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Book Club Schedule - 2013

Titles to Discuss:
May 8:	Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
June 12:	Destiny of the Republic: a Tale of Medicine, Madness and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
September 11:	11/22/63 by Stephen King
October 2:	Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Note: This is the First Wednesday of the Month!)
November 13:	Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
December 11:	The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

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 978-829-1780 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!):

• Finn by Jon Cleve; Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz; 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.
  
• 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, Killshotby Elmore Leonard, 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, Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen, 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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5.15.13