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Downtown Bookies Book Club
Second Tuesday of each month, 7 - 8 p.m.
Gates Conference Room - Level 5
Fiction and nonfiction discussion. Everyone welcome, no registration necessary.

2010
DATE TITLE AUTHOR
January 12 The Last Lecture Randy Pausch
February 9 Indignation Philip Roth
March 9 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
April 13 Running With the Bulls: My Years With the Hemingways Valerie Hemingway
May 11 My Ántonia Willa Cather
June 8 The Soloist Steve Lopez
July 13 Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi
August 10 The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
September 14 Run Anne Patchett
October 12 My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
November 9 Meeting To Discuss Next Year's Titles  
December 14 Possession A.S. Byatt

 

Burnham Hoyt Room's Thursday Afternoon Book Group
Second Thursday of each month, 1 - 2:30 p.m.
PLEASE NOTE: Meeting room location within the Central Library varies;
please call 720-865-1312 or 720-865-1207 for more information
.
Fiction and nonfiction in book and audio formats. Everyone welcome, no registration necessary.

2010
DATE TITLE AUTHOR
January 14 The Four Agreements Miguel Ruiz
February 11 Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
March 11 The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield
April 8 The Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver
May 13 Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson
June 10 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez
July 8 The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Kim Edwards
August 12 The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court Jeffrey Toobin
September 9 Tallgrass Sandra Dallas
October 14 The Zookeeper’s Wife Diane Ackerman
November 18
(3rd Thursday)
Lady Chatterley’s Lover D. H. Lawrence
December 9
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd Jim Fergus

 

Saturday Morning Book Club
Meets every other month on the second Saturday of the month, 10 a.m.
*PLEASE NOTE: The Bear Valley Library will be closing for six months during 2010. During this closure the book club will be meeting elsewhere. Please contact the library at (720) 865-0975 for more information.

2010
DATE TITLE AUTHOR
January 9 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
March 13 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
*May 8 People of the Book Geraldine Brooks
*July 10 My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult
*September 11 Orange Mint & Honey Carleen Brice
November 13 Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout

 

Stranger Than Fiction Book Club
Join us on the second Saturday of the month (alternating with the Saturday Morning Book Club), 10 a.m.
*PLEASE NOTE: This book club will not be meeting during the library closure.

2010
DATE TITLE AUTHOR
February 13 Say You’re One of Them Uwem Akpan
October 9 The Lost City of Z David Grann
December 11 Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris

 

Pageturners Book Club
Meets the Third Saturday of the month at 12 noon
Ask a librarian for a copy of this month’s selection.

2010
DATE TITLE AUTHOR
January 16 Tell Me Where It Hurts Nick Trout
February 20 In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez
March 20 March Geraldine Brooks
April 17 Little Bee Chris Cleave
May 15 Loving Frank Nancy Horan
June 19 The Professor and the Madman Simon Winchester
July 17 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer
August 21 People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks
September 18 My Stroke of Insight Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.

 

Pauline Robinson Book Club
Fourth Saturday of each month, 12 noon - 1:30 p.m. Meets at the Park Hill Branch Library.
Come and join us for an informal book discussion and light refreshments. Book selections are chosen by the group.

2010
DATE TITLE AUTHOR
February 27 Tea Time for the Traditionally Built Alexander McCall Smith

 

Monday Evening Book Club
Fourth Monday of each month, 6:45 - 8 p.m. except where noted.

2010
DATE TITLE AUTHOR
January 25 Sick Puppy Carl Hiaasen
February 22 Case Histories Kate Atkinson
March 22 Manhunt: The Twelve Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer James L. Swanson
April 26 The Story of Edgar Sawtelle David Wroblewski
May 24
Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

Books ‘N Brown Bag Book Club
First Friday of each month, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. except where noted.

2010
DATE TITLE AUTHOR
January 8 The Caliph’s House: A Year in Casablanca (nonfiction) Tahir Shah
February 5 The White Tiger Aravind Adiga
March 5 Suite Française Irène Némirovsky
April 9
(library closed April 2)
The Gathering Anne Enright
May 7 The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music Steve Lopez

 

Latitudes Book Club
Third Sunday of each month, 3 p.m., except where noted.

2010
DATE TITLE
January 24
(4th Sunday)
Celebrate the new year with a notable book for adults! Get your copy of selected titles at the reference desk. Share with the group or just come to learn about titles you'll want to read.
February 21 Looking for new titles for the family including Newbery, Caldecott and Coretta Scott King award winners? Get your copy of our selected titles at the reference desk. Share with the group or just come to learn about titles you'll want to read.
March 21 Spring into a National Book Critics Circle award winner! Get your copy of our selected titles at the reference desk. Share with the group or just come to learn about titles you'll want to read.
April 18 Short changed after taxes? Pay yourself first and read a Pulitzer Prize winner! Get your copy of our selected titles at the reference desk. Share with the group or just come to learn about titles you'll want to read.

 

Colorado Author Series
Authors will discuss their books, the writing process, answer questions and will have books available to sell and sign.

2010
DATE AUTHOR
January 23 Jeanne Stein
February 6 Leslee Breene
February 20 Carleen Brice
February 27 Mario Acevedo
March 6 Jason Sheehan
March 20 Sandi Ault
April 24 Mark Obmascik
Visit the Colorado Author Series page for more information.

 

Peep Your Book!

2010
DATE TITLE
March 27-April 8 and April 10 Peeps and Prejudice? Harry Peeper? War and Peeps? If you have a favorite book or movie, and also enjoy those marshmallow Peeps that surface in grocery stores around this time of the year, put the two together and enter our Peep Your Book (or Movie) Contest! Create a shoebox-sized diorama of a scene from your favorite book or movie using marshmallow Peeps as the characters. Come join the fun! It’s going to be Peeptastic!
Submit your creation between March 27 and April 8. Viewing and judging on April 10.

 

Daytime Book Club
Second and fourth Tuesday of each month, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

January – July 2010
DATE TITLE AUTHOR
January 26

A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Pages 191-283

Carl Bernstein
February 9 A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Pages 284-375
 
February 23

A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Pages 376-483

 
March 9 A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Pages 484-554
 
March 23

When the Emperor Was Divine
Pages 3-144

Julie Otsuka
April 13 The Post-American World
Pages 1-86
Fareed Zakaria
April 27 The Post-American World
Pages 87-166
 
May 11 The Post-American World
Pages 167-259
 
May 25 No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : The Home Front in World War II
Pages 13-136
Doris Kearns Goodwin
June 8 No Ordinary Time
Pages 137-269
 
June 22 No Ordinary Time
Pages 270-400
 
July 13 No Ordinary Time
Pages 401-533
 
July 27 No Ordinary Time
Pages 534-636
 

 

 

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