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Book Discussion Groups 2015
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Read the book and come for a lively discussion. Copies 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 21, 2015 @ 10:00 am Orphan Train by Christina Baker KlineClose to aging out of the foster care system, Molly Ayer takes a position helping an elderly woman named Vivian and discovers that they are more alike than different as she helps Vivian solve a mystery from her past.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015 @ 10:00 am
Sons and Lovers by D. H. LawrenceOriginally published in 1913, Sons and Lovers represents an exploration of Nottinghamshire's mining community. It was D. H. Lawrence's first major novel.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015 @ 10:00 am* No Country by Kalyan RayA tale spanning two centuries and three continents traces the experiences of a young freedom fighter in mid-19th-century Dublin whose best friend and daughter escape the potato famine by moving to America before their respective descendants move toward a fateful convergence.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015 @ 10:00 am Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media firestorm that changes her life forever.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 @ 10:00 am Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevWhen Arkady Petrovich returns home from college, his father finds his naive son fallen under the powerful influence of the ardent young Bazarov, a self-proclaimed nihilist
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015 @ 10:00 am
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015 @ 10:00 am The Leftovers by Tom PerrottaWhen a bizarre phenomenon causes the cataclysmic disappearances of numerous people all over the world, Kevin Garvey, the new mayor of a once-comfortable suburban community, struggles to help his neighbors heal while enduring the fanatical religious conversions of his wife and son.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015 @ 10:00 am The Lowland : a novel by Jhumpa LahiriFrequently mistaken for one another in spite of very different natures, brothers Subhash and Udayan Mitra pursue respective lives in rebellion-torn 1960s Calcutta until a shattering tragedy compels Subhash to return to India, where he endeavors to heal family wounds. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Unaccustomed Earth.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2015 @ 10:00 am Just Kids by Patti SmithAn artist and musician recounts her romance, lifetime friendship and shared love of art with Robert Mapplethorpe, in an illustrated memoir that includes a colorful cast of characters, including Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, William Burroughs and more.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015 @ 10:00 am Therese Raquin by Emile ZolaWhen Therese Raquin is forced to marry the sickly Camille, she sees a bare life stretching out before her, leading every evening to the same cold bed and every morning to the same empty day. Escape comes in the form of her husband's friend, Laurent, and Therese throws herself headlong into an affair.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015 @ 10:00 am * Doubt : a Parable by John Patrick ShanleySet in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, a nun is faced with uncertainty as she has grave concerns about a male colleague *Will also include a movie screening of DOUBT
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015 @ 10:00 am TransAtlantic : a Novel by Colum McCannA tale spanning 150 years and two continents reimagines the peace efforts of democracy champion Frederick Douglass, Senator George Mitchell and World War I airmen John Alcock and Teddy Brown through the experiences of four generations of women from a matriarchal clan. By the National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin.
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Evening Book Discussion 1st Tuesday of the month - 7:30 - 9:00pm
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015 @ 7:30 pm Stonerby John WilliamsWilliam Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to a university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life. As the years pass, Stoner encounters a series of disappointments: marriage into a "proper" family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 @ 7:30 pm Just Kidsby Patti SmithAn artist and musician recounts her romance, lifetime friendship and shared love of art with Robert Mapplethorpe, in an illustrated memoir that includes a colorful cast of characters, including Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, William Burroughs and more.
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015 @ 7:30 pm Orphan Trainby Christina Baker KlineClose to aging out of the foster care system, Molly Ayer takes a position helping an elderly woman named Vivian and discovers that they are more alike than different as she helps Vivian solve a mystery from her past.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2015 @ 7:30 pm No Countryby Kalyan RayA tale spanning two centuries and three continents traces the experiences of a young freedom fighter in mid-19th-century Dublin whose best friend and daughter escape the potato famine by moving to America before their respective descendants move toward a fateful convergence.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015 @ 7:30 pm
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015 @ 7:30 pm A Moveable Feast : the restored editionby Ernest HemingwayA restored edition of the posthumously published book eliminates changes that were made to the manuscript before its original 1964 release, in a volume that draws on Hemingway's personal papers, features sketches of his experiences in Paris with his son and first wife, and includes irreverent portraits of such contemporaries as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Maddox Ford.
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Tuesday, July 7, 2015 @ 7:30 pm Sailing Alone Around The Room : new and selected poemsby Billy CollinsA new collection of poems by the popular and critically acclaimed poet reveals the witty, emotional, and direct verse of the man John Updike celebrated as the author of poems that are "limpid, gently and consistently startling."
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015 @ 7:30 pm Thinking, Fast and Slowby Daniel KahnemanA Nobel Prize-winning psychologist draws on years of research to introduce his "machinery of the mind" model on human decision making to reveal the faults and capabilities of intuitive versus logical thinking, providing insights into such topics as optimism, the unpredictability of happiness and the psychological pitfalls of risk-taking.
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Tuesday, September 1, 2015 @ 7:30 pm River of Doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journeyby Candice MillardA stirring narrative of a real-life adventure chronicles the 1914 expedition of Theodore Roosevelt into the unexplored heart of the Amazon basin to explore and map the little-known region surrounding a tributary called the River of Doubt, detailing the dangerous conditions they faced--white-water rapids, starvation, illness, jungle menaces, and Indian attacks--to accomplish their goal.
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Tuesday, October 6, 2015 @ 7:30 pm Edgar Allan Poe : the Dover Readerby Edgar Allan Poe"The 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 that features his only complete novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Short stories include "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Purloined Letter," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and more than a dozen others. In addition to a few selections of Poe's nonfiction writing, the compilation also offers "The Conqueror Worm," "Annabel Lee," "The Raven," and many other memorable poems"
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Tuesday, November 3, 2015 @ 7:30 pm Fathers and Sonsby Ivan Sergeevich TurgenevWhen Arkady Petrovich returns home from college, his father finds his naive son fallen under the powerful influence of the ardent young Bazarov, a self-proclaimed nihilist
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015 @ 7:30 pm
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