The AAUW Book Group usually meets second Wednesday of every month at Noon for Lunch and a Book (bring a bag lunch) at the Potsdam Public Library. AAUW members and others lead the discussion of each book. Guests are always welcome. Please call Pat Musante at the Potsdam Library at 265-7230 for more information.
Congratulations to Pat who is the AAUW Agent of Change for 2009.
In principle and practice, AAUW values and seeks a diverse membership. There shall be no barriers to full participation in this organization on the basis of gender, race, creed, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or class.
The list of ˇAdelante! Books of the Month 2009-2010 is now available!
See the new AAUW International Affairs Committee's Reading List!
Download the AAUW-St. Lawrence County's 2010 Books on Women's History for Young Readers here for your gift giving and reading needs in the next year!
Read about our AAUW-sponsored 2009 50 Books for 50 Years: Sharing Women's History With a New Generation of Readers Download the 50 Books list here!
AAUW in the News: AAUW Picks 50 Books For Young Readers (Dec. 3, 2009)
AAUW has a new partnership with Barnes & Noble's online sales site, BN.com. Customized for AAUW members, the Barnes & Noble website is our own AAUW bookstore. AAUW members automatically receive a 5 percent discount on purchases (10 percent periodically) - and that’s on top of other available discounts that apply to the purchase.
Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the most talked about--and praised--smash hit of 2007 follows the adventures of a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd plagued by a family curse.
Set in rural Wisconsin in 1909, Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting.
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d'Hiv', to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah's past, she begins to question her own place in France, and to re-evaluate her marriage and her life. "Tatiana de Rosnay" offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode.
"New York Times" bestselling author Strout binds together 13 rich, luminous narratives through the presence of one larger-than-life, unforgettable character: Olive Kitteridge, who offers profound insights into the human condition.
From #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Nelson DeMille comes a suspenseful new novel featuring Detective John Corey and his wife, FBI Agent Kate Mayfield, and an all-too-plausible conspiracy to detonate a nuclear bomb in two major cities. Note: some of the action in this thriller takes place in Potsdam!