Book discussion

Time Out Book Club: American Born Chinese

Location: Madison Public Library
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2013 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm

 

Time Out Book Club: The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Location: Madison Public Library
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm

In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her.

Time Out Book Club: Catching Fire

Location: Madison Public Library
Date: Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry.

Time Out Book Club: Daughter of the Forest

Location: Madison Public Library
Date: Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Lovely Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum of Sevenwaters. Bereft of a mother, she is comforted by her six brothers who love and protect her. Sorcha is the light in their lives, they are determined that she know only contentment.

Time Out Book Club: Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian

Location: Madison Public Library
Date: Thursday, August 8, 2013 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Time Out Book Club: Unwind

Location: Madison Public Library
Date: Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm

In America after the Second Civil War, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement: The Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched from the moment of conception until a child reaches the age of thirteen.

Literature Out Loud!: Sense and Sensibility

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Monday, May 6, 2013 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Join us for a slide show of artworks created in 1811, a cup of tea or two, and a lively discussion of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility".

Two sisters, one practical and conventional and the other emotional and sentimental, find that only through compromise of their mutual differences can they get along.

Literature Out Loud!: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Monday, April 1, 2013 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Join us for a slide show of artworks created in 1865, a cup of tea or two, and a lively discussion of Louis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".

Russell Readers Book Discussion Community Read 2013-- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Location: Bessie K. Russell Branch Library
Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 11:00am - 12:30pm

Wednesday, April 10th Coffee, Tea or Murder:

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 11 a.m.

 

Enjoy an informal discussion with the Russell Readers (R&R) Book Club!   We’ll talk about The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes while  enjoying samples of some

Sherlock-themed teas.

YABC: Graffiti Moon

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Told in alternating voices, an all-night adventure featuring Lucy, who is determined to find an elusive graffiti artist named Shadow, and Ed, the last person Lucy wants to spend time with, except for the fact that he may know how to find Shadow.

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