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Book Clubs for Adults


Atkinson Library | 1960 W. Atkinson Ave., 286-3068

As announced.

Bay View Library | 2566 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., 286-3019
First and third Thursdays, 1 p.m. | Great Books Series
East Library | 1910 E. North Ave.,  286-3058
Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

Nov. 18
Dec. 16

Jan. 20 2009
Feb. 17
Mar. 17
Apr. 21
May 19
Jun. 16
Jul. 21
Aug. 18
Sep. 15
Oct. 20
Nov. 17
Dec. 15


The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
Birdman of Alcatraz by Robert Stroud
The Film Club by David Gilmour
11 Days in December by Stanley Weintraub
Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean
All This Hell by Evelyn Monahan
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Tippecanoe Library | 3912 S. Howell Ave., 286-3085
Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
New members welcome.

Dec.
Jan. 14, 2009


Feb. 11
Mar. 11
Apr. 8
May 13
Jun. 10
Jul. 8
Aug. 12
Sep. 9
Oct. 14

Nov. 11
Dec.

No Meeting
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Schaffer & Annie Barrows
The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Turk and My Mother by Mary Helen Stefaniak
Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
No Meeting

Zablocki Library | 3501 W. Oklahoma Ave., 286-3055
Thursdays, 11 a.m.

Nov. 20

Ghostwalk: A Novel by Rebecca Stott

Central Library Book Discussion | Central Library, 814 W. Wisconsin Ave., 286-3000
Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m.
Librarians moderate lively book discussions each month in the comfortable surroundings of the Central Library Richard E. & Lucile Krug Rare Books Room. The books will be a starting point for exchanging ideas on themes, events and characters; reading the book in advance is NOT required.
Dec. 9
Jan. 13, 2009
Feb. 10
Mar. 10
Apr. 14
May 12
June 9
July 14
Aug. 11

When you are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Brother I'm Dying by Edwidge Danicat
Anything by Twain - Read anything by Mark Twain to discuss
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
Maytrees by Annie Dillard
God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison
Martin Luther King Library | 310 W. Locust St., 286-3098
Mondays
Read the book and discuss it with other neighboorhood readers while you enjoy some refreshments!
Dec. 8
1:30-2:30 p.m. &
6:30-7:30 p.m.


The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

 
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