TFPL Book Club

The TFPL Book Club is free and open to the public.

SECOND TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH

Choose a Session that fits your schedule:

9:30 – 11:00 AM

Noon – 1:30 PM

5:30 – 7:00 PM

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Here is our schedule for the Spring 2014:

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January 14 – The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

• Taking refuge in fairy tales after the loss of his mother, twelve-year-old David finds himself violently propelled into an imaginary land in which the boundaries of fantasy and reality are disturbingly melded.

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February 11 – Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

• In a collection of essays, observations, and commentaries, the humorist describes his recent move to Paris, life as an American in Paris, his struggle to learn French, his family, and restaurant meals.

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March 11 – The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

• A Chinese peasant overcomes the forces of nature and the frailties of human nature to become a wealthy landowner.

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April 8 – Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Poems About Food and Drink edited by Peter Washington

• All kinds of foods and beverages are laid out in these pages, along with picnics and banquets, intimate suppers and quiet dinners, noisy parties and public celebrations–in poems by Horace, Catullus, Hafiz, Rumi, Rilke, Moore, Nabokov, Updike, Mandelstam, Stevens, and many others. (From the publisher’s description.)

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Previous Book Club Choices

Previous Book Club Choices in PDF format: 2007-2009, 2010-2011

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Please contact Amy, Jennifer. or Jessica at 733-2964 ext 109 for more information.

(All annotations are courtesy of NoveList Plus,  part of the TFPL Databases, unless noted otherwise.)