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Book Discussions
Local Book Groups
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Getting Started
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Being Read
Get inspired by what other book groups are reading.
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an ongoing book lovers' appreciation society
a twenties and thirties book discussion group
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Library Book Discussions
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Great Books Book Discussion: The Use of Force by
William Carlos Williams and The Minister's Black Veil
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
7:30 p.m. Book Discussion Room, Second Floor, Main
Library 
The Great Books Book Discussion will meet the second Wednesday
of each month. Each discussion will focus on selections from The
Civically Engaged Reader and be led by a trained Great
Books moderator.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
The Stranger by Albert Camus
7:30 p.m. Maze Branch 
Camus, who won a Nobel Prize in 1957, was noted for his existential
esthetic. This is a disturbing story of a disaffected young
man who ends up killing a man.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Book Discussion Room, Second Floor, Main
Library
Kathy, now a young woman, grew up as a student at Hailsham,
an exclusive and picturesque boarding school in the English
countryside. Her friends Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life,
and together they explore the memories of their past—and
the dark and mysterious secrets of their "special"
purpose in life.
Copies of Never Let Me Go will be available at the Main
Library a month before the discussion.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Great Books Book Discussion: I Shall Not Beg For My Rights
by Henry MacNeal Turner and Selections in Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
7:30 p.m. Book Discussion Room, Second Floor, Main
Library
The Great Books Book Discussion will meet the second Wednesday
of each month. Each discussion will focus on selections from The
Civically Engaged Reader and be led by a trained Great
Books moderator.
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
Dialogue: An issues-based book discussion
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping by Judith
Levine
7:30 p.m. Small Meeting Room, Second Floor, Main
Library
Through personal reflection and an examination of consumerism
in America , the author chronicles a year spent without purchasing
anything remotely nonessential.
Copies of Not Buying It will be available at the Main
Library a month before the discussion.
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Book Discussion Room, Second Floor, Main
Library
As a mysterious gentleman and self-proclaimed magician arrives
in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre entourage, the Russian literary
world is shaken to its foundations. It soon becomes clear that
he is the Devil, and that he has come to wreak havoc among the
cultural elite of the disbelieving capital.
Copies of The Master and Margarita will be available
at the Main Library a month before
the discussion.
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Discussions at the Main Library
Main Library Book Discussions are open to all who are committed
to reading and talking about books.
Discussions at the Dole Branch Library
The Dole Branch Library occasionally hosts book discussions.
Contact the Dole Branch Library
at 708-386-9032 for information on upcoming dates and titles.
Discussions at the Maze Branch Library
The Maze Branch Library hosts monthly book discussions except
in August. The discussions are open to anyone with a love of
reading and a willingness to talk and listen. Discussions begin
at 7:30 p.m. and end at 8:45 p.m. Light refreshments will be
served.
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