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Reader's Night Out
Monday, February 1, 7:00 pm
Virtual Event
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Socialize with other readers virtually and share recent reads and favorite titles. This discussion will be held virtually via Zoom.
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Out of This World Book Club
Wednesday, February 3, 7:00 pm
Event Location
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"The Light Brigade" by Kameron Hurley The Light Brigade: it's what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back...different. Grunts in the corporate corps get busted down into light to travel to and from interplanetary battlefronts. Everyone is changed by what the corps must do in order to break them down into light. Those who survive learn to stick to the mission brief--no matter what actually happens during combat.
Dietz, a fresh recruit in the infantry, begins to experience combat drops that don't sync up with the platoon's. And Dietz's bad drops tell a story of the war that's not at all what the corporate brass want the soldiers to think it is.
Is Dietz really experiencing the war differently, or is it combat madness? Trying to untangle memory from mission brief and survive with sanity intact, Dietz is ready to become a hero--or maybe a villain; in war it's hard to tell the difference.
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Great Decisions Discussion Group
Thursday, February 4, 12, 18, and 25, 7:15 pm to 8:45 pm
Virtual Event
Sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association, Great Decisions is a national program that reviews eight current foreign policy issues of vital importance to the United States. Each topic provides historical background, examines the subject impartially, explores options facing citizens and policymakers, and debates the implications. Due to AAUW policies regarding COVID19, the group will meet via Zoom. The discussion group is free but a book is required to fully participate in the discussion. It can be ordered at FPA.org either as an electronic version or a paperback. For more information and to register contact Becky Glimco at beckyglimco@aol.com or 630-881-4948.
https://napervillepl.librarycalendar.com/events/great-decisions-discussion-group
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On Cinema at Home: Film Discussion Group
Wednesday, February 10, 7:00 pm
Virtual Event
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Discover and discuss remarkable and enriching films. All films selected are available for checkout from the library or to stream on Kanopy or Hoopla platforms.
"Ex Machina (2014)" A young programmer is selected to participate in a breakthrough experiment in artificial intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breathtaking female A.I. Directed by Alex Garland and staring Alicia Vikander, Domhall Gleeson, and Oscar Isaac.
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Criminal Spines
Thursday, February 11, 7:00 pm
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"The Clutter Corpse" by Simon Brett Ellen Curtis runs her own business helping people who are running out of space. As a declutterer, she is used to encountering all sorts of weird and wonderful objects in the course of her work. What she has never before encountered is a dead body.
When Ellen stumbles across the body of a young woman in an over-cluttered flat, suspicion immediately falls on the deceased homeowner's son, who has recently absconded from prison. No doubt Nate Ogden is guilty of many things – but is he really the killer? Discovering a link between the victim and her own past, Ellen sets out to uncover the truth. But where has her best friend disappeared to? And is Ellen really prepared for the shocking revelations to follow?
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On the Table: A Culinary Book Club
Monday, February 15, 1:00 pm
Virtual Event
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Open to all home cooks who enjoy reading and talking about food. Each month will feature a different culinary theme. Choose any cookbook from the library, make a recipe at home that fits the theme, and then share your recipe, thoughts and experience with fellow cooks. Additional information will be provided upon registration. This month's theme is chocolate!
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Readers' Rendezvous Daytime Book Club
Tuesday, February 16, 11:00 am
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"The Lost Girls of Paris" by Pam Jenoff 1946, Manhattan One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs&;each of a different woman. In a moment of impulse, Grace takes the photographs and quickly leaves the station.
Grace soon learns that the suitcase belonged to a woman named Eleanor Trigg, leader of a network of female secret agents who were deployed out of London during the war. Twelve of these women were sent to Occupied Europe as couriers and radio operators to aid the resistance, but they never returned home, their fates a mystery. Setting out to learn the truth behind the women in the photographs, Grace finds herself drawn to a young mother turned agent named Marie, whose daring mission overseas reveals a remarkable story of friendship, valor and betrayal.
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Great Books Reading & Discussion Group
Tuesday, February 16, 7:00 pm
Virtual Event Please email Lkenzal1@msn.com for more information.
"The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Leo Tolstoy, referenced from the Great Books Reading and Discussion Program, Third Series, Volume 2 Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?
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Readers' Choice Book Club
Wednesday, February 17, 10:30 am
Virtual Event
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"The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead Cora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him.
In Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day.
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