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Book Discussion Groups 2016
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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 20, 2016 @ 10:00 am The Martian : a novel by Andy WeirStranded on Mars by a duststorm that compromised his space suit and forced his crew to leave him behind, astronaut Mark Watney struggles to survive in spite of minimal supplies and environmental challenges that test his ingenuity.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016 @ 10:00 am Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatima MernissiRelates the story of a woman born in a harem in Morocco, growing up with wise, funny, individualistic women, and creating a fantasy world from sheer imagination because the outside world was inaccessible.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016 @ 10:00 am Catch-22 by Joseph HellerJoseph Heller's classic WWII black comedy that follows American bomber pilot Yossarian on his harrowing quest for the final mission that will free him from his military obligation.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016 @ 10:00 am The Shooting Party by Anton Pavlovich ChekhovA Russian country magistrate recounts the murder of the young mistress of a local count, during a shooting party the count had organized for his guests, in an all-new translation of the playwright's only novel.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016 @ 10:00 am People of the Book : a novel by Geraldine BrooksOffered a coveted job to analyze and conserve a priceless Sarajevo Haggadah, Australian rare-book expert Hanna Heath discovers a series of tiny artifacts in the volume's ancient binding that reveal its historically significant origins. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March.
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Wednesday, June 15, 2016 @ 10:00 am H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldAn award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016 @ 10:00 am Song of Solomon by Toni MorrisonMacon Dead, Jr., called "Milkman," the son of the wealthiest African American in town, moves from childhood into early manhood, searching, among the disparate, mysterious members of his family, for his life and reality. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2016 @ 10:00 am The Return of the Native by Thomas HardyThomas Hardy's classic novel about the stormy marriage between idealist Clym Yeobright and the discontented Eustacia Vye, who dreams of escaping the provincial English countryside.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016 @ 10:00 am The Swerve : How the World Became Modern by Stephen GreenblattA humanities professor describes the impact had by the translation of the last remaining manuscript of On the Nature of Things by Roman philosopher Lucretius, which fueled the Renaissance and inspired artists, great thinkers and scientists.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016 @ 10:00 am Lila by Marilynne RobinsonTriggering a romance and debate by seeking shelter in a church and becoming a minister's wife, homeless Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband's gentle Christian worldview. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016 @ 10:00 am The Homesman by Glendon SwarthoutFour women in the isolated frontier territory go mad, and it is up to the unlikely combination of homesteader Mary Bee Cuddy and ne'er-do-well Briggs to escort them east to safety.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2016 @ 10:00 am Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset MaughamThe bitter, witty novel about the business of writing and London literary society between the two World Wars focuses on the lives of a famous writer and his two contrasting wives.
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Evening Book Discussion - 1st Tuesday of the month: 7:30 - 9:00pm
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Tuesday, January 5, 2016 @ 7:30 pm Tales of a Harem Girlhoodby Fatima MernissiRelates the story of a woman born in a harem in Morocco, growing up with wise, funny, individualistic women, and creating a fantasy world from sheer imagination because the outside world was inaccessible.
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Tuesday, February 2, 2016 @ 7:30 pm
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016 @ 7:30 pm Doubt : a parableby John Patrick ShanleyIn a drama set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, a nun is faced with uncertainty as she has grave concerns for a male colleague.
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016 @ 7:30 pm Writings from the New Yorker : 1927-1976by E. B. WhiteCollects essays by the author that have appeared in the famous magazine, dealing with such issues as nature, Thoreau, liberty, Maine, body and mind, science, business, and academic life.
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Tuesday, May 3, 2016 @ 7:30 pm Redeploymentby Phil KlayA collection of short stories by a former Marine captain and Iraq veteran focuses on the complexities of life for soldiers on the front lines and after, exploring themes ranging from brutality and faith to guilt and survival in such stories as "After Action Report" and "Money as Weapons System."
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Tuesday, June 7, 2016 @ 7:30 pm The Shooting Partyby Anton Pavlovich ChekhovA Russian country magistrate recounts the murder of the young mistress of a local count, during a shooting party the count had organized for his guests, in an all-new translation of the playwright's only novel.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2016 @ 7:30 pm
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016 @ 7:30 pm Barchester Towersby Anthony TrollopeAs the Bishop of Barchster lies dying, a battle breaks out over who will take power, involving the zealous reformer Dr. Proudie, his fiendish wife and the unctuous schemer Obadiah Slope, the Archdeacon Grantly, and his father-in-law, Mr. Harding.
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016 @ 7:30 pm H is for Hawkby Helen MacdonaldAn award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2016 @ 7:30 pm The Martian : a novelby Andy WeirStranded on Mars by a duststorm that compromised his space suit and forced his crew to leave him behind, astronaut Mark Watney struggles to survive in spite of minimal supplies and environmental challenges that test his ingenuity.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016 @ 7:30 pm The Princeby Niccolò MachiavelliLaid out in this book is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Machiavelli's sixteenth-century masterpiece has become essential reading for every student of government, and is the ultimate book on power politics.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2016 @ 7:30 pm All the Light We Cannot See : a novelby 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.
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