Freedom to Read 'em Book Club -- Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

March's book selection is Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. Given the Iowa High School Book Award in 2010, it is now banned from that state's public schools.

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five....In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world....
Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens - until the day its complancency is shattered by an act of violence. 
Nineteen Minutes is New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult's most raw, honest, and important novel yet. Told with the straightforward style for which she has become known, it asks simple questions that have no easy answers: Can your own child become a mystery to you? What does it mean to be different in our society? Is it ever okay for a victim to strike back? And who -- if anyone -- has the right to judge someone else?

All are welcome to join the discussion at 2:00 p.m. in the Community Room of the Downtown Library [2nd floor].  Check the library's catalog early to grab your copy of this remarkable book.