animalvegetablemiracle.com for more info(recipies and what happened after the book) on this great book.

Check at the IB LIbrary circulation desk about ordering a copy of this great book today. Ask for Jason!!

Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.
"As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the adventure of realigning our lives with our food chain.
"Naturally, our first stop was to buy junk food and fossil fuel. . . ."
Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet.
"This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew . . . and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air."

"There are many ways for a writer to tell you to eat your vegetables: earnestly, humorously, scientifically, self-righteously, instructively or so voluptuously that the page practically reeks of fertilizer. Barbara Kingsolver's way is both folksy and smart. While she is cogent and illuminating about serious matters of nutrition, Kingsolver also finds ways to convey what it's like to be showered with friends' plants as birthday gifts, regard a full supply of potatoes as "homeland security," and fend off the amorous attention of a lovesick turkey hen"

-International Herald Tribune

The May Imperial Beach Book Club Meeting will be held on Monday May 19th 6:30PM at the Imperial Beach Library

2008-03-06T15:43:00.000-08:00

“[It’s] the kind of book you all love because it means that not only is word of mouth happening, but you know that something mysterious about this book is really seeping into people’s hearts and minds,” said Susan Petersen Kennedy, president of Penguin Group USA. . .With the ethical dilemma and family drama at its heart, “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter” is appealing to readers who want a literary page turner and something to discuss in their reading groups. Martha MacDonald, 63, a retired physical therapist in Winchester, Mass., said she read the novel for her condominium association’s book group.“Usually it takes me a week or two to read a book,” she said. “I read this one in two days. I couldn’t put it down. It raised a lot of issues about how you would have reacted in the same situation. I think it’s an incredible discussion book.”—The New York Times

“[An] extraordinary debut.”—The Chicago Tribune

Edwards takes on many themes in this novel, including the burden of secrets, the loneliness of a disintegrating marriage, the heartache and triumph of raising children—and, most pointedly, the need for developmentally disabled children to feel accepted by society. The Memory Keeper's Daughter reveals the strength of family bonds under unique and difficult circumstances.—BookPage

2008-03-06T15:17:00.000-08:00

April Book Club

New York Times Besteller
Three Cups of Tea
One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace...One School At A Time
By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver RelinVIKING Hardcover 2006 / PENGUIN Paperback 2007

“Three Cups of Tea is one of the most remarkable adventure stories of our time. Greg Mortenson’s dangerous and difficult quest to build schools in the wildest parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan is not only a thrilling read, it’s proof that one ordinary person, with the right combination of character and determination, really can change the world.” -Tom Brokaw

"A stunningly simple story of how to make peace" -Bloomsbury Review

"Fascinating...one only hopes U.S. policymakers read Mortenson's book" -Philadelphia Inquirer

"Astonishing tale of compassion - and of promise kept" -Time Magazine Asia Book of the Year

"Laced with drama, danger, romance, and good deeds" -Christian Science Monitor

The IB Book club will be meeting Monday April 21st at 6:30 PM to discuss this great book.

March Book Club

2008-02-08T11:27:00.000-08:00

Tsukiyama is a wise a spellbinding storyteller- Booklist Review

"An engrossing richness of detail."
—The New York Times Book Review

"Tsukiyama brings a fluid, smooth elegance to the complicated story she tells."
—San Francisco Chronicle

"Tsukiyama's writing style has a controlled flu- idity, that hints at explosive passions lurking beneath the surface.... A sensory experience."
—Los Angeles Japanese Daily

The IB Book club meets this month on March 17th at 6:30 PM

If you would like to join the IB Book Club stop in anytime at the IB Library ask for Jason. You can also call the Library at 619-424-6981.

IB Book Club Mission Statement:

The IB Book club has been established in an effort to provide a comfortable setting where readers in our community can discuss great books we might otherwise not have the oppurtunity to read.

February Book Club

2008-01-11T11:36:00.000-08:00

The Road By Cormac McCarthy

The IB Book Club meets on Monday February 11th at 6:30 PM at the IB library at 810 Imperial Beach Boulevard in Imperial beach.

"The Sci-FI divination is new for McCarthy, the freshness he brings to the end of the world narrative is quite stunning: It may be the saddest, most haunting book he's ever written, or that you'll ever read."

-Village voice Mark Holcomb

September Book Club

2007-08-21T16:41:00.000-07:00

The IB Book club will meet next on September 17 at 6:30 PM.

Co-Author Jim Miller will take part in the book discussion. Under the Perfect sun is a book about San Diego history and politics. This informative and controversial read will please all fans of American and local history.