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ADULT BOOK GROUP
The Adult Book Group meets on the second Tuesday on the month, at 7pm, in the Children's Library. All are welcome - join the discussion, bring book suggestions, or just come to listen.
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2013 Book Selections |
| March 12 |
Freishner, Jennifer |
Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: the Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave |
| April 9 |
Proulx, Annie |
Bird Cloud: a Memoir |
| May 14 |
Mawer, Simon |
The Glass Room |
| June 11 |
Beston, Henry |
The Outermost House: a ear of LIfe on the Great Beach of Cape Cod |
| July 9 |
Unsworth, Barry |
Morality Play |
| August 13 |
Murdoch, Iris |
The Black Prince |
| September 10 |
Norman, Howard |
What is Left the Daughter |
| October 8 |
Manel, Hilary |
Wolf Hall |
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2012 Book Selections |
| January 10, 2012 |
Kurlansky, Mark |
Cod : a biography of the fish that changed the world |
| February 21 |
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan |
Infidel |
| March 13 |
Stein, Garth |
The Art of Racing in the Rain |
| April 10 |
Cleave, Chris |
Little Bee |
| May 8 |
Zusak, Markus |
The Book Thief |
| June 12 |
Barbery, Muriel |
The Elegance of the Hedgehog |
| July 10 |
Hoffman, Alice |
The Red Garden |
| August 14 |
Defoe, Daniel |
Robinson Crusoe |
| September 11 |
Brooks, Geraldine |
Caleb's Crossing |
| October 9 |
Wilson, Edward. O. |
Anthill |
| November 13 |
Simonson, Helen |
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand |
| December 11 |
Atkinson, Kate |
Case Histories |
| January 8 |
Stewart, Rory |
The Places in Between |
| February 12 |
Collins, Wilkie |
The Woman in White |
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2011 Book Selections |
| January 11, 2011 |
Coelho, Paolo |
The Alchemist |
| February 8 |
Buck, Pearl |
The Good Earth |
| March 8 |
Upton, Sinclair |
The Jungle |
| April 12 |
Winchester, Simon |
The Professor and the Madman |
| May 10 |
Gruen, Sara |
Ape House |
| June 14 |
Adamson, Gil |
The Outlander |
| July 12 |
Ogawa, Yoko |
The Housekeeper and the Professor |
| August 9 |
Tolbin, Colm |
Brooklyn |
| September 13 |
Cooke, Alistair |
Alistair Cooke's America |
| October 11 |
Greene, Amy |
Bloodroot |
| November 8 |
Greene, Amy & Dubus, Andre III |
Bloodroot & Townie |
| December 13 |
See, Lisa |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
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2010 Book Selections |
January 12 |
Strout, Elizabeth |
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February 9 |
Price, Reynolds |
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March 9 |
Follett, Ken |
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April 13 |
Follett, Ken |
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| May 11 |
Baxter, Charles |
Soul Thief |
| June 8 |
Shaffer, Mary Ann |
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| July 13 |
Allende, Isabel |
Portrait in Sepia |
| August 10 |
Salinger, J.D. |
Catcher in the Rye & Franny and Zooey |
| September 14 |
Thackeray, William |
Vanity Fair |
| October 12 |
Barrie, James M. |
Peter Pan |
| Choose 1 or 2 |
Burnett, Frances H. |
The Secret Garden |
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Carroll, Lewis |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
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Grahame, Kenneth |
The Wind in the Willows |
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Kipling, Rudyard |
Just So Stories |
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Montgomery, Lucy M. |
Anne of Green Gables |
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Milne, A. A. |
Winnie-the-Pooh |
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Sewell, Anna |
Black Beauty |
| November 9 |
Lansing, Alfred |
Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyage |
| December 14 |
Deaver, Jeffrey |
The Bone Collector |
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Oleksiw, Susan |
Under the Eye of Kali or other mystery |
| January 11, 2011 |
Coelho, Paolo |
The Alchemist |
| February 8 |
Buck, Pearl |
The Good Earth |
| March 8 |
Lewis, Sinclair |
The Jungle available through interlibary loan. |
| April 12 |
Winchester, Simon |
The Professor and the Madman |
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2009 Book Selections |
| January 13 |
O'Connor, Flannery |
Collected Works |
| February 10 |
Waugh, Evelyn |
Brideshead Revisited |
| March 910 |
Trevor, William |
Felicia's Journey |
| April 14 |
Gardam, Jane |
Old Filth |
| May 12 |
McKibben, Bill |
Deep Economy |
| June 9 |
Mortenson, Greg |
Three Cups of Tea |
| July 14 |
Pettersen, Per |
Out Stealing Horses |
| August 11 |
Larson, Erik |
The Devil in the White City: murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America |
| September 8 |
Conrad, Joseph |
Heart of Darkness |
| October 13 |
Wroblewski, David |
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle |
| November 10 |
Russo, Richard |
Bridge of Sighs |
| December 8 |
Fadiman, Anne |
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down |
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2008 Book Selections |
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January 8 |
Desai, Kiran |
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February 12 |
Kidder, Tracy |
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March 11 |
Erdrich, Louise |
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April 8 |
Picoult, Jodi |
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May 13 |
Krauss, Nicole |
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June 10 |
Alcott, Louisa May |
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July 8 |
Brooks, Geraldine |
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August 12 |
Glass, Julia |
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September 9 |
Halberstam, David |
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October 14 |
Eire, Carlos M. N. |
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| November 18 |
