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Book Discussion Groups
Library staff will assist any participant in obtaining books and/or videos for the discussion groups. Sign up at the Fiction, Movies and Music Desk at the Library, or call 328-2305.
ARMCHAIR TRAVELERS BOOK GROUP
TUESDAYS 11:00 A.M.
MEETING ROOM A
Pick up a best-selling book that will take you to a different place or time. You are welcome to bring your lunch to this group.
June 1, 2010
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
July 6, 2010
The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
August 3, 2010
The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy
September 7, 2010
Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles
October 5, 2010
In the Heart of the Canyon by Elisabeth Hyde
November 2, 2010
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
December 7, 2010
Leaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry
January 4, 2011
My Life in France by Julia Child
February 1, 2011
Molokai by Alan Brennert
March 1, 2011
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
April 5, 2011
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
May 3, 2011
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
June 7, 2011
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
July 5, 2011
House at Riverton by Kate Morton
August 2, 2011
My Abandonment by Peter Rock
LITERATURE INTO FILM
TUESDAYS
1:30 P.M.
MEETING ROOM B
Join us to read the book and/or watch the video of classic works of literature. Members meet the last Tuesday of every month. Beverages are provided and members take turns bringing treats.
February 23, 2010
Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
March 30, 2010
The Book of Eleanor: A Novel by Pamela Kaufman
April 27, 2010
Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden
May 25, 2010
The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
June 29, 2010
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
July 27, 2010
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
August 31, 2010
Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
September 28, 2010
Enemies, A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
October 26, 2010
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
November 30, 2010
The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
MYSTERY READERS BOOK CLUB
MONDAYS 1:00 P.M.
SEPTEMBER - MAY
MEETING ROOM A
Read different titles by the same mystery author and share at the meeting. Members meet the fourth Monday of every month in Meeting Room A.
February 22, 2010
Dick Francis horseracing mysteries
March 22, 2010
MN authors - Suspense, police
( K J Erickson, Elizabeth Gunn, David Housewright, William Kent Krueger, John Sandford, P J Tracy)
April 26, 2010
New mystery writers
See New Additions or Awards [Best First Mystery] at
http://www.stopyourekillingme.com
May 24, 2010
Reader's choice
NIGHT OWL BOOK CLUB
TUESDAYS 7:00 P.M.
MEETING ROOM A
This monthly book group will be reading page turning books you just can't put down. Members meet the third Tuesday of the month.
June 15, 2010
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
July 20, 2010
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
August 17, 2010
The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry
September 21, 2010
The Color of Water by James McBride
October 19, 2010
The Piano Teacher by Janice Lee
November 16, 2010
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
December 21, 2010
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
January 18, 2011
The Emancipator's Wife by Barbara Hambly
February 15, 2011
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
March 15, 2011
The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang
April 19, 2011
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
May 17, 2011
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
June 21, 2011
Lottery by Patricia Wood
July 19 , 2011
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
PLAIN READERS BOOK GROUP
TUESDAYS
12:00 NOON
MEETING ROOM A
Join us to read books set in the Midwest or by Midwestern authors. You are welcome to bring your lunch to this group. Members meet on the third Tuesday of the month in Meeting Room A.
March 16, 2010
Halfway Home by Mary Logue
April 20, 2010
The Dog Says How by Kevin Kling
May 18 , 2010
The Romanov Bride by Robert Alexander
June 15 , 2010
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 by Daniel Brown
July 20 , 2010
The Women by T.C. Boyle
August 17 , 2010
Fiction on a Stick by Daniel Slager
September 21 , 2010
A Romantic Education by Patricia Hampl
October 19 , 2010
The Silence of the Loons by the Minnesota Crime Wave
November 16 , 2010
The Girls from Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow
December 21, 2010
So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger
January 18 , 2011
Home on the Road by Catherine Watson
February 15, 2011
Undiscovered Country by Lin Enger
Last updated: 5/24/10