Book selections are subject to change. Please contact the leaders with questions. Thanks!
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Readers' Night Out Socialize with other readers a and share recent reads and favorite titles. Monday, May 4, 7 p.m. Monday, June 1, 7 p.m. Please contact Christi Hawn (chawn@naperville-lib.org) and Illya Kabirov (ikabirov@naperville-lib.org) for details
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Read Aloud Book Club
by Book Author
Open to all adult readers, especially those who are learning English. Short stories will be read at a pace determined by the group. Please contact Illya Kabirov (ikabirov@naperville-lib.org) for details.
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Out of This World Book Club Mary Costello (mcostello@naperville-lib.org)
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Stories of your life and others
by Ted Chiang Wednesday, May 6, 7 p.m.
"Soon to be a major motion picture starring Amy Adams. Combining the precision and scientific curiosity of Kim Stanley Robinson with Lorrie Moore's cool, clear love of language and narrative intricacy, this award-winning collection offers readers the dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar. Stories of Your Life and Others presents characters who must confront sudden change--the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens--while striving to maintain some sense of normalcy. In the amazing and much-lauded title story, a grieving mother copes with divorce and the death of her daughter by drawing on her knowledge of alien languages and non-linear memory recollection. A clever pastiche of news reports and interviews chronicles a college's initiative to "turn off" the human ability to recognize beauty in "Liking What You See: A Documentary." With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty and constant change, and also by beauty and wonder"
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The city of lost fortunes
by Bryan Camp Wednesday, June 3, 7 p.m.
Maintaining a low profile in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, a street magician who inherited an ability to find lost things from his superhuman father, is drawn back into the world by the murder of a Fortune god to whom he owes a debt, an event that exposes a plot that threatens the city's soul.
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Readers' Rendezvous Shannon McGregor (smcgregor@naperville-lib.org)
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Once Upon a River
by Diane Setterfield Tuesday, May 12, 11 a.m.
After a mysterious stranger bearing a dead infant dies on the doorstep of an ancient inn on the river Thames—and that infant miraculously returns to life—the locals puzzle to discern where the child came from and what her apparent resurrection means.
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H is for hawk
by Helen Macdonald Tuesday, June 16, 11 a.m.
Recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery
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Readers' Choice Christy Palangattil (cpalangattil@naperville-lib.org)
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Carnegie's maid : a novel
by Marie Benedict Wednesday, May 20, 10:30 a.m.
An impoverished Irish immigrant in the industrial 1860s takes a job as a lady's maid in the home of prominent businessman Andrew Carnegie, with whom she falls in love before going missing, triggering Carnegie's search for answers and the establishment of his enduring legacy.
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The lowland : a novel
by Jhumpa Lahiri Wednesday, June 17, 10:30 a.m.
Born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other in the Calcutta neighborhood where they grow up. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead. It is the 1960s, and Udayan,charismatic and impulsive, finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty; he will give everything, risk all, for what he believes. Subhash, the dutiful son, does not share his brother's political passion; he leaves home to pursue a life of scientific research in a quiet, coastal corner of America. But when Subhash learns what happened to his brother in the lowland outside their family's home, he goes back to India, hoping to pick up the pieces of a shattered family, and to heal the wounds Udayan left behind -- including those seared in the heart of his brother's wife
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Criminal Spines Shoshana Frank (sfrank@naperville-lib.org)
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Maisie Dobbs : a novel
by Jacqueline Winspear Thursday, May 14, 7 p.m.
In her first case, private detective Maisie Dobbs must investigate the reappearance of a dead man who turns up at a cooperative farm called the Retreat that caters to men who are recovering their health after World War I.
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Need to know : a novel
by Karen Cleveland Thursday, June 11, 7 p.m.
A dedicated CIA counterintelligence analyst assigned to uncover the leaders of Russian sleeper cells in the United States stumbles on a secret dossier of deep-cover agents before facing an impossible choice that tests her loyalties to the agency and her own family.
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