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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 all books are also available on digital platforms.
New members are always welcome! NOTE: VIRTUAL MEETINGS DO REQUIRE REGISTRATION IN ORDER TO RECEIVE ZOOM LINK |
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Daytime Book Discussion - 3rd Wednesday of the month: 10:00 - 11:00am |
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Wednesday, January 20 @ 10:00 am VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter WohllebenA newly illustrated edition of the internationally best-selling guide to the diversity of forests features lush, large-format photos that provide unique glimpses of bark and seeds, vast green panoramas and what is thought to be the oldest tree on earth. ************* |
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Wednesday, February 17 @ 10:00 am Shuggie Bain : a novel by Douglas StuartA young boy growing up in a rundown 1980s Glasgow public housing facility pursues some semblance of a normal life as his older siblings move on and his mother increasingly succumbs to alcoholism. A first novel. ************* |
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Wednesday, March 17 @ 10:00 am VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING ************* |
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Wednesday, April 21 @ 10:00 am VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING Travels with Charley : In Search of America by John SteinbeckThe acclaimed author records his emotions and experiences during a journey of rediscovery in his native land, accompanied by his French poodle named Charley. ************* |
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Wednesday, May 19 @ 10:00 am VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING The Fire Next Time by James BaldwinThe powerful evocation of a childhood in Harlem that helped to galvanize the early days of the civil rights movement examines the deep consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic. ************* |
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Wednesday, June 16 @ 10:00 am VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING The Good Lord Bird by James McBrideFleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859. |
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Wednesday, July 21 @ 10:00 am VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING The Sheltering Sky by Paul BowlesAn influential novel first published in 1949 follows three Americans as they endure the dangers of the North African desert, losing their smug superiority in the face of a strange and difficult world and their encounters with the limits of human existence and a people utterly alien to them. ************* |
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Wednesday, August 18 @ 10:00 am VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING The Summer Book by Tove JanssonPresents twenty-two vignettes which tell the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and her grandmother, nearing the end of her life, as they spend the summer on a tiny island off the coast of Finland. ************* |
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Wednesday, September 15 @ 10:00 am ************* |
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Wednesday, October 20 @ 10:00 am The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō TanizakiFour sisters of a respected Japanese family find different ways to cope with the harsh realities of life in postwar Japan. ************* |
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Wednesday, November 17 @ 10:00 am Nomadland : Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica BruderThe author chronicles her time embedded in a pool of transient older Americans who have taken to the road in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads, migrant laborers who call themselves "workampers." ************* |
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Wednesday, December 15 @ 10:00 am The Scent of Buenos Aires : Stories by Hebe Uhart"By one of Argentina's greatest contemporary storytellers, The Scent of Buenos Aires gathers twenty-five of Hebe Uhart's most remarkable and incandescent short stories in English for the first time. It draws together her best vignettes of quotidian life:moments at the zoo, the hair salon, or a cacophonous homeowners association meeting. She writes in unconventional, understated syntax, constructing a delightfully specific perspective on life in South America. These stories are marked by sharp humor and wit: discrete and subtle, yet filled with eccentric and insightful characters. ************* |
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Evening Book Discussion - 1st Tuesday of the month: 7:30 - 9:00pm |
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Tuesday, January 5 @ 7:30 pm VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING The Orphan Master's Son : a novelby Adam JohnsonThe son of a singer mother whose career forcibly separated her from her family and an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il. |
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Tuesday, February 2 @ 7:30 pm (Part One)by Edmund MorrisA Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award-winning biography focuses on Theodore Roosevelt's pre-presidential career, covering the period between 1858 to 1901, during which time Roosevelt built himself up from a frail asthmatic youth to a robust man with varied interests. |
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(Part Two)by Edmund MorrisA new edition of the Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award-winning biography focuses on Theodore Roosevelt's pre-presidential career, covering the period between 1858 to 1901, during which time Roosevelt built himself up from a frail asthmatic youth to a robust man with varied interests. |
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Tuesday, April 6 @ 7:30 pm The Hidden Life of Treesby Peter WohllebenA newly illustrated edition of the internationally best-selling guide to the diversity of forests features lush, large-format photos that provide unique glimpses of bark and seeds, vast green panoramas and what is thought to be the oldest tree on earth. |
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An American Marriage : a novelby Tayari JonesWhen her new husband is arrested and imprisoned for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising artist takes comfort in a longtime friendship only to encounter unexpected challenges in resuming her life when her husband's sentence is suddenly overturned. |
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Tuesday, June 1 @ 7:30 pm
Northanger Abbey depicts the misadventures of Catherine Morland, young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels. Their romantic excess and dark overstatement feed her imagination, as tyrannical fathers and diabolical villains work their evil on forlorn heroines in isolated settings.
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Tuesday, July 6 @ 7:30 pm VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING This tender land : a novelby William Kent KruegerFleeing the Depression-era school for Native American children who have been taken from their parents, four orphans share a life-changing journey marked by struggling farmers, faith healers, and lost souls. |
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Tuesday, August 3 @ 7:30 pm VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING |
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Tuesday, September 7 @ 7:30 pm An American River: From Paradise to Superfund, Afloat on New Jersey's Passaic by Mary Bruno In An American River, author and New Jersey native Mary Bruno kayaks its length in an effort to discover what happened to her hometown river. |
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Tuesday, October 5 @ 7:30 pm Circe : a novelby Madeline MillerFollows Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals. |
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Tuesday, November 2 @ 7:30 pm The Fire Next Timeby James BaldwinThe powerful evocation of a childhood in Harlem that helped to galvanize the early days of the civil rights movement examines the deep consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic. |
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Tuesday, December 7 @ 7:30 pm Much Ado About Nothingby William Shakespeare"Much Ado has always been popular on the stage. This edition pays especial attention to the history and range of theatrical interpretation, in which the most famous actors, from the time of Garrick to the present, have appeared as the sparring lovers Benedick and Beatrice. A full commentary includes annotation of the many sexual jokes in the play that have been obscured by the complexity of Elizabethan language" |
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