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Read the book and come for a lively discussion.
Copies, provided by The Friends of BTL, are available
at the Adult Circulation desk one month prior to the meeting, and most books are also available on digital platforms.
New members are always welcome! |
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Daytime Book Discussion - 3rd Wednesday of the month: 11:00 - 12:00pm |
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Wednesday, January 21 @ 11:00 am . The God of the Woods by Liz MooreA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide. Moore's multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore's most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet. |
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Wednesday, February 18 @ 11:00 am The Song of the Lark by Willa CatherWilla Cather's Song of the Lark is a powerful story of artistic ambition and personal growth. This literary classic explores the life of a woman artist, tracing her journey from her roots in Nebraska to the demanding world of opera. |
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Wednesday, March 18 @ 11:00 am The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael FinkelFor centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stâephane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years-in museums and cathedrals all over Europe-Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser's strange and fascinating world. |
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Wednesday, April 15 @ 11:00 am The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty by Valerie BauerleinAlex Murdaugh was a benevolent dictator--the president of the South Carolina trial lawyers' association, a political boss, a part-time prosecutor, and a partner in his family's law firm. He was always ready with a favor, a drink, and an invitation to Moselle, his family's 1,700-acre hunting estate. ...When he murdered his wife Maggie and son Paul at Moselle on a dark summer night, the fragile facðade of Alex's world could no longer hold. |
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Wednesday, May 20 @ 11:00 am The Antidote by Karen RussellNATIONAL BESTSELLER - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town The Antidote echoes with urgent warnings for our own climate emergency, challenging readers with a vision of what might have been--and what still could be. |
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Wednesday, June 17 @ 11:00 am
Named One of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly - One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 - A National Bestseller - A New York Times Editor's Choice pick - Nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Captivating and unclassifiable, at once a historical novel and a philosophical foray . .A story centered around one of the great geniuses of the modern age, the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the uncanny circuit of his mind deep into our own time's most haunting dilemmas--A work of beauty and fabulous momentum, The MANIAC confronts us with the deepest questions we face as a species.
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Wednesday, July 15 @ 11:00 am Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley TucciFrom award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate ... memoir of life in and out of the kitchen-. |
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Wednesday, August 19 @ 11:00 am SHORT STORY SELECTIONS
Staff Favorites More info to follow ************* |
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Wednesday, September 16 @ 11:00 am The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le GuinWith a new introduction by Kelly Link, the Locus Award-winning science fiction novel by legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin, set in a world where one man's dreams rewrite the future. During a time racked by war and environmental catastrophe, George Orr discovers his dreams alter reality. George is compelled to receive treatment from Dr. William Haber, an ambitious sleep psychiatrist who quickly grasps the immense power George holds. After becoming adept at manipulating George's dreams to reshape the world, Haber seeks the same power for himself. George--with some surprising help--must resist Haber's attempts, which threaten to destroy reality itself. A classic of the science fiction genre, The Lathe of Heaven is prescient in its exploration of the moral risks when overwhelming power is coupled with techno-utopianism. |
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Wednesday, October 21 @ 11:00 am A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Set in mid-1970s India, this book tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a State of Internal Emergency. Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances - and their fates - become inextricably linked in ways no one could have foreseen. A Fine Balance is a vivid, richly textured, and powerful novel written by one of the most gifted writers of our time. |
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Wednesday, November 18 @ 11:00 am Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John VaillantIn May 2016, the city of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, burned to the ground, forcing 88,000 people to flee their homes. It was the largest evacuation ever of a city in the face of a forest fire, raising the curtain on a new age of increasingly destructive wildfires. This book is a suspenseful account of one of North America's most devastating forest fires-and a stark exploration of our dawning era of climate catastrophes-- |
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Wednesday, December 16 @ 11:00 am By the Sea by Abdulrazak GurnahBack in Zanzibar, Saleh Omar had a furniture shop, owned a house, was a husband and father. Now, newly arrived at London's Gatwick Airport, he is just another asylum seeker. A mahogany box of fragrant ud is his most precious possession, silence his only protection. Meanwhile, Latif Mahmud, a young professor, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When the two encounter each other in an English seaside town, the narratives each carries of their shared past begin to unravel -- revealing an infinitely more fascinating story of love and betrayal, of seduction and possession, of people struggling for stability amid the maelstrom of their times.-- |
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Evening Book Discussion - 1st Tuesday of the month: 7:30 - 8:30pm |
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Tuesday, January 6 @ 7:30 pm The Antidote by Karen RussellNATIONAL BESTSELLER - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town. The Antidote echoes with urgent warnings for our own climate emergency, challenging readers with a vision of what might have been--and what still could be. |
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Tuesday, February 3 @ 7:30 pm The Maniac by Benjamin LabatutNamed One of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly - One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 - A National Bestseller - A New York Times Editor's Choice pick - Nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Captivating and unclassifiable, at once a historical novel and a philosophical foray . .A story centered around one of the great geniuses of the modern age, the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the uncanny circuit of his mind deep into our own time's most haunting dilemmas--A work of beauty and fabulous momentum, The MANIAC confronts us with the deepest questions we face as a species. |
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Tuesday, March 3 @ 7:30 pm Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley TucciFrom award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen. |
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Tuesday, April 7 @ 7:30 pm
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide. Moore's multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore's most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.
