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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 18 @ 10:00 am Girl Waits With Gun by Amy StewartLiving in virtual isolation years after the revelation of a painful family secret, Constance is terrorized by a belligerent silk factory owner and fights back in ways outside the confines of early-20th-century women.
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Wednesday, February 15 @ 10:00 am The Light Between Oceans : A Novel by M. L StedmanAfter moving with his wife to an isolated Australian lighthouse where they suffer miscarriages and a stillbirth, Tom allows his wife to claim an infant that has washed up on the shore, a decision with devastating consequences.
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Wednesday, March 15 @ 10:00 am
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Wednesday, April 19 @ 10:00 am Light in August by William FaulknerSeveral stories are woven together to show man's inner alienation from the society about him.
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Wednesday, May 17 @ 10:00 am a cranky and short-tempered exterior while clashing with new neighbors, a boisterous family whose chattiness and habits lead to unexpected friendship.
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Wednesday, June 21 @ 10:00 am These three short works show Austen experimenting with a variety of different literary styles, from melodrama to satire, and exploring a range of social classes and settings. The early epistolary novel "Lady Susan" depicts an unscrupulous coquette, toying with the affections of several men. In contrast, "The Watsons" is a delightful fragment, whose spirited heroine - Emma - finds her marriage opportunities limited by poverty and pride. Meanwhile "Sanditon", set in a seaside resort, offers a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and spectators, treated by Austen with both amusement and scepticism.
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Wednesday, July 19 @ 10:00 am All The Light We Cannot See : A Novel by Anthony DoerrA blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with their respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast. It won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
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Wednesday, August 16 @ 10:00 am
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Wednesday, September 20 @ 10:00 am Lolita by Vladīmir Vladimirovich NabokovA novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him.
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Wednesday, October 18 @ 10:00 am The Wright Brothers by David G McCulloughChronicles the story-behind-the-story about the Wright brothers, sharing insights into the disadvantages that challenged their lives and their mechanical ingenuity.
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Wednesday, November 15 @ 10:00 am Circling the Sun : A Novel by Paula McLainRaised by her father and the Kipsigis tribe in 1920s Kenya, Beryl endures painful losses before entering a passionate love triangle and discovering her unconventional true calling.
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Wednesday, December 20 @ 10:00 am
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Evening Book Discussion - 1st Tuesday of the month: 7:30 - 9:00pm
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Tuesday, January 3 @ 7:30 pm The Light Between Oceans : A Novelby M. L StedmanAfter moving with his wife to an isolated Australian lighthouse where they suffer miscarriages and a stillbirth, Tom allows his wife to claim an infant that has washed up on the shore, a decision with devastating consequences.
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Tuesday, February 7 @ 7:30 pm Between the World and Meby Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe author presents a history of racial discrimination in the United States and a narrative of his own personal experiences of contemporary race relations, offering possible resolutions for the future
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Tuesday, March 7 @ 7:30 pm Wuthering Heightsby Emily BronteA powerful gothic tale of passion, romance and unrequited love where the doomed love of Catherine and Heathcliff is played out in a capricious landscape. With its bold emotions, strident language, agonising deaths and the psychological self-torture, the tortured lovers suffer a fate that consigns them to an eternity of pain.
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Tuesday, April 4 @ 7:30 pm Brunelleschi's Dome : How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architectureby Ross KingDescribes how a fifteenth-century goldsmith and clockmaker, Filippo Brunelleschi, came up with a unique design for the dome to crown Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, in a dramatic study set against the turbulent backdrop of Renaissance Italy.
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Tuesday, May 2 @ 7:30 pm The Oregon Trail : A New American Journeyby Rinker BuckRecounts the author's two-thousand-mile trip on the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon with a team of mules, and discusses the rich history of the trail, the people who made the migration, and its significance to the United States.
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Tuesday, June 6 @ 7:30 pm Nightby Elie WieselThe narrative of a boy who lived through Auschwitz and Buchenwald provides a short and terrible indictment of modern humanity.
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Tuesday, July 11 @ 7:30 pm Alexander Hamilton (Chapters 1 -20)by Ron ChernowThe personal life of Alexander Hamilton, an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who rose to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States, is captured in a definitive biography by the National Book Award-winning author of The House of Morgan.
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Tuesday, August 1 @ 7:30 pm Girl Waits With Gunby Amy StewartLiving in virtual isolation years after the revelation of a painful family secret, Constance Kopp is terrorized by a belligerent silk factory owner and fights back in ways outside the norm for early twentieth-century women.
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Tuesday, September 5 @ 7:30 pm Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walkby Ben FountainAsked to be part of the Dallas Cowboys' Halftime Show, Specialist William Billy Lynn, one of the eight surviving men of the Bravo Squad, finds his life forever changed by this all-American event that causes him to better understand difficult truths about himself and those around him.
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Tuesday, October 3 @ 7:30 pm A Canticle for Leibowitzby Walter M. MillerFirst published in 1959 to critical acclaim and enduring popularity, a new edition of the landmark novel follows the struggle of the Monks of the Order of Saint Leibowitz to preserve the remnants of civilization after a nuclear war and to protect them against tyranny.
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Tuesday, November 7 @ 7:30 pm A Man Called Ove : A Novelby Fredrik BackmanA curmudgeon hides a terrible personal loss beneath a cranky and short-tempered exterior while clashing with new neighbors, a boisterous family whose chattiness and habits lead to unexpected friendship.
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Tuesday, December 5 @ 7:30 pm
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