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2012-2013 Selections | 2011-2012 Selections | 2010-2011 Selections | 2009-2010 Selections | 2008-2009 Selections | Continuous Book Exchange | Book Group Links
About the Book Discussion Group
The Book Discussion Group members choose books from different genres and read a selection every 4-6 weeks. Members take turns leading the discussion. Group discussion provides for a diversity of perspectives, making the discussion group a lively and rewarding experience.
Current Selection:
The Happiness Project,
or Why I spent a year trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, fight right,
read Aristotle and generally have more fun,
by Gretchen Rubin
Tuesday, June 25 at noon in the library workroom - C2058.
All are welcome!
You may borrow a copy to read through
OhioLINK
Or purchase your own copy via Amazon (click on the book image):
2012-2013 Selections
Date |
Title and Author |
Discussion Leader |
| 7/17/12 | Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes | Linda Glasser |
| 9/18/12 | The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems
by Marilyn Nelson
| Gloria Lane |
| 10/24/12 | The Paris Wife: A Novel
by Paula McLain
| Linda Glasser |
| 12/12/12 | Burnt Shadows
by Kamila Shamsie | Merry Ring |
| 1/29/13 | The Tiger's Wife: A Novel
by Tea Obreht | Cori Tatulinski |
| 2/20/13 | A Mercy
by Toni Morrison
| Linda Glasser |
| 3/19/13 | Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts
by Stacy Cordery | Ellen Strand |
| 4/24/13 | The Swerve: How the World became Modern
(plus 15mins planning session for next year) | Merry Ring |
| 5/21/13 | Pearl of China: A Novel
by Anchee Min | Gloria Lane |
Date changed from 6/19
to 6/25/13 | The Happiness Project, Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing...
by Gretchen Rubin | Ellen Strand |
2011-2012 Selections
Date |
Title and Author |
Discussion Leader |
| 7/19/11 | My Reading Life
by Pat Conroy | Ellen Strand |
| 9/21/11 | Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
| Linda Glasser |
| 10/25/11 | The Senator's Wife
by Sue Miller
| Cori Tatulinski |
| 12/14/11 | Winter Garden
by Kristin Hannah | Gloria Lane |
| 1/24/12 | Sarah's Key
by Tatiana DeRosney | Gloria Lane |
| 2/21/12 | Beneath a Marble Sky
by John Shors
| TBA |
| 3/21/12 | The Help
by Kathryn Stockett | Linda Glasser |
| 4/24/12 | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
(plus 15mins planning session for next year) | Ellen Strand |
| 5/23/12 | The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfeld | Cori Tatulinski |
| 6/19/12 | Shanghai Girls
by Lisa See | TBA |
2010-2011 Selections
Date |
Title and Author |
Discussion Leader |
| 7/20/10 | Remarkable Creatures
by Tracy Chevalier | Ellen Strand |
| 9/21/10 | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows | Linda Glasser |
| 10/26/10 | Born Under a Million Shadows
by Andrea Busfield | Gloria Lane |
| 12/15/10 | A Reliable Wife
by Robert Goolrick | Gloria Lane |
| 1/26/11 | Still Alice
by Lisa Genova | Linda Glasser |
| 2/22/11 | Somewhere in Heaven: The Remarkable Love Story of Christopher and Dana Reeve
by Christopher Andersen | Ellen Strand |
| 3/23/11 | Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
by Elissa Wall and Lisa Pulitzer | Gloria Lane |
| 4/26/11 | Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett (plus 15mins planning session for next year) | Cori Tatulinski |
| 5/25/11 | The Pact: A Love Story
by Jodi Picoult | Gerrie Sellers |
| 6/21/11 | Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn | Cori Tatulinski |
2009-2010 Selections
Date |
Title and Author |
Discussion Leader |
| 7/22/09 | It Takes a Village Idiot by Jim Mullen | Ellen Strand |
| 9/23/09 | Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? by Charlise Lyles | Cori Tatulinski |
| 10/27/09 | The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama | Gloria Lane |
| 12/9/09 | Ghost Map by Steven Johnson | Kate Kendall |
| 1/27/10 | American Wife by Curtis Stittenfeld | Ellen Strand |
| 2/23/10 | The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow | Cindy Rozzo |
| 3/24/10 | Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson | Gloria Lane |
| 4/27/10 | Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (plus 15mins planning session for next year) | Linda Glasser |
| 5/26/10 | Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama | Linda Glasser |
| 6/22/10 | Tears of the Desert by Halima Bashir | Cori Tatulinski |
2008-2009 Selections
Date |
Title and Author |
Discussion Leader |
| 7/30/08 | Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen | Nora Snyder |
| 9/24/08 | A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini | Cori Tatulinski |
| 10/28/08 | Riding Rockets: the Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut by Mike Mullane | Ellen Strand |
| 12/3/08 | Hidden in Plain View: a Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad by J. Tobin & R. Dobard | Judy Schmidt |
| 1/28/09 | Whiskey Island by Emilie Richards | Judy Schmidt |
| 2/24/09 | Dear Senator: a Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond by Essie Mae Washington-Williams | Cindy Rozzo |
| 3/25/09 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean Dominique Bauby | Marilyn Jones |
| 4/28/09 | People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (plus 15mins planning session for next year) | Linda Glasser |
| 5/27/09 | The Glass Castle: a Memoir by Jeanette Walls | Ellen Strand |
| 6/23/09 | Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks | TBA |
Continuous Book Exchange
Swap books all year round at the library's Continuous Book Exchange. Located in the Library Offices C-2056, open M-F from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm., bring a book and take a book! Phone (440) 525-7067 for more information.
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