The opening session of the Winter/Spring 2012 Gere BooksTalks was a host-free opportunity for attendees to share what they'd been reading lately. Here's a list of what was volunteered by the group's members:

When the Yankees Came
by Stephen V. Ash [ not owned by the libraries ]

Wonderland Creek
by Lynn Austin [Austin]

Empire Express
by David Haward Bain [385 Bai]

Old Iron Road
by David Haward Bain [385 Bai]

Death of a Chimney Sweep
by M.C. Beaton [Beaton]

Hardtack and Coffee
by John Davis Billings [973.741 Bil]

Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness
by Richard M. Cohen [616.834 Coh]

The Drop
by Michael Connelly [Connelly]

Girl She Used to Be
by David Cristofano [Cristofano]

Believing the Lie
by Elizabeth George [George]

The Bill Slider series
by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles [Harrod-Eagles]

Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History
by Alan Huffman [ not owned by the libraries ]

Another Man's Moccasins
by Craig Johnson [Johnson]

Hell is Empty
by Craig Johnson [Johnson]

Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
by David King [364.152 Kin]

Northwest Angle
by William Kent Krueger [Krueger]

Acqua Alta
by Donna Leon [Leon]

Betrayal at the Vel d'Hiv
by Claude Levy [940.547 Lev]

Catherine the Great
by Robert K. Massie [Biography Catherine]

Tag Man
by Archer Mayor [Mayor]

Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History
by Ben Mezrich [629.4 Mez]

Destiny of the Republic: Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by Candice Millard [364.152 Mil]

Light From a Distant Star
by Mary McGarry Morris [Morris]

Spark of Death
by Bernadette Pajer [Pajer]

Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton
by Jeff Pearlman [Biography Payton]

Acceptable Loss
by Anne Perry [Perry]

Foul Play at Four
by Ann Purser [Purser]

Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
by Richard Rhodes [Biography Lamarr]

Sarah's Key
based on the book by Tatiana de Rosnay [DVD Sarah's]

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
by Helen Simonson [Simonson]

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot [Biography Lacks]

Winged Obsession
by Jessica Speart [364.133 Spe]

American Boy
by Larry Watson [Watson]

Montana 1948
by Larry Watson [Watson]

Before I Go to Sleep
by S.J. Watson [Watson]

Alice Behind Wonderland
by Simon Winchester [Biography Carroll]