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Home » Services » Library Book Clubs & More » Adult Book Club

Upcoming Discussions

When She Woke by Hillary Jordan (Literary Sojourn Author Study Series)

Wednesday, June 6, 2012 - 5:30pm
Conference Room - Administration Wing

When She Woke. is a powerful re-imagining of The Scarlet Letter set in modern times. The New York Times calls it is a “feverishly conceived dystopia (that) holds its own alongside the dark inventions of Margaret Atwood and Ray Bradbury.” S.F. Weekly calls it “a galvanizing fit of a novel, a paranoid fever of Hawthorne, Atwood, and your favorite fundamentalist . . .

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Kathryn Harrison's Exposure (Literary Sojourn Author Study Series)

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 5:30pm
Conference Room - Administration Wing

“A breathless urban nightmare not easy to forget. Stark, brilliant, and original work.”
–Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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Tom Perrota's Abstinence Teacher (Literary Sojourn Author Study Series)

Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - 5:30pm
Conference Room - Administration Wing

Thanks to an off-hand remark made during a class discussion of oral sex, sex-ed teacher Ruth Ramsey finds herself a target of the Christian evangelicals who are increasingly influencing the schoolboard of suburban Stonewood Heights. Forced to attend remedial sessions with a smug “Virginity Consultant,” Ruth is isolated and alone, caught in the polarized red-versus-blue landscape of present-day American suburbia.

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Laura Lippman's I'd Know You Anywhere (Literary Sojourn Author Study Series)

Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - 5:30pm
Conference Room - Administration Wing

Eliza Benedict cherishes her peaceful, ordinary suburban life with her successful husband and children, thirteen-year-old Iso and eight-year-old Albie. But her tranquility is shattered when she receives a letter from the last person she ever expects—or wants—to hear from: Walter Bowman.
"There was your photo, in a magazine. Of course, you are older now. Still, I'd know you anywhere."

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Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City (Literary Sojourn Author Study Series)

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 5:30pm
Conference Room - Administration Wing

Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called Martyr & Pesty. Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancée, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters.

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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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