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Beautiful Ruins (Literary Sojourn Author Study Series)
Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 5:30pm
Conference Room - Administration Wing

In 1962, Pasquale Tursi, inheritor-proprietor of the Hotel Adequate View in Porto Vergogna, Italy, a tiny coastal village visited only by tourists who overshoot the similarly named neighbor they intended to go to, is shocked when beautiful, sickly American starlet Dee Moray arrives, on purpose. The reason for her presence, the botched cover-up of a minor disaster that occurred, in all places, on the set of the epically doomed Cleopatra, becomes but the first of the novel's many disasters.

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The Room (Literary Sojourn Author Study Series)
Thursday, July 18, 2013 - 5:30pm
Conference Room - Administration Wing

Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.

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Townie (Literary Sojourn Author Study Series)
Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 5:30pm
Conference Room - Administration Wing

After their parents divorce in the 1970's, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime. To protect himself and those he loved from street violence, Andre learned to use his fists so well that he was even scared of himself. He was on a fast track to getting killed, or killing someone else, or to beatings-for-pay as a boxer. Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a college campus and took the kids out on Sundays.

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The Cove (Literary Sojourn Author Study Series)
Thursday, September 19, 2013 - 5:30pm
Conference Room - Administration Wing

Living deep within a cove in the Appalachians of North Carolina during World War I, Laurel Shelton finally finds the happiness she deserves in Walter, a mysterious stranger who's mute, but their love can't protect them from a devastating secret.

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Running with Scissors (Literary Sojourn Author Study Series)
Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 5:30pm
Conference Room - Administration Wing

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a few patients, and a pedophile living in the backyard shed completed the tableau. Here, there were no rules, there was no school. The Christmas tree stayed up until summer,and Valium was eaten like Pez.

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About the Adult Book Club

This book group usually meets once a month and is facilitated by Bud Werner Library's Circulation Services Manager, Michelle Dover. The group is...

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Adult Book Club Registration Form

Sign up at the circulation desk, call 879-0240, or register by filling out the form below. The group is open to anyone interested in participating, but is limited to 12 participants per meeting.

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