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Lifespan Programs
Below are many of the learning opportunities and social activities available at Don Heights Unitarian Congregation. We welcome new people

Don Heights Book Group
Summer is finally here and many of us make reading an important part of our enjoyment of the season. The Don Heights Book Group has made its selections for the coming year and you may want to investigate some of these varied and interesting books now rather than later. Here are the choices:

September 19, Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls of Glass Castle fame. This compelling novel is the story of the author’s eccentric grandmother who lived in a dirt dugout in west Texas.

October 17, One Night at the Call Centre by Chetan Bhagat – Six friends work nights at a call centre in India, providing technical support for a major U.S. corporation. Skilled in patience and accent management, they help others deal with life, while dealing with their own problematic lives.

November 21, A Year by the Sea by Joan Anderson. The story of a woman’s journey of self-discovery and re-creation of herself. How the discovery of oneself as an “unfinished woman” opens up a world of possibilities.

January 16, Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro. As with many of Munro’s books we meet the towns and cities of southwestern Ontario and coastal B.C. and the people who live there, boxed in by convention, family, and self-sabotage. Many think this is her best book of short stories.

February 20, The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore. Two men with the same name, same town, and very different lives. Thought provoking – why does one child succeed, while the other fails. How can society intervene to improve young lives?

March 20, Dahanu Road by Anosh Irani. Zairos, a dissolute young landowner’s son, living outside Mumbai in India, has a taboo love affair and learns terrible truths about his family’s wealth.

April 10, Small Wonder – A Book of Essays by Barbara Kingsolver. The essays vary from a contemplation of the Grand Canyon, the new realities of American life after 9/11, and genetic engineering.

May 15, Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner. The Canada Reads book for this year, this is the story of three young people, born in Canada thousands of miles apart, who set out to discover what are the anchors in their lives.

June 19, Africa House by Christina Lamb. The house Shiwa Ngandu was built by Stewart Gore-Browne, a British colonial, who came to what was then Northern Rhodesia to fulfill a dream, and ended up playing a major role in the creation of Zambia.

 All of these books are available at the Toronto Public Library. If you plan to attend any or all of the Book Group meetings, consider putting a hold on some or all of these titles. So that you don’t get all the books at once, check the box beside each book title in your Holds list and click on “Make Inactive”. That way your name will rise to the head of the Hold list, but you won’t get the book until you mark the hold as “Active”. Talk to me, Sandra Morgan, Ellen Jamal or others in the Book Group on how to make your holds Inactive and then Active if you are having problems with this procedure. Mary Doucette