| 2006 Winning Title: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee |
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- Pass the Book
- Get Caught Reading
- Service project: collecting goods for Bethesda House
- “Bela Lugosi, Rosa Parks, and Harper Lee” led by Claudia Durst Johnson, Ph.D
- Film discussion led by Dan DiNicola
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| 2007 Winning Title: My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult |
- “Brave New World: the Bioethical Issues Raised in
- My Sister’s Keeper” led by Robert Baker with a book review by Sue Lehrman
- "An Afternoon with Jodi Picoult”
- Service project: Have a Heart Survival Kits for Albany Medical Center Pediatric Oncology Unit
- Community Book Discussion
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| 2008 Winning Title: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini |
- Kabul Transit discussion with David B. Edwards
- Kabul in Winter program with author, Ann Jones
- Service project: working with the Peter M. Goodrich Memorial Foundation
- Book and film discussion with Jack Rightmyer and Casey Seiler
- Afghan Culture Fest with food; music by Hossin Noorzai; dancing by Sarah Khaliqi and friends; and cultural demos including afghan kite fighting by Alireza Jawanshir
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