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NOTE: VIRTUAL MEETINGS DO REQUIRE REGISTRATION IN ORDER TO RECEIVE ZOOM LINK
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Read the book and come for a lively discussion. Copies, provided by The Friends of BTL, are available at the Adult Circulation desk one month prior to the meeting. New members are always welcome!
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Daytime Book Discussion - 3rd Wednesday of the month: 10:00 - 11:00am
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Wednesday, January 15 @ 10:00 am The best-selling author of The Lost City of Z presents a true account of the early 20th-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history..
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Wednesday, February 19 @ 10:00 am Ready Player One by Ernest ClineImmersing himself in a technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty, and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator.
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Wednesday, March 18 @ 10:00 am New and Selected Stories by Raymond CarverSpans twenty-five years of the author's writing career with both earlier works and original stories that explore betrayal, madness, and other reaches of human experience, in tales including "Intimacy" and "Boxes".
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VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING Wednesday, April 15 @ 10:00 am In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, a young girl and her family were exiled from city living in Saigon to the countryside of Vietnam and ultimately escaped to a small town in Texas. Part travelogue, part family drama, this quietly affecting immigrant memoir will make you laugh, cry, and hungry all at the same time.
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VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING Wednesday, May 20 @ 10:00 am The Mountains Sing : a novel by Phan Quáð¿ Mai NguyáYears after a family is forced by Vietnam’s Communist Land Reforms to abandon their farm, a granddaughter comes of age as her loved ones depart for the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING Wednesday, June 17 @ 10:00 am CLICK HERE TO REGISTERBanned for 27 years and initially published in a heavily censored edition, The Master and Margarita is probably the most important Russian novel of the 20th century. Written as a satire of Stalin's suffocating bureaucracy, the book has inspired Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, The Rolling Stones' song Sympathy for the Devil and the work of many other international artists, writers and musicians.
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VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING Wednesday, July 15 @ 10:00 am CLICK HERE TO REGISTERDecades after a 1929 Dominican immigrant writer passes away believing her final manuscript was destroyed, a Chicago lawyer discovers the book and endeavors to learn the woman’s remarkable story against the backdrop of Hurricane Katrina.
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VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING Wednesday, August 19 @ 10:00 am CLICK HERE TO REGISTERDreaming of an exotic life in Paris while coming of age in a St. Thomas refugee community, young Rachel is forced to marry a widower before falling scandalously in love and becoming the mother of Impressionist master Camille Pissarro. By the best-selling author of Here on Earth.
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Wednesday, September 16 @ 10:00 am Educated : A Memoir by Tara WestoverTraces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn an acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
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Wednesday, October 21 @ 10:00 am
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Wednesday, November 18 @ 10:00 am The Orchardist by Amanda CoplinWhen two feral girls--one of which is very pregnant--appear on his homestead, solitary orchardist Talmadge, who carefully tends the grove of fruit trees he has cultivated for nearly half a century, vows to save and protect them while trying to reconcile the ghosts of his own troubled past.
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Wednesday, December 16 @ 10:00 am Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanA socially awkward, routine-oriented loner teams up with a bumbling IT guy from her office to assist an elderly accident victim, forging a friendship that saves all three from lives of isolation and secret unhappiness.
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Evening Book Discussion - 1st Tuesday of the month: 7:30 - 9:00pm
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Tuesday, January 7 @ 7:30 am A Room with a Viewby E. M. ForsterThe love of a young British woman named Lucy Honeychurch for a British expatriate living in Italy is condemned by her stuffy, middle-class guardians, who prefer an eligible man of their own choosing.
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Tuesday, February 4 @ 7:30 pm (Chapters 1 - 12) by Walter Isaacson
A narrative portrait based on the complete body of Einstein's papers offers insight into how the iconic thinker's mind worked as well as his contributions to science, in an account that describes his two marriages, his receipt of the Nobel Prize, and the influence of his discoveries on his personal views about morality, politics, and tolerance.
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Tuesday, March 3 @ 7:30 pm Einstein : His Life and Universeby Walter IsaacsonA narrative portrait based on the complete body of Einstein's papers offers insight into how the iconic thinker's mind worked as well as his contributions to science, in an account that describes his two marriages, his receipt of the Nobel Prize, and the influence of his discoveries on his personal views about morality, politics, and tolerance.
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Tuesday, April 7 @ 7:30 pm Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fineby Gail HoneymanA socially awkward, routine-oriented loner teams up with a bumbling IT guy from her office to assist an elderly accident victim, forging a friendship that saves all three from lives of isolation and secret unhappiness.
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VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING Tuesday, May 5 @ 7:30 pm The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappearedby Jonas JonassonConfined to a nursing home and about to turn 100, Allan Karlsson, who has a larger-than-life back story as an explosives expert, climbs out of the window in his slippers and embarks on an unforgettable adventure involving thugs, a murderous elephant and a very friendly hot dog stand operator.
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VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING Tuesday, June 2 @ 7:30 pm There Thereby Tommy OrangeA novel—which grapples with the complex history of Native Americans; with an inheritance of profound spirituality; and with a plague of addiction, abuse and suicide—follows 12 characters, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow.
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VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING Tuesday, July 7 @ 7:30 pm CLICK HERE TO REGISTERA narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet.
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VIRTUAL ZOOM MEETING Tuesday, August 4 @ 7:30 pm CLICK HERE TO REGISTERDocuments the notorious abduction and murder of I.R.A. Troubles victim Jean McConville in 1972 Belfast, exploring how the case reflected the brutal conflicts of Northern Ireland and their ongoing repercussions.
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Tuesday, September 1 @ 7:30 pm New and Selected Storiesby Raymond CarverSpans twenty-five years of the author's writing career with both earlier works and original stories that explore betrayal, madness, and other reaches of human experience, in tales including "Intimacy" and "Boxes".
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Tuesday, October 6 @ 7:30 pm Ready Player Oneby Ernest ClineImmersing himself in a technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty, and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator.
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Tuesday, November 3 @ 7:30 pm Crossing to Safety : a novelby Wallace StegnerLong considered one of the finest works from the acclaimed author of Angle of Repose, this brilliant novel offers an evocative and insightful portrait of family and friendship.
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Tuesday, December 1 @ 7:30 pm The Bluest Eye : a novelby Toni MorrisonThe first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author relates the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old Black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes, and the tragedy that results because of her longing to be accepted.
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