GFWC Women's Club of South County
BOOK & AUTHOR LUNCHEON
Our 20th annual Book & Author Luncheon, held July 10, 2019, at the Dunes Club in Narragansett, raised a record-breaking $35,000, thanks to the financial contributions of generous sponsors, to the raffle prizes and time donated by caring businesses and individuals, and to our attendees, who enjoyed an enriching afternoon devoted to books and authors while donating to a worthy cause. The event is the major fundraiser of the GFWC Women’s Club of South County. Thanks especially to our master of ceremonies, Michaela Johnson, and to our authors, Nancy Thayer, Lynne Heinzmann, and Bill Harley.
2019
Nancy Thayer’s Surfside Sisters
Lynne Heinzmann’s Frozen Voices
Bill Harley’s Dirty Joe the Pirate
2018
Rachel Kadish's The Weight of Ink
Hank Phillippi Ryan's Say No More
Marianne Leone's Ma Speaks Up
2017
Ann Hood's The Book That Matters Most
Anna Solomon's Leaving Lucy Pear
Gina Barreca's "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?"
2016
Barbara Shapiro's The Muralist
Dawn Tripp's Georgia: A Novel
Michelle Hoover's Bottomland
2015
Linda Beaulieu's Providence & Rhode Island Chef's Table
Barbara Ross's Musseled Out
Peter Mandal's Jackhammer Sam" and "Zoo Ah-Chooo
2014
Maria Mutch's Know the Night
Dawn Tripp's Games of Secrets
Joan Wickersham's The News from Spain
2013
Barbara Shapiro's The Art Forger
Ed Hardy's Keeper and Kid
Anika Denise's Pigs Love Potatoes" and "Bella and Stella Come Home
2012
Mary Flynn's and Nancy Verde Barr's The Pink Ribbon Diet
Paul A. Ruggieri's Confessions of a Surgeon
Kara LaReau's OTTO
2011
David Dosa's Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat
Ann Hood's The Red Thread and The Knitting Circle
Allen Kurzweil's Potato Chip Science: 29 Incredible Experiments and Leon and the Champion Chip
2010
Marsha Karzmer's How Old Is Beautiful?
Anne-Louise Sterry's Aunt Lena's Cucina
Padma Venkatraman's Climbing the Stairs
2009
Nancy Verde Barr's Backstage with Julie
Brian Lies' Bats in the Library
William Hubbell's Good Fences
2008
Betty J Cotter's Roberta's Woods, a Novel
Linda Beaulieu's The Providence & Rhode Island Cookbook
Malcolm Greenaway's Block Island, Rhode Island's Jewel
2007
Brian Lies' Bats at the Beach
Johanne Killeen & George Germon's On Top of Spaghetti
Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower
2006
Alan Seale's Intuitive Living
Marc Vassallo's Inside the Not So Big House
Mary Jane Begin's and Mark Allio's R is for Rhode Island Red
2005
Don Bousquet's Rhode Island Cookbook
Richard Benjamin's Rhode Island
Linda Crotta Brennan's Black Regiment of the American Revolution
2004
Linda Beaulieu's and Deborah Moxham's The Grapevine Guide to Rhode Island's Best Restaurants
Claire Cook's Multiple Choice
Loretta LaRoche's Life is Short - Wear Your Party Pants
2003
Sarah Smith's Chasing Shakespeares
Brian Lies' Hamlet and the Enormous Chinese Dragon Kite
Many Ann Esposito's Ciao Italia in Umbria
