February 15: \;Interview with the Vampire by Anne R ice
\nHaving suffered a tremendous personal loss\, an 18th-century L ouisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoh olic stupor. At his deepest point of emotional despair\, he is confronted by Lestat\, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents\, give their "dark gift" to a young girl\, and seek out others of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Arma nd) in Paris. \;
\nMarch 21: \;In the Heart of the Sea \;by Nathaniel Philbrick\n
In the Heart of the Sea \;brings to new life the incredible sto ry of the wreck of the whaleship Essex--an event as mythic in its own cent ury as the Titanic disaster in ours\, and the inspiration for the climax o f Moby-Dick. In 1820\, the 240-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a rout ine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later\, in the farthest reaches of t he South Pacific\, it was repeatedly rammed and sunk by an eighty-ton bull sperm whale. Its twenty-man crew\, fearing cannibals on the islands to th e west\, made for the 3\,000-mile-distant coast of South America in three tiny boats. During ninety days at sea under horrendous conditions\, the su rvivors clung to life as one by one\, they succumbed to hunger\, thirst\, disease\, and fear. \;
\nApril 18: \;Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
\nWhen Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible ba chelor Fitzwilliam Darcy\, she thinks him arrogant and conceited\; he is i ndifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers tha t Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his frie nd Bingley and her beloved sister Jane\, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows\, Jane Aus ten shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes th e friendships\, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.&nbs p\;
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