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KYL Book Clubs Summer 2016
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The library hosts two book clubs for adults each month. - The Evening Book Club meets on the 3rd Monday of the month at 6:30pm.
- The Noon Book Club meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 12:00.
- Both groups are always open to new members.
- Books are available at the Checkout Desk.
- Feel free to join the discussion even if you don't finish the book!
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The Martian : a novel
by Andy Weir
Monday, June 20 at 6:30pm
Stranded on Mars by a dust storm that compromised his space suit and forced his crew to leave him behind, astronaut Watney struggles to survive in spite of minimal supplies and harsh environmental challenges that test his ingenuity in unique ways. A first novel.
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Lila
by Marilynne Robinson
Tuesday, June 28 at 12:00pm
Triggering a romance and debate by seeking shelter in a church and becoming a minister's wife, homeless Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband's gentle Christian worldview. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead. Includes reading-group guide.
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The Rosie project
by Graeme C Simsion
Monday, July 18 at 6:30pm
A socially awkward genetics professor who has never been on a second date sets out to find the perfect wife, but instead finds Rosie Jarman, a fiercely independent barmaid who is on a quest to find her biological father. Reprint.
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The invention of wings
by Sue Monk Kidd
Tuesday, July 26 at 12:00pm
Traces more than three decades in the lives of a wealthy Charleston debutante who longs to break free from the strictures of her household and pursue a meaningful life; and the urban slave, Handful, who is placed in her charge as a child before finding courage and a sense of self. By the best-selling author of The Secret Life of Bees.
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Some luck
by Jane Smiley
Monday, August 15 at 6:30pm
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres follows the triumphs and tragedies of a farm family from post-World War I America through the early 1950s. Reading group guide. 75,000 first printing.
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Blind Faith
by Janet Clark
Tuesday, August 23 at 12:00pm
Blind Faith is the story of the Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal as seen through the eyes of young Jack O'Donnell and his family in the late 60s and early 70s, and the pain, heartache, and challenge to their faith which they endured because of one priest's abuse and the systematic cover-up engaged in by church hierarchy.
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Kendall Young Library 1201 Willson Ave Webster City, Iowa 50595 |
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