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Reader's Night Out (NIC)
Monday, October 2, 7:00 pm
Quigley's Irish Pub
Socialize 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. *Program requires advance registration.
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Out of This World Book Club (NIC)
Wednesday, October 4, 7:00 pm
NaperLaunch
"Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman Richard Mayhew's life is forever changed after he rescues a young girl named Door and finds himself living in a city of monsters, saints, murderers, and angels, and he must help Door on her mission to save this strange underworld kingdom from destruction. The author-preferred edition, published in 2016, reconciles inconsistencies between the U.S. and U.K. versions, reinstates previously cut scenes, and incorporates the Neverwhere tale "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back."
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Read Aloud Book Club (95th)
Thursday, October 5, 10:00 am
Lookout Room
Reading aloud is a long-standing social tradition. Historically, families often read together as a form of entertainment, and factory workers had books read to them as a way to relieve the tedium. Naperville Public Library is reaching out in that tradition with its Read Aloud Book Club for adults who wish to enjoy and explore the written word in this historical format. The book club is open to all adult readers, especially those who are learning English. Short stories will be read at a pace determined by the group.
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Criminal Spines Book Club (NBL)
Thursday, October 12, 7:00 pm
Program Room
"Mycroft Holmes" by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Since his college days, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been a Holmesian. Now, the the help of Anna Waterhouse, Abdul-Jabbar adds to Holmesian canon. In 1870, Mycroft, Sherlock's older, smarter brother, is rising fast in the British War Office. When news of a series of Trinidad murders apparently committed by supernatural creatures called douen and lougarou reaches London, Mycroft and his confidant Cyrus Douglas head to the islands. Mixing Trinidadian culture and folklore, accurate historical details, imperial economics, and "modern" inventions, the writers have crafted an engrossing story. The fast-paced plot and action scenes are also sure to entertain. In high praise for any debut novel, Booklist called the team of Mycroft and Douglas "a gaslit version of Robert B. Parker's Spenser and Hawk".
Join us for a viewing of the movie about Mycroft's brother, Sherlock Holmes, staring Robert Downey, Jr., on October 11, 2017.
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Readers Rendezvous Daytime Book Club (NIC)
Tuesday, October 17, 11:00 am
Program Room
"Chicago, City on the Make" by Nelson Algren
Heralded as America's most quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much as any city in the nation. And, yet, few historians have attempted big-picture narratives of the city's transformation over the twentieth century. Chicago on the Make traces the evolution of the city's politics, culture, and economy as it grew from an unruly tangle of rail yards, slaughterhouses, factories, tenement houses, and fiercely defended ethnic neighborhoods into a truly global urban center. Reinterpreting the familiar narrative that Chicago's autocratic machine politics shaped its institutions and public life, Andrew J. Diamond demonstrates how the grassroots politics of race crippled progressive forces and enabled an alliance of downtown business interests to promote a neoliberal agenda that created the stark inequalities that ravage the city today. Chicago on the Make takes the story into the twenty-first century, chronicling Chicago's deeply entrenched social and urban problems as the city ascended to the national stage during the Obama years.
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Great Books Reading and Discussion Group (NBL)
Tuesday, October 17, 7:00 pm
LL Conf. Room
"Individual Freedom" by Simmel
The readings are from The Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, First Series, Volume 2. The book will be available on a first-come, first-served basis at Naper Blvd. and Nichols Library. Books can be purchased by visiting the Great Books Foundation website or try abebooks.com.
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Read Around the World Book Club (95th)
Wednesday, October 25, 10:30 am
Lookout Room
"Nora Webster" by Colm Toibin
Struggling with grief and financial hardships after the death of her beloved husband, widow Nora Webster struggles to support her four children and clings to secrecy in the intrusive community of her childhood before finding her voice.
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