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Book Club 2011-2012

Titles to Discuss:
December 14:	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
January 11:	The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
February 8:	Joan of Arc by Mary Gordon
March 14:	People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
April 11:	To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
May 9:	Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
June 13:	Dracula by Bram Stoker

We meet on the second Wednesday of the month at 1 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. Feel free to attend either group--or both!

Call the Information Desk at 978-345-9635 if you are interested in joining, and if you need to borrow a copy of the books from the library.

Here are some of the books we've already discussed (not necessarily in the same sessions!):

• The Help by Kathryn Stockett, Loving Frank by Nancy Horan, Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, and Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicolas Kristoff.
  
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden, Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston, The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx, Alias, Grace by Margaret Atwood, The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, and Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safron Foer.
  
• The Good Earth by Buck, The Return of the Native by Hardy, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, War and Peace by Tolstoy, and The Age of Innocence by Wharton
• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson and Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
  
• Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing, The Johnstown Flood and 1776 by McCullough, Waiting for Snow in Havana by Eire, and Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business--and Bad Medicine by Donald L. Bartlett
  
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter, and The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, her American Doctors, and the Collision of two Cultures by Ann Fadiman
  
• Carry on Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse and The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith, and Centenniel by Michener
  
• The works of Ray Bradbury and Jane Austen
  
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy, My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, and The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• Sarum by Edward Rutherford and Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
• The Elm at the Edge of the Earth by Robert D. Hale and An Imaginative Experience by Mary Wesley
  
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling and The Hobbit by Tolkien
  
• Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian LeBlanc, Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean, and Blue Highways: a Journey into America by William Least Heat-Moon
  

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