ECW Book Club
Host: Pat Holmes
We meet again - September 16
10 am - 11 am, Chapel Family Room
September 16
My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende
In 1866, a Chilean aristocrat travels to San Francisco and seduces and abandons a young Irish nun. In this riveting historical fiction novel, twenty years later, their journalist daughter travels to Chile to cover a civil war and learn about her father and herself.
Optional extra since the summer is so long: Table for Two by Amor Towles
Short stories and a novella by the author of A Gentleman in Moscow.
October 21
Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
A heartfelt epic new novel about friendship, betrayal, and redemption in the decades surrounding the overthrow of the Shah of Iran.
November 18
The Art Spy by Michelle Young
A riveting, stylish saga set in Paris during WWII. How a woman spy infiltrated Nazi leadership to save the world’s most treasured masterpieces.
December 16
The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
A charming and uplifting novel full of mystery and secrets. A light book for the Christmas holidays.
Patricia Hunt Holmes spent 30 years as a public finance attorney with a large international law firm, specializing in nonprofit healthcare finance and rural electric cooperative finance. Consistently listed in Best Lawyers in America, Texas Super Lawyers, and Top Lawyers in Houston, she was a frequent speaker at national public finance and health care conferences. Patricia has also served on the faculty of the University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Tennessee, and University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She has written and published in the fields of intellectual history and law.
In addition to her legal career, Patricia has been a member and board member of several social service organizations throughout Houston, including the United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast Women’s Initiative, Dress for Success Houston, the University of Houston Women’s Studies Program, University of Houston Law Review Board of Directors, is a Trustee of the Houston Grand Opera, and Houston Justice for Our Neighbors.