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OCOB Past Highlights


  • 2010
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2007
  • 2006

2010 Winning Title: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet

  • OCOB Kick-off: Book Review by Wonja Brucker, Assistant Director SCPL
  • Reading of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet on WMHT-RISE
  • Service project: Literacy Survival Kits for adult ESL students at Washington Irving Education Center
  • "Win Lunch with Jamie Ford"
  • "Jamie Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet: The History of a Love Story", author program at SCCC
  • Facilitated book discussions at Mari's Japanese Restaurant
  • Art & Poetry Contest: "Create an Illustrated Haiku"

2009 Winning Title: Water For Elephants by Sara Gruenwater for elephants

  • "Tell Us What It Was Like: Seniors recall the fabric of life during the Great Depression"
  • "Cooking in Lean Times" Cooking Show
  • "Challenges of Coping with the 'Brave New World'" with Dr. Rudy Nydegger
  • "Riding the Rails: the Great Depression as the Context for Water for Elephants" with Dr. Andrew Morris, Ph.D.
  • "I.O.U.S.A.: One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt" with Maryanne Malecki
  • "Family Fun Circus Day" with Mr. Beau the Clown & Circus Red with
    Rich Kuperberg of Komotion
  • "Everything's Coming up Rosie" book discussion with Gordon Turner, Susannah Risley, and Dr. Noha Abou-Madi, DVM, Msc.

2008 Winning Title: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseinikite runner

  • Kabul Transit discussion with David B. Edwards
  • Kabul in Winter program with author, Ann Jones
  • Service project: working with the Peter M. Goodrich Memorial Foundation
  • Book and film discussion with Jack Rightmyer and Casey Seiler
  • Afghan Culture Fest with food; music by Hossin Noorzai; dancing by Sarah Khaliqi and friends; and cultural demos including afghan kite fighting by Alireza Jawanshir

2007 Winning Title: My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoultmy sister's keeper

  • “Brave New World: the Bioethical Issues Raised in My Sister’s Keeper” led by Robert Baker with a book review by Sue Lehrman
  • "An Afternoon with Jodi Picoult” 
  • Service project: Have a Heart Survival Kits for Albany Medical Center Pediatric Oncology Unit
  • Community Book Discussion

2006 Winning Title: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Leeto kill a mockingbird

  • Pass the Book
  • Get Caught Reading
  • Service project: collecting goods for Bethesda House
  • “Bela Lugosi, Rosa Parks, and Harper Lee” led by Claudia Durst Johnson, Ph.D
  • Film discussion led by Dan DiNicola