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The Thursday Night Readers
Meets the second Thursday of the month at 7:00 p.m.

The group focuses on reading across genres, featuring both contemporary and classic novels, histories and biographies.

Copies of the book selections are available for check out at the Library approximately one month before the discussion. 

What We Are Reading:

 

April 11, 2013

The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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In post-war World War II Spain, a boy is taken by his father to a sanctuary of rare books. Selecting The Shadow of the Wind, Daniel enjoys it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to find that someone is destroying every book the author has written.

   
 

May 9, 2013

A Lion Called Christian
by Anthony Bourke
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The true story of the lion cub who became a celebrity living in a London flat with his owners, was flown to Kenya and rehabilitated for life in the wild, and gained international attention with a reunion caught on YouTube.

   
 

June 13, 2013

The Art of Fielding
by Chad Harbach
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The star shortstop at a small Midwestern college makes an errant throw and, inadvertently, changes the lives of five people including the college president, president's daughter, and a gay teammate.

   
     
   

Join us for these future book discussions:

July 11, 2013The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
August 8, 2013City of Scoundrels by Gary Krist