DPL Book Clubs
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| 2009 | ||
| DATE | TITLE | AUTHOR |
| January 13 | The Assistant | Bernard Malamud |
| February 10 | On Chesil Beach | Ian McEwan |
| March 10 | Comparison of two works: Heart of Darkness and Things Fall Apart |
Joseph Conrad Chinua Achebe |
| April 14 | Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson |
| May 12 | Falling Man | Don DeLillo |
| June 9 | All the King's Men | Robert Penn Warren |
| July 14 | If Beale Street Could Talk | James Baldwin |
| August 11 | People of the Book |
Geraldine Brooks |
| September 8 | The Education of Little Tree | Forrest Carter |
| October 13 | Candide |
Voltaire |
| November 10 | Meeting to discuss next year's titles | |
| December 8 | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Shaffer |
Burnham Hoyt Room's Thursday Afternoon Book Group
Second Thursday of each month, 1 - 2:30 p.m.
Rockwell Meeting Room, Level 4
Fiction and nonfiction in book and audio formats.
| 2009 | ||
| DATE | TITLE | AUTHOR |
| January 8 | Prime Cut | Diane Mott Davidson |
| February 12 | Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen |
| March 12 | A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini |
| April 9 | Unaccustomed Earth | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| May 14 | Possession | A.S. Byatt |
| June 11 | The Diary of Mattie Spenser | Sandra Dallas |
| July 9 | A Great Deliverance | Elizabeth George |
| August 13 | A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson |
| September 10 | Baudolino | Umberto Eco |
| October 8 | This Land is Their Land | Barbara Ehrenreich |
| November 12 | The Other Boleyn Girl | Philippa Gregory |
| December 10 | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier |
Bear Valley
Stranger Than Fiction Book Club
Last Wednesday of each month, 6:30 p.m.
| 2009 | ||
| DATE | TITLE | AUTHOR |
| January 28 | Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation | Joseph J. Ellis |
| March 25 | The Professor and The Madman | Simon Winchester |
| April 29 | Washington's Crossing | David Hackett Fischer |
| May 27 | The Zookeeper's Wife | Diane Ackerman |
| June 24 | Into the Wild | Jon Krakauer |
| July 29 | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | John Berendt |
| August 26 | The Devil in the White City | Erik Larson |
| September 30 | The Billionaire's Vinegar | Benjamin Wallace |
| October 28 | Reading Lolita in Tehran | Azar Nafisi |
| November 25 | Not for Ourselves Alone | Geoffrey C. Ward |
| December 30 | Team of Rivals | Doris Kearns Goodwin |
Bear Valley Mystery Book Club
Fourth Thursday of each month, 6:30 - 8 p.m.
Fiction book discussion.
| 2009 | ||
| DATE | TITLE | AUTHOR |
| January 22 | Justice Denied | J. A. Jance |
| February 26 | The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher (nonfiction) | Kate Summerscale |
| March 26 | Field of Blood | Denise Mina |
| April 23 | The Cold Dish | Craig Johnson |
| May 28 | Blue Heaven | C. J. Box |
| June 25 | A Real Basket Case | Beth Groundwater – Come Meet the Author Night |
| July 23 | Dark of the Moon | John Sandford |
| August 27 | A Beautiful Blue Death | Charles Finch |
| September 24 | The Color of Law | Mark Gimenez |
| October 22 | The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson |
| November 19 (3rd Thursday) |
Reader’s Choice – Come tell us about that GREAT mystery book you read. |
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| December 17 (3rd Thursday) |
The Book of Murder Annual book exchange. Bring a gift-wrapped used book to give away. |
Guillermo Martínez |
Bear Valley Saturday Morning Book Club
Meets on a Saturday every other month, 10 a.m.
Come and join us for an informal book discussion and coffee every other month. The books are chosen by the group.
| 2009 | ||
| DATE | TITLE | AUTHOR |
| January 10 | Out Stealing Horses | Per Petterson |
| March 14 | The Abortionist's Daughter | Elisabeth Hyde |
| May 9 | The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton |
| July 11 | The Gathering | Anne Enright |
| September 12 | My Sister's Keeper | Jodi Picoult |
| November 14 | Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson |
Ross-University Hills Branch Library
University Hills Evening Book Club
Fourth Monday of each month, 6:45 - 8 p.m. except where noted.
| 2009 | ||
| DATE | TITLE | AUTHOR |
| January 26 | Mudbound: A Novel | Hillary Jordan |
| February 23 | The Worst Hard Time | Timothy Egan |
| March 23 | The Book Thief | Markus Zusak |
| April 27 | Q & A | Vikas Swarup |
| May 18 (3rd Monday) |
The Moonstone | Wilkie Collins |
| June 22 | Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson |
| July 27 | Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen |
University Hills Books 'n' Brown Bag Book Club
First Friday of each month, 12:30 - 2 p.m.
| 2009 | ||
| DATE | TITLE | AUTHOR |
| January 9 (2nd Friday) |
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea | Thomas Cahill |
| February 6 | The Transit of Venus | Shirley Hazzard |
| March 6 | Mountains Beyond Mountains | Tracy Kidder |
| April 3 | Crashing Through | Robert Kurson |
| May 1 | Dissolution | C.J. Sansom |
| June 5 | Supreme Courtship | Christopher Buckley |
| July 10 (2nd Friday) |
Blowing My Cover | Lindsay Moran |
Virginia Village Branch Library
Daytime Book Club
Second and fourth Tuesday of each month, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
| June 2009 – January 2010 | ||
| DATE | TITLE | AUTHOR |
| June 23 | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed |
Jared Diamond |
| July 14 | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Pages 136-276 |
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| July 28 | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed |
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| August 11 | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Pages 417-525 |
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| August 25 | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster |
Jon Krakauer |
| September 8 | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster Pages 103-195 |
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| September 22 | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster Pages 199-288 |
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| October 13 | The Principled Politician: The Ralph Carr Story Pages 1-113 |
Adam Schrager |
| October 27 | The Principled Politician: The Ralph Carr Story Pages 114 – 218 |
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| November 10 | The Principled Politician: The Ralph Carr Story Pages 219-332 |
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| November 24 | A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton Pages 3-87 |
Carl Bernstein |
| December 8 | A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton Pages 88-209 |
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| December 22 | A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton Pages 210-347 |
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| January 12, 2010 | A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton Pages 348-483 |
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| January 26, 2010 | A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton Pages 484-554 |
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We Love a Mystery Book Discussion Group
Third Wednesday of each month, 6:30 p.m.
On movie night meeting begins at 6 p.m.
| 2009 | ||
| DATE | TITLE | AUTHOR |
| February 18 | Immoral | Brian Freeman |
| March 18 | Company Man | Joseph Finder |
| April 15 | Dark Harbor | Stuart Woods |
| May 20 | The Brass Verdict | Michael Connelly |
| June 17 | Blue Heaven | C.J. Box |
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