February Book: Shadow Divers at Jim's

Join us Jim's for an thrilling discussion about the story of two Americans who risked everything to solve one of the Last Mysteries of WWII.

January Book: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

The book is a collection of 'economic' articles written by Levitt, an expert who has already gained a reputation for applying economic theory to diverse subjects not usually covered by "traditional" economists; he does, however, accept the standard neoclassical microeconomic model of rational utility-maximization. In Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner argue that economics is, at root, the study of incentives. The book's topics include:

• Chapter 1: Discovering cheating as applied to teachers and sumo wrestlers (See below)
• Chapter 2: Information control as applied to the Ku Klux Klan and real-estate agents
• Chapter 3: The economics of drug dealing, including the surprisingly low earnings and abject working conditions of crack cocaine dealers
• Chapter 4: The controversial role legalized abortion may have played in reducing crime. (Levitt explored this topic in an earlier paper entitled "The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime.")
• Chapter 5: The negligible effects of good parenting on education
• Chapter 6: The socioeconomic patterns of naming children

December Book: Runaway by alice Munro

Join us for one of north america's best writers, Alic Munro, as she tells her fascinating stories. Munro's prose and writing haunt us as we end each story. At times intense and depressing, these stores never failed to capture our hearts and minds.
- E. B.