Taken from the Fall, 2006 Course Schedule. Over the course of seven months, every Tuesday OLLI members will have a chance to discuss the latest and best fiction at the local library.

September – Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon (2003). A fresh and inventive novel narrated by 15-year-old Christopher Boone, an autistic math genius who has just discovered the dead body of his neighbor’s poodle, Wellington.

October – Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey (1951). This is a classic “cold case” mystery in which a 20th century policeman sees a picture of Richard III and reinvestigates Richard’s role in the murder of the princes in the Tower using information about Richard’s time.

November – Mistress of Spices, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1997). Tilo, proprietress of the Spice Bazaar in Oakland, California, is not the elderly Indian woman she appears to be. Trained as a mistress of spices, she evokes the magical powers of the spices of her homeland to help her customers.

February – Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1988)

March – The Devil in the White City: Murder: Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, by Erik Larson (2003) This is non-fiction.

April – A Dream in Polar Fog, by Yuri Rytkheu (2005)

May – Book talk and Selection of Titles for September, 2007