Book Discussion Groups

The library offers two book discussion groups each month. The two groups do not replicate discussions.

2012 Tuesday Night Book Discussion Group

The last Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. in the Library's meeting room.
Contact Marci Retzlaff if you have questions
(Titles subject to change due to availability)

• January 31 – Freedom by Jonathan Franzen  
• February 28—Little Bee by Chris Cleave
• March 27 – One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
• April 24 – Searching for Caleb by Anne Tyler
• May 29 – Please Look after Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
• June 26 – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• July 31 – State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
• August 28 – I Am a Man by Joe Starita (One Book, One Nebraska)
• September25 – The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
• October 30 – Sashenka by Simon Sebag Montefiore
• November 27 – Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
• January  8?,2013  Meet at Prenger’s to select 2013 reading list
• January  29, 2013 – The Greater Journey:  Americans in Paris by David McCullough  

Alternates:  The Glassblower of Mulano by Marina Florato; The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht; Sex on the Moon:  the Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History by Ben Mezrich

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." -- Alvin Toffler

2012 Wednesday Morning Book Discussion Group

The last Wednesday of the month at 10:00 a.m., also in the Library's meeting room.
Contact Marci Retzlaff if you have questions?
(Titles subject to change due to availability)

• January  25 - Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin
• February  29 - The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
• March 28 - Portrait of a Chair: a novel by Marie Krohn
• April 25 - Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
• May  30 -  The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart
• June 27 - Cleo, the Cat Who Mended a Family by Helen Brown
• July 25 - Sex on the Moon:  the Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History by Ben Mezrich
• August 29 - Rin Tin Tin: the Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean
• September 26 - “I Am a Man”: Chief Standing Bear’s Journey for Justice by Joe Starita
• October 31 – The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by  Laurie King
• November 28 - Ellen and Edith:  Woodrow Wilson’s First Ladies by Kristie Miller
• December  12  - A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg

Alternates:  Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani ; Crossing the Heart of Africa by Julian Smith; Cleopatra: a Life by Stacy Schiff

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." -- Mark Twain

2011 - 2012 Young Adult Book Discussion Group

Y.A.B.G. (Young Adult Book Group) meets one Saturday each month at 2:30 in the library meeting room.  Y.A.B.G. is for any teenagers who love to read and talk about books.  Refreshments are served. Contact Marci Retzlaff with any questions.

• August 6  - The Alchemyst by Michael Scott
• October 10 – Killer Pizza by Greg Taylor 
• November 12 – The Last Thing I Remember by Andrew Klavan 
• December 10 – The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry  
• January 7 – The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien  
• February 4 – A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• March 3 – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
• April 4 – Ship Breaker by Paolio Bacigalupi  
• May 12 – The Compound by S. A. Bodeen