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Out Of This World Book Club (NIC)
Wednesday, September 4, 7:00 pm
Program Room
"The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms" by N.K. Jemisin
After her mother's mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed.
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history.
With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate - and gods and mortals - are bound inseparably together.
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Readers' Night Out Monday, September 9, 7:00 pm Quigley's Irish Pub, 43 E. Jefferson AveSocialize with other readers at Quigley's Irish Pub in downtown Naperville and share recent reads and favorite titles. Arrive at 6:15 p.m. to purchase dinner or join the group at 7 p.m. for the discussion only.
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Read Aloud Book Club (95th)
Thursday, September 12, 10:00 am
Lookout Room
Short stories will be read at a pace determined by the group.Reading aloud is a long-standing social tradition. This club is for those who wish to enjoy and explore the written word in this historical format. Short stories will be read at a pace determined by the group. Open to all adult readers, especially those who are learning English.
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Criminal Spines Book Club (NBL)
Thursday, September 12, 7:00 pm
Program Room
"Deja Dead" by Kathy Reichs
In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern—and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her investigation is about to place those closest to her—her best friend and her own daughter—in mortal danger.
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Readers' Rendezvous Daytime Book Club (NIC)
Tuesday, September 17, 11:00 am
Program Room
"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal passion and external convention, gives us the unforgettable Hester Prynne, who discovers strength in the face of ostracism and emerges as a heroine ahead of her time. As Kathryn Harrison points out in her Introduction, Hester is 'the herald of the modern American heroine, a mother of such strength and stature that she towers over her progeny much as she does the citizens of Salem.
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Great Books Discussion Group (NBL)
Tuesday, September 17, 7:00 pm
Conference Room
"Habits and Will" by John Dewey from "The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, Third Series, Volume 1."
This insightful treatise on the essential components of human nature by the great American philosopher and educator John Dewey grew from a series of three lectures presented at Leland Stanford Junior University upon the West Memorial Foundation. One of the topics included was Human Conduct and Destiny. In his own words, Dewey has, set forth a belief that an understanding of habit and different types of habit is the key to social psychology, while the operation of impulse and intelligence gives the key to individualized mental activity. Some eighty years after its original publication, Dewey’s common sense based direct approach, rooted in experience and objective observation, still has much to recommend it to students of ethics, psychology, and sociology.
For more information contact Les Pierce at les.pierce2484@yahoo.com.
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Readers' Choice Book Club (95th)
Wednesday, September 18, 10:30 am
Lookout Room
"Manhattan Beach" by Jennifer Egan
Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men.
Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life, the reasons he might have vanished.
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