Upcoming Book Discussion Events
April 22, 2019
Monday, April 22, 2019 - 6:00pm
Based on one of America’s most notorious real-life scandals--in which Georgia Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country--Lisa Wingate’s riveting, wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even... Read More
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Book Discussion
May 14, 2019
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 - 1:30pm
In 1974, a former Vietnam POW, suffering from flashbacks and nightmares, moves his family to Alaska to live off the grid in an attempt to find peace, restoration, and freedom. They will also face dangers, both internally and externally, as they face the ultimate test of the human spirit. (Hist.... Read More
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Book Discussion
May 30, 2019
Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 6:00pm
Using his old fantasy-life persona as a springboard, Bill Bryson recreates the life of his family in the 1950s in all its transcendent normality as he grew up in Des Moines, Iowa. (Nonfiction)
Books are available at the Reference Desk starting the month before the discussion.
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Book Discussion
June 11, 2019
Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - 1:30pm
For this discussion we will be meeting at Brigg's Garden place for lunch. Time to be determined.
Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and... Read More
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Book Discussion