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Join us for a lively discussion every month. Meetings are held the 4th Tuesday of each Month at 7:00PM. Books are available one month before the discussion at the Patron Services Desk, or on one of our loanable Kindles. All are welcome.
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Tuesday, January 22nd @ 7:00 PM
After Cora, a pre-Civil War Georgia slave, escapes with another slave, Caesar, they seek the help of the Underground Railroad as they flee from state to state and try to evade a slave catcher, Ridgeway, who is determined to return them to the South
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Tuesday, February 26th @ 7:00 PM
In early 1900s Korea, prized daughter Sunja finds herself pregnant and alone, bringing shame on her family until a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan, in the saga of one family bound together as their faith and identity are called into question. Reading-group guide available. By a national best-selling author.
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Tuesday, March 26th @ 7:00 PM
Documents the story of the Gilded Age mansion Biltmore, tracing George Vanderbilt's construction of his European-style estate and the efforts of his bride, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser, to become its protector in the face of changing fortunes and times
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Tuesday, April 23rd @ 7:00 PM The 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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Tuesday, May 28th @ 7:00 PM Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past
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Lemont Public Library District 50 E Wend St Lemont, Illinois 60439 (630) 257-6541 ext. 2www.lemontlibrary.org |
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