By Jane Phillips About a year ago, a few of us here in the Meander Valley decided to start a book club with a bit of a difference. Given everything going on in the world at the moment, particularly in the Middle East, we wanted to learn more about the culture and the people of that region, and we figured reading their stories was a pretty good place to start. So far we have worked our way through some wonderful novels and short stories, and we are hoping to branch out into other genres before too long. Books we have...