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Sunday • 1pm-5pm

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No meeting in July or August

September 24, 2019 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

October 22, 2019A Sicilian Romance - Ann Radcliffe

November 26, 2019The Trojan Women - Euripides

December 17, 2019Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare

January 28, 2020The Luck of Barry Lyndon – William Makepeace Thackerary

February 25, 2020The Social Contract – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

March 24, 2020The Moon and Sixpence – W. Somerset Maugham

April 28, 2020Three Soldiers - John Dos Passos

May 26, 2020The Canterbury Tales, Wife of Bath, Knight’s Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer

June 23, 2020Passing - Nella Larsen

Great Books Group Titles

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Join a Group• Morning Book Group

10:30am on 3rd Monday of month

• Nonfiction Book Group 7:00pm on 1st Wednesday of month

• Great Books Group 7:30pm on 4th Tuesday of month

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Morning Book Group TitlesJuly 15, 2019The Soul of an Octopus - Sy Montgomery

August 19, 2019The One in a Million Boy - Monica Wood

September 16, 2019The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse: A Novel - Louise Erdrich

October 21, 2019The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

November 18, 2019

Sweetland - Michael Crummey

December 16, 2019The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

January 27, 2020The Secret Keeper - Kate Morton

February 24, 2020Drawdown: - edited by Paul Hawken

March 16, 2020Educated - Tara Westover

April 27, 2020The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy

May 18, 2020 The Color of Lightning - Paulette Jiles

June 15, 2020 - Book Selection meeting

Nonfiction Book Group TitlesJuly 10, 2019Fascism: A Warning - Madeleine Albright

August 7, 2019Unexampled Courage - Richard Gergel

September 4, 2019Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies - John Carreyrou

October 2, 2019The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves - Matt Ridley

November 6, 2019Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger - Rebecca Traister

December 4, 2019Reset: Iran, Turkey and America’s Future - Stephen Kinzer

January 8, 2020Strangers in Their Own Land - Arlie Russell Hochschild

February 5, 2020Atlantic - Simon Winchester

March 4, 2020The Coddling of the American Mind - Greg Lukianoff

April 1, 2020The Soul of America - Jon Meacham

May 6, 2020Becoming - Michelle Obama

June 3, 2020 Sea People - Christina Thompson

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Book Groups meet in the Activity Room, across from the Children’s Room on the Lower Level.