Summer 2008

Library Summer Hours
The DC library will be open M-F 10-4pm June
16th through July 30th. The library will support

1) Madonna online classes for DC students taking
college credit classes;
2) ACT prep classes
(M,T,TH 2-4pm 6/16-7/6);
3) Thursday Night
Book Club (see titles and times below);
4) Classics
for the College-Bound (see titles and times below);
5) "Educational Technology" professional
development class for faculty and staff
(www.madonna.edu/pages/EDUPDP.cfm ) . For
more information, please contactMr. Danielson-
Francois at serge@divinechildhighschool.org

Thursday Night Book Club ( see our blog
http://tnbookclub.blogspot.com)

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and
Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle (6/19 7-
9pm)

Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of
the Death Penalty in the United States by Sr.
Helen Prejean (7/17 7-9pm)

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a
Small Town by John Grisham (8/14 7-9pm)

Classics for the College-Bound http://
www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/bookl istsawards/
outstandingbooks/fictionoutstanding.cfm
( every Monday 12-1pm 6/16, 6/23, 6/30, 7/7,
7/14, 7/21, 7/28)

Anaya, Rudolfo. Bless Me, Ultima. 1972.
Ultima, a wise old mystic, helps a young Hispanic
boy resolve personal dilemmas caused by
the differing backgrounds and aspirations of his
parents and society.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment.
1866. (over 2 weeks)
A sensitive intellectual is driven by poverty to
believe himself exempt from moral law.


Malamud, Bernard. The Fixer. 1966.
Victim of a vicious anti-Semitic conspiracy, Yakov Bok
is in a Russian prison with only his indomitable will
to sustain him.

O'Connor, Flannery. Everything That Rises Must
Converge. 1965. Stories about misfits in small Southern
towns force the reader to confront hypocrisy and
complacency.

Wright, Richard. Native Son. 1940. (over 2 weeks)
For Bigger Thomas, an African American man accused
of a crime in the white man's world, there could be no
extenuating circumstances, no explanations and only
death.