Book Groups Listed by Date/Title
What's better than reading a good book? Talking about it with someone else! Join us for any of our book discussion groups featuring a wide variety of popular fiction and non-fiction. New Members are always welcome! Call the libraries listed for more information.
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November 2008
Nov. 4:
Nov 5:
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Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier @ Foster, 7 pm
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Once Upon A Day by Lisa Tucker by Mary Doria Russell @ Haslett, 7 pm
Nov. 6:
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On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan @ Okemos, 10 am
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe @ Foster, 1 pm
Nov. 7:
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Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen @ Haslett, 9 am
Nov. 8:
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Stealing Buddha’s Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen @ Downtown Lansing, 10 am
Nov. 10:
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The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny @ Okemos, 7 pm
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Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke @ Haslett, 7 pm
Nov. 12:
Nov. 18:
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson @ Mason, 2 pm
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Beach House by Jane Green @ Aurelius, 3 pm
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Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian @ Dansville, 6:30 pm
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Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime by J. California Cooper @ Downtown Lansing, 6:30 pm
Nov. 19:
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Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama @ South Lansing, 6:30 pm
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Stormy Weather by Paulette Jiles @ Holt, 6:30 pm
Nov. 20:
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What is the What by Dave Eggers @ Okemos, Noon
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The Stupidest Angel: A Heart Warming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore @ South Lansing, 6:45 pm
Nov. 21:
nov. 24
- Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson @ the Meridian Senior Center, Haslett, 11 am
Nov. 25:
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Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldemann @ Downtown Lansing, 6:30 pm
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Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion @ South Lansing, 6:30 pm
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The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig @ Williamston, 7 pm
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith @ Webberville, 7 pm
December 2008
Dec. 2:
- Everything Bad is Good For You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter by Stephen Johnson @ Holt, 1 pm
Dec. 3:
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Finding Noel by Richard Paul Evans @ Foster, 7 pm
Dec. 4:
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations – One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson @ Okemos, 10 am
- The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig @ Foster, 1 pm
Dec. 5:
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When Madeline Was Young by Jane Hamilton @ Haslett, 9 am
Dec. 8:
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Winter Study by Nevada Barr @ Okemos, 7 pm
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The Penguin Who Knew Too Much by Donna Andrews @ Haslett, 7 pm
Dec. 9:
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Joy by Victoria Christopher Murray @ Downtown Lansing, 6:30 pm
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Death’s Door by Steve Lehto @ South Lansing, 6:30 pm
Dec. 10:
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The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans @ Leslie, 1 pm
Dec 15:
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Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich @ South Lansing, 6:30 pm
Dec. 16:
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Any of the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter by Susan Wittig Albert @ Dansville, 6:30 pm
Dec. 17:
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In The Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming @ Holt, 6:30 pm
Dec. 18:
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Truck: A Love Story by Michael Perry @ Okemos, Noon
Dec. 23:
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Christmas Wishes by Debbie Macomber @ Webberville, 7 pm
Dec. 30:
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Artemis Fowl @ Downtown Lansing, 6:30 pm
January 2009
Jan 2:
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My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman @ Haslett, 9 am
Jan 6:
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The Monster of Florence by Douglas J. Preston @ Holt, 1 pm
Jan 12:
Jan. 13:
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Casting the First Stone by Kimberla Lawson Roby @ Downtown Lansing, 6:30 pm
Jan. 14:
Jan. 20:
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They poured fire on us from the sky : the true story of three lost boys from Sudan by Deng Alephonsion @ Aurelius, 3 pm
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon @ Downtown Lansing, 6:30 pm
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith @ Dansville, 6:30 pm
Jan 21:
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Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen @ Holt, 6:30
Jan. 22:
Jan. 26:
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East of Eden by John Steinbeck @ the Meridian Senior Center, Haslett, 11 am
Jan. 27:
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The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch @ South Lansing, 6:30 pm
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Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan @ Webberville, 7 pm
Jan. 30:
- Benjamin Franklin by Edmund S. Morgan @ Stockbridge, Noon