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Tuesday, May 5 @ 7:30 pm For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stâephane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years-in museums and cathedrals all over Europe-Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser's strange and fascinating world. |
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Tuesday, June 2 @ 7:30 pm The Song of the Lark by Willa CatherWilla Cather's Song of the Lark is a powerful story of artistic ambition and personal growth. This literary classic explores the life of a woman artist, tracing her journey from her roots in Nebraska to the demanding world of opera. |
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Tuesday, July 7 @ 7:30 pm Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John VaillantIn May 2016, the city of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, burned to the ground, forcing 88,000 people to flee their homes. It was the largest evacuation ever of a city in the face of a forest fire, raising the curtain on a new age of increasingly destructive wildfires. This book is a suspenseful account of one of North America's most devastating forest fires-and a stark exploration of our dawning era of climate catastrophes-- |
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Tuesday, August 4 @ 7:30 pm SHORT STORY SELECTIONS
Staff Favorites More info to follow ************* |
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Tuesday, September 1 @ 7:30 pm By the Sea by Abdulrazak GurnahBack in Zanzibar, Saleh Omar had a furniture shop, owned a house, was a husband and father. Now, newly arrived at London's Gatwick Airport, he is just another asylum seeker. A mahogany box of fragrant ud is his most precious possession, silence his only protection. Meanwhile, Latif Mahmud, a young professor, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When the two encounter each other in an English seaside town, the narratives each carries of their shared past begin to unravel -- revealing an infinitely more fascinating story of love and betrayal, of seduction and possession, of people struggling for stability amid the maelstrom of their times.-- |
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Tuesday, October 6 @ 7:30 pm Alex Murdaugh was a benevolent dictator--the president of the South Carolina trial lawyers' association, a political boss, a part-time prosecutor, and a partner in his family's law firm. He was always ready with a favor, a drink, and an invitation to Moselle, his family's 1,700-acre hunting estate. ...When he murdered his wife Maggie and son Paul at Moselle on a dark summer night, the fragile facðade of Alex's world could no longer hold. |
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Tuesday, November 3 @ 7:30 pm The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le GuinWith a new introduction by Kelly Link, the Locus Award-winning science fiction novel by legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin, set in a world where one man's dreams rewrite the future. During a time racked by war and environmental catastrophe, George Orr discovers his dreams alter reality. George is compelled to receive treatment from Dr. William Haber, an ambitious sleep psychiatrist who quickly grasps the immense power George holds. After becoming adept at manipulating George's dreams to reshape the world, Haber seeks the same power for himself. George--with some surprising help--must resist Haber's attempts, which threaten to destroy reality itself. A classic of the science fiction genre, The Lathe of Heaven is prescient in its exploration of the moral risks when overwhelming power is coupled with techno-utopianism. |
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Tuesday, December 1 @ 7:30 pm
Set in mid-1970s India, this book tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a State of Internal Emergency. Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances - and their fates - become inextricably linked in ways no one could have foreseen. A Fine Balance is a vivid, richly textured, and powerful novel written by one of the most gifted writers of our time.
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