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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. New members are always welcome! No registration required.
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Daytime Book Discussion - 3rd Wednesday of the month: 10:00 - 11:00am
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Wednesday, January 16 @ 10:00 am Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPheeDepicts the problems which ensue when a mining engineer, a resort developer, and a civil engineer alternately confront a militant conservationist.
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Wednesday, February 13* @ 10:00 am Station Eleven : a novel by Emily St. John MandelThe sudden death of a Hollywood actor during a production of King Lear marks the beginning of the world's dissolution, in a story told at various past and future times from the perspectives of the actor and four of his associates. * Note - 2nd Wednesday of the month
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Wednesday, March 20 @ 10:00 am Exit West by Mohsin HamidThe internationally best-selling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist presents the story of two young lovers whose furtive affair is shaped by local unrest on the eve of a civil war that erupts in a cataclysmic bombing attack, forcing them to abandon their previous home and lives.
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Wednesday, April 17 @ 10:00 am The Quiet American by Graham GreeneAn eager American envoy is mysteriously assigned to Saigon during the French occupation of Indochina.
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Wednesday, May 15 @ 10:00 am born a year apart in the same community, describing how the author grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, White House Fellow and promising business leader while his counterpart suffered a life of violence and imprisonment.
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Wednesday, June 19 @ 10:00 am A Room with a View by E. M. ForsterThe love of a young British woman named Lucy Honeychurch for a British expatriate living in Italy is condemned by her stuffy, middle-class guardians, who prefer an eligible man of their own choosing.
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Wednesday, July 17 @ 10:00 am In the Unlikely Event : a novel by Judy BlumeThirty-five years after a series of airplanes crashed in New Jersey, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth to attend a commermoration of the worst year in her life.
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Wednesday, August 21 @ 10:00 am Manhattan Beach : a novel by Jennifer EganYears after she is placed in the hands of a stranger vital to her family's survival, Anna takes a job at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during the war while meeting with the man who helped them and learning important truths about her father's disappearance.
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Wednesday, September 18 @ 10:00 am A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesDeemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he endures life in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold. By the best-selling author of Rules of Civility.
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Wednesday, October 16 @ 10:00 am pgs.1 - 253by Edgar Allan PoeThe father of the detective novel and an innovator in the genre of American Gothic fiction, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1949) made his living as America's first great literary critic. Today he is best remembered for his short stories and poems, haunting worksof horror and mystery that remain popular around the world. This anthology presents Poe's finest works in a rich selection of poetry and prose.
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Wednesday, November 20 @ 10:00 am Go Set a Watchman by Harper LeeTwenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
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Wednesday, December 18 @ 10:00 am 10,000 American women who served as codebreakers during World War II, detailing how their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives and enabled their subsequent careers, in an account that also reveals the strict practice of secrecy that nearly erased their efforts from history.
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Evening Book Discussion - 1st Tuesday of the month: 7:30 - 9:00pm
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Tuesday, January 8 @ 7:30 pm A Gentleman in Moscowby Amor TowlesDeemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he endures life in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold. By the best-selling author of Rules of Civility.
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Tuesday, February 5 @ 7:30 pm Leonardo da Vinci (Chapters 1 - 19)by Walter IsaacsonThe best-selling author of Benjamin Franklin draws on da Vinci's remarkable notebooks as well as new discoveries about his life and work in a narrative portrait that connects the master's art to his science, demonstrating how da Vinci's genius was based on the skills and qualities of everyday people, from curiosity and observation to imagination and fantasy.
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Tuesday, March 5 @ 7:30 pm Leonardo da Vinci (Chapters 20 - end)by Walter IsaacsonThe best-selling author of Benjamin Franklin draws on da Vinci's remarkable notebooks as well as new discoveries about his life and work in a narrative portrait that connects the master's art to his science, demonstrating how da Vinci's genius was based on the skills and qualities of everyday people, from curiosity and observation to imagination and fantasy.
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Tuesday, April 2 @ 7:30 pm The Sympathizerby Viet Thanh NguyenFollows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.
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Tuesday, May 14* @ 7:30 pm true account of the early 20th-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. *Note - 2nd Tuesday of the month
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Tuesday, June 4 @ 7:30 pm Code Girls : The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War IIby Liza MundyDocuments the pivotal contributions of more than 10,000 American women who served as codebreakers during World War II, detailing how their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives and enabled their subsequent careers, in an account that also reveals the strict practice of secrecy that nearly erased their efforts from history.
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Tuesday, July 2 @ 7:30 pm A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainianby Marina LewyckaPutting aside a lifetime of rivalry when they learn that their recently widowed father is planning to remarry a gold-digging woman, sisters Vera and Nadezhda find themselves outmaneuvered by their father's scheming fiancée, a situation that is compromised by a hurricane, family secrets, and their father's obsession with tractor history.
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Tuesday, August 13 @ 7:30 pm The Untold History of Englishby John McWhorterA survey of the English language's usage mysteries considers the ways in which English developed and how it may reflect cultural values, in a reference that covers such topics as Celtic and Welsh influences, the origins of specific syntax patterns, and the role of language in forming early Britain. *Note - 2nd Tuesday of month
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Tuesday, September 3 @ 7:30 pm rebels against his family, education, and country by committing himself to the artist's lifestyle.
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Tuesday, October 1 @ 7:30 pm Short Fictions and Illusionsby Neil GaimanThe author offers a collection of tales, several of them new, of strange inventions, miraculous encounters, and bizarre discoveries.
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Tuesday, November 5 @ 7:30 pm A Lifetime of Discoveryby Scott KellyAn illustrated memoir by the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station shares candid reminiscences of his voyage, his colorful formative years and the off-planet journeys that shaped his early career.
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Tuesday, December 3 @ 7:30 pm
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