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Second and Fourth
Thursdays of the month
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.,
year-round
Coffee and
conversation for readers
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Assistant Director
Susanne Sullivan will talk about some of the Library's newest books
-- and then hopes to hear about what you've been reading! Book
lovers are always interested in what others have enjoyed, and most
of us delight in spreading the word about favorite books and
authors.
There is no
required reading and no obligation to speak. You may simply
listen if you like. Let us introduce you to books you might
never have discovered on your own, and to authors we hope you'll
love.
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"The Last Wednesday Book Group"
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Last
Wednesday of every month
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Join us for lively discussions! |
No
registration is needed and newcomers are welcome to drop in at any
time.
Light refreshments served.
Copies of each book will be available at the Circulation Desk
one month before the discussion date: pick one up at your
convenience!
Our next
read:
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The Memory Keeper’s Daughter BY Kim Edwards
The story of a doctor’s fateful decision and its consequences: on the night of a blizzard in 1964, a doctor helps his wife give birth to twins, one a perfect boy and the other a girl with Down Syndrome. Hoping to spare his wife pain, he tells his nurse to take the child to an institution and never reveal what she has done. He tells his wife that their son’s twin sister died at birth. What would you have done?
“One moment, one choice, and an ever-widening circle of consequences.”
Guided discussion led by
Barbara and Bill Rustenburg
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
7-8:30 p.m. |
Jodi Picoult’s
Nineteen Minutes
This is a thriller about a high school shooting rampage that lasted 19 minutes. As the prosecutor later points out, "In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. You can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist. Or . . . you can bring the world to a screeching halt."
This is a thriller that asks serious moral questions. A thriller that will help you to understand WHY.
Jodi Picoult's books explore all the shades of gray in a
world too often judged in black and white."
-- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Guided discussion led by Susan Gray
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
7-8:30 p.m. |
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Upcoming Reads |
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| July 30, 2008 |
Infidel |
Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
A discussion leader guides the
exchange of ideas each month.
Light refreshments are
served. Please join us!
Would YOU like to lead a
discussion of a favorite book? Contact Susanne
Sullivan
to select a title and choose a
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Past Reads
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April 30, 2008
February 27, 2008
January 30, 2008 |
King Rat
Madame Bovary
Catch 22 |
James Clavell
Gustave Flaubert
Joseph Heller |
Nov. 28, 2007 |
Wish You Well |
David Baldacci |
October 30, 2007
Sept. 26, 2007 |
The Maltese Falcon
Riding the Bus With My Sister |
Dashiell Hammett
Rachel Simon |
| Aug. 29, 2007 |
Survival at Auschwitz |
Primo Levi |
| July 25, 2007 |
The Time Traveler's Wife |
Audrey Niffenegger |
| June 27, 2007 |
In Revere, in Those Days |
Roland Merulla |
| May
30, 2007 |
Ponzi's
Scheme |
Mitchell Zuckoff |
| Apr. 25, 2007 |
The
Amateur Marriage |
Anne Tyler |
| Mar. 28, 2007 |
Crow
Lake |
Mary Lawson |
| Feb. 28, 2007 |
Frankenstein |
Mary Shelley |
| Jan. 31, 007 |
The Kite
Runner |
Khaled Hosseini |
| Nov. 16, 2006 |
The
Quiet American |
Graham Greene |
| Oct. 19, 2006 |
Artemis
Fowl |
Eoin Colfer |
| Sept. 21, 2006 |
Middlesex |
Jeffrey Eugenides |
| Aug. 17, 2006 |
Snow
Flower and the Secret Fan |
Lisa See |
| July 20, 2006 |
Nickel
and Dimed |
Barbara Ehrenreich |
| June 15, 2006 |
Angry
Housewives Eating Bon Bons |
Lorna Landvik |
| May 17,
2006 |
Dark
Tide: the great Boston molasses flood of
1919 |
Stephen
Puleo |
| April 20,
2006 |
Bringing
Down the House |
Ben Mezrich |
| March 16,
2006 |
How the
Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents |
Julia Alvarez |
| Feb. 16,
2006 |
The
Poisonwood Bible |
Barbara Kingsolver |
| Jan 19,
2006 |
House of
Sand and Fog |
Andre Dubus III |
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