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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