Book of the Year Award 2012

Last night at a black-tie gala held at Slow Hand BBQ in Pleasant Hill (1941 Oak Park Blvd Pleasant Hill, CA 94523) the Pleasant Hill Book Club met to vote on the winners of the presitgious Best and Worst Book of the Year Awards!

and the winners are...


The winner of the the PHBC Best Book of 2012 goes to...

Unbroken! (A true-life accounting of Louis Zamperini's WWII experience)
(2nd Place- Before I go to Sleep)
(3rd Place- Devil in the White City)


The recipient of the PHBC Worst Book of 2012 goes to...

A Night of Horrors! (A straight to e-book quasi-fictional account of the Lincoln assassination)
(2nd Worst- Communion)
(3rd Worst- The Jefferson Key)

Congratulations to Garrett D. for choosing the Best Book of the Year! Congrats also go out to Bryan S. for choosing our Worst Book of the Year! Both are first time reward recipients. 

December Book of the Month: The Jefferson Key by Steve Berry

via goodreads.com

Four United States presidents have been assassinated—in 1865, 1881, 1901, and 1963—each murder seemingly unrelated and separated by time.

But what if those presidents were all killed for the same reason: a clause in the United States Constitution—contained within Article 1, Section 8—that would shock Americans?

This question is what faces former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone in his latest adventure.  When a bold assassination attempt is made against President Danny Daniels in the heart of Manhattan, Malone risks his life to foil the killing—only to find himself at dangerous odds with the Commonwealth, a secret society of pirates first assembled during the American Revolution. In their most perilous exploit yet, Malone and Cassiopeia Vitt race across the nation and take to the high seas. Along the way they break a secret cipher originally possessed by Thomas Jefferson, unravel a mystery concocted by Andrew Jackson, and unearth a centuries-old document forged by the Founding Fathers themselves, one powerful enough—thanks to that clause in the Constitution—to make the Commonwealth unstoppable.