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An 'extra credit' book discussion, pre-order John Green's next book, and our non-fiction book group meets this week.
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John Green's latest book, Turtles All the Way Down will be released on October 10th!
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Turtles All the Way Down
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Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. In his long-awaited return, John Green, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, shares Aza's story with shattering, unflinching clarity in this brilliant novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship.
Make sure you're the first to get a copy by pre-ordering now: [email protected]
"Extra Credit" book discussion?
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Anna Karenina
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We did NOT pick Anna Karenina as our Fiction book for next month, but a couple of us were discussing that we'd like to either read or re-read this classic. I've not read it since high school (this is Joy).
So, we're going to read it and get together in early November (time and date TBD; I'll let you know in a future e-mail). Grab a copy and start reading Anna Karenina. You know you want to!
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Our Book clubs are fun and friendly!
Read the book, bring either a pupu or beverage, and enjoy a lively discussion.
Our Non-fiction group: In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
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In the Kingdom of Ice
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On July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San Francisco on the USS Jeanette. Heading deep into uncharted Arctic waters, they carried the aspirations of a young country burning to be the first nation to reach the North Pole. Two years into the harrowing voyage, the Jeannette's hull was breached by an impassable stretch of pack ice, forcing the crew to abandon ship amid torrents of rushing of water. Hours later, the ship had sunk below the surface, marooning the men a thousand miles north of Siberia, where they faced a terrifying march with minimal supplies across the endless ice pack.
We will discuss this spellbinding tale of heroism and determination in the most brutal place on Earth on Tuesday, August 22 @ 6pm.
Our Fiction group: Bark: Stories by Lorrie Moore
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Bark
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What they're saying about this book of short stories:
"Uncanny. . . . Moving. . . . A powerful collection".
The Washington Post.
"Moore's one of the country's most admired writers. . . . [Bark] shows off a true advance of Moore's powers and offers some first-rate reading pleasure".
NPR.
"100% brilliant, as usual. . . . Moore has come to enjoy the unusual distinction of being just about the darkest light writer around. Unhappiness, heartbreak, illness, grief, disappointment--who'd have thought they could be so much fun?" --Geoff Dyer, The Observer
"[Bark is] a book to which people will refer back to understand life as we lived it in the past ten years".
Salon.
We will discuss these short stories on Tuesday, September 12 @ 6:30pm.
Our Travel Group: Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka by John Gimlette
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Elephant Complex
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No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. In Elephant Complex, he ventures into Sri Lanka, a country only now emerging from twenty-six years of civil war. Beginning in the exuberant capital, Colombo, Gimlette ventures out in all directions. In the course of his journey, he meets farmers, war heroes, cricketers, terrorists, a former president, survivors of great massacres--and perhaps some of their perpetrators. That's to say nothing of the island's beguiling fauna: elephants, crocodiles, snakes, storks, and the greatest concentration of leopards on Earth. We will resume our reading and discuss this exotic local on
Tuesday, October 17 @ 6pm.
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Hours:
Monday-Friday: 10am-6pm;
Saturday: 10am-5pm;
Sunday: 11am-5pm
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