One County, One Book

2014 Winning Title:
The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball

• "Meet the Author: Kristin Kimball"
• "Small Farm Rising" film and discussion presented by retired teacher Mary Anne Mangano
• "Outstanding in the Arcade" Hosted by Proctors and Schenectady Greenmarket
• "Meet Ellen Stimson, author of Mud Season"
• "The Hero's Journey" writers' workshop facilitated by Susannah Risley
• Dinner and book discussions at Cella Bistro
• "Farming, Cooking and Eating Locally" panel discussion hosted by Schenectady Greenmarket with panelists Christina Davis, Cheryl Nechamen, and Chris Chandler

2013 Winning Title:
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

• "When Your Pet Dies: Grieving the Loss of Companion Animals" with Haven Bereavement Support Center
• "All About Pets" presented by the Animal Protective Foundation
• "Dogs & People: the Heart Connection" with Susan Hamlin
• "Meet the Author: Garth Stein"
• Mazda Miata race car, owned by Tom Campbell, display
• Book discussions of The Art of Racing in the Rain and Racing in the Rain (the children's companion novel)

2011 Winning Title:
My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira

• OCOB Kick-off: Book Review by Melinda Lawson, PhD., Lecturer and Director of the Public History Program at Union College
• "An Evening of Readings: Civil War Voices": readings of Civil War journals, diaries, letters, and poems by local notables
• 2011 Art Contest: "America Through My Eyes"
• "Journey to the Past: Writing Historical Fiction" facilitated by Susannah Risley and Katherine Chansky
• "Women in the Civil War" presented by Dr. Amy Murrell Taylor, Professor, SUNY Albany
• "Lunch with Robin Oliveira" and "Meet the Author: Robin Oliveira"
• "Living History Day" at Mabee Farms

2010 Winning Title:
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

• 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 Gruen

• "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 Hosseini

• 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 Picoult

• “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 Lee

• 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