Livesey, Margot |
Criminals |
| November 18 |
Livesey, Margot |
Banishing Verona |
| December 18 |
Gruen, Sara |
Water for Elephants |
ARCHIVAL LIST
2002 Book Selections |
February 7 |
Livesey, Margot |
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March 12 |
Shields ,Carol |
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April 9 |
Proulx, Annie |
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May 7 |
Gordimer, Nadine |
The House Gun * |
June 11 |
Dubus, Andre |
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July 9 |
Gilbert, Elizabeth |
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August 13 |
Trollope, Joanna |
Other People's Children * |
September 10 |
Barrett, Andrea |
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October 8 |
Stegner, Wallace Earle |
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November 12 |
Murdoch, Iris |
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December 10 |
Tyler, Anne |
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2003 Book Selections |
January 14 |
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February 11 |
Franzen, Jonathan |
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March 11 |
Oates, Joyce Carol |
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April 8 |
Banks, Russell |
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May 13 |
MacDonald, Michael P. |
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June 9 |
Welty, Eudora |
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July 8 |
Hillenbrand, Laura |
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August 12 |
Miller, Sue |
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September 9 |
O'Faolain, Nuala |
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October 14 |
Boyle, T. Coraghessan |
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November 11 |
Russo, Richard |
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December 9 |
Erdrich, Louise |
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2004 Book Selections |
January 13 |
Martel, Yann |
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February 10 |
Marai, Sandor |
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March 9 |
Phillips, Arthur |
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April 13 |
Caldwell, Bo |
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May 11 |
McEwan, Ian |
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June 8 |
McCullough, David G. |
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July 13 |
Dai, Sajie |
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August 10 |
Barker, Pat |
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September 14 |
Kingsolver, Barbara |
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October 12 |
Haruf, Kent |
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November 9 |
Balakian, Peter |
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December 14 |
Dorris, Michael |
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2005 Book Selections |
January 11 |
Wharton, Edith |
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February 8 |
Hegi, Ursula |
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March 15 |
Kidd, Sue Monk |
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April 12 |
Silko, Leslie |
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May 17 |
Eugenides, Jeffrey |
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June 14 |
Steinbeck, John |
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July 12 |
Nafisi, Azar |
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August 9 |
Haddon, Mark |
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September 13 |
Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
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October 11 |
McMurtry, Larry |
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November 8 |
Nabokov, Vladimir |
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December 13 |
Robinson, Marilynne |
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2006 Book Selections |
January 10 |
Twain, Mark |
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February 14 |
Albright, Madeleine |
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March 14 |
Faulkner, William |
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April 11 |
Carver, Raymond |
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May 9 |
Melville, Herman |
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June 13 |
Yates, Richard |
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July 11 |
Dickens, Charles |
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August 8 |
Shakespeare, William |
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September 12 |
Hosseini, Khaled |
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October 10 |
Cather, Willa |
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November 14 |
King, Stephen |
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December 12 |
L'Engle, Madeleine |
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2007 Book Selections |
January 10 |
Tolstoy, Leo |
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February 14 |
Tolstoy, Leo |
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March 14 |
Garland, Joseph E. |
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April 10 |
Jones, Edward P. |
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May 8 |
Lahiri, Jhumpa |
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June 12 |
McCullers, Carson |
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July 10 |
Tyler, Anne |
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August 14 |
Chekhov, Anton |
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September 11 |
Hambly, Barbara |
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October 9 |
Patchett, Ann |
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November 9 |
James, P. D. |
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Rendell, Ruth |
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December 11 |
Edwards, Kim |
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