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PageTurners Book Discussion Groups
All book discussion groups welcome new participants! Just read the
book and join the conversation. Local participants choose the books to be
discussed for the year. For more information, please contact your local
library. PageTurners Kits contain multiple copies of a book.
Some kits also contain book reviews, author information, talking books and large
print editions. Contact your local library to
check out a Book Discussion Kit for your group. |
Book Lists and Meeting Schedules
Aberdeen - Amanda Park -
Centralia - Chehalis -
Elma - Hoodsport - Hoquiam - Lacey - McCleary -
Montesano - Mountain View (Randle) -
Naselle - North Mason
(Belfair) - Oakville - Ocean Park - Olympia - Raymond -
Salkum - Shelton - Tenino
- Tumwater - Westport -
Winlock - Yelm
ABERDEEN PAGETURNERS (WEDNESDAY GROUP)
2nd Wednesday / month - 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
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1/14/2009 |
The Great Influenza: the Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History |
John M. Barry |
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2/11/2009 |
The New Yorkers |
Cathleen Schine |
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3/11/2009 |
Royal Spyness |
Rhys Bowen |
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4/8/2009 |
Main Street |
Sinclair Lewis |
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5/13/2009 |
The Knitting Circle |
Ann Hood |
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6/10/2009 |
Join other community members in selecting titles for the next series of PageTurners book discussions. |
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ABERDEEN PAGETURNERS (SATURDAY GROUP)
3rd Saturday / month - 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
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1/17/2009 |
Everything That Rises Must Converge |
Flannery O'Connor |
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2/21/2009 |
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court |
Jeffrey Toobin |
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3/21/2009 |
March |
Geraldine Brooks |
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4/18/2009 |
Sense and Sensibility |
Jane Austen |
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5/16/2009 |
Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln |
Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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6/20/2009 |
Join other members of the community in selecting titles for the next series of PageTurners book discussions. |
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ABERDEEN RAINY DAY READING REVIEWS
Friday Morning (January and February only) / 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Rainy Day Reading Reviews is sponsored by the Friends of the Aberdeen Library.
A reviewer talks about the selected title, then discussion follows.
| No book discussions are currently scheduled. |
AMANDA PARK PAGETURNERS
4th Thursday / month - 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
| No book discussions are currently scheduled. |
CENTRALIA PAGETURNERS
2nd Monday / month - 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
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1/12/2009 |
The Glass Castle: A Memoir |
Jeannette Walls |
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2/9/2009 |
The Professor and the Madman |
Simon Winchester |
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3/9/2009 |
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel |
Jim Fergus |
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4/13/2009 |
Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette |
Sena Jeter Naslund |
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5/11/2009 |
The Bonesetter’s Daughter |
Amy Tan |
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6/8/2009 |
Selection of titles for next season. |
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7/13/2009 |
Water for Elephants |
Sara Gruen |
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8/10/2009 |
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything across Italy, India and Indonesia |
Elizabeth Gilbert |
CHEHALIS PAGETURNERS
1st Thursday / month - 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.
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1/8/2009 |
Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History |
Kati Marton |
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2/5/2009 |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
Lisa See |
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3/5/2009 |
Water for Elephants |
Sara Gruen |
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4/2/2009 |
Three Cups of Tea: ne Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations -- One School at a Time |
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin |
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5/7/2009 |
The Knitting Circle |
Ann Hood |
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6/4/2009 |
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl |
Timothy Egan |
ELMA PAGETURNERS
3rd Tuesday / month - 7 - 8:30 p.m.
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1/20/2009 |
The Dante Club |
Matthew Pearl |
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2/17/2009 |
Eat, Pray, Love : One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia |
Elizabeth Gilbert |
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3/17/2009 |
Assassination Vacation |
Sarah Vowell |
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4/21/2009 |
The Time Travelers Wife |
Audrey Niffenegger |
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5/19/2009 |
The Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America |
Erik Larson |
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6/16/2009 |
Pick titles for next year's PageTurners. |
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HOODSPORT PAGETURNERS
1st Tuesday / month - 1:00 p.m.
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2/3/2009 |
The Broken Shore |
Peter Temple |
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3/3/2009 |
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Zora Neale Hurston |
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4/7/2009 |
Emma |
Jane Austen |
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5/5/2009 |
Runaway: Stories |
Alice Munro |
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6/2/2009 |
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations -- One School at a Time |
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin |
HOQUIAM PAGETURNERS
1st Tuesday / month - 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
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2/3/2009 |
True History of the Kelly Gang |
Peter Carey |
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3/3/2009 |
The Worst Hard Time: the Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl |
Timothy Egan |
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4/7/2009 |
The Piano Tuner |
Daniel Mason |
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5/5/2009 |
The Zookeeper's Wife |
Diane Ackerman |
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6/2/2009 |
Help choose books for the next series of book discussions. New participants are always encouraged to join in. |
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LACEY PAGETURNERS
3rd Tuesday / month - 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
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1/20/2009 |
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Zora Neale Hurston |
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2/17/2009 |
The Whistling Season |
Ivan Doig |
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3/17/2009 |
A Tale of Two Cities |
Charles Dickens |
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4/21/2009 |
The Birth of Venus |
Sarah Dunant |
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5/19/2009 |
Shelf Life and/or Sundays in America |
Suzanne Strempek Shea |
LACEY PAGETURNERS @ THE FIRS
Location: The Firs, 426 Lilly Rd.
NE, Olympia.
2nd Tuesday / month - 10:00 - 11:30 a.m
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1/13/2009 |
Saturday |
Ian McEwan |
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2/10/2009 |
The Thirteenth Tale |
Diane Setterfield |
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3/10/2009 |
The Known World |
Edward P. Jones |
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4/14/2009 |
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography |
Sidney Poitier |
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5/12/2009 |
Thirteen Moons |
Charles Frazier |
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6/9/2009 |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
Khaled Hosseini |
LACEY SENIOR PAGETURNERS
Location: Lacey Senior Center, 6757 Pacific Ave. SE, Lacey
3rd Wednesday / month - 9:30 - 11:00 a.m
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1/21/2009 |
Suite Française |
Irène Némirovsky |
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2/18/2009 |
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography |
Sidney Poitier |
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3/18/2009 |
Pride and Prejudice |
Jane Austen |
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4/15/2009 |
The Whistling Season |
Ivan Doig |
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5/20/2009 |
Garden Spells |
Sarah Addison Allen |
McCLEARY PAGETURNERS
3rd Thursday / month - 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
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1/15/2009 |
Digging to America: A Novel |
Anne Tyler |
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2/19/2009 |
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West |
Gregory Maguire |
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3/19/2009 |
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia |
Elizabeth Gilbert |
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4/16/2009 |
The Knitting Circle |
Ann Hood |
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5/21/2009 |
A Girl Named Zippy: Growing up Small in Mooreland, Indiana |
Haven Kimmel |
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6/18/2009 |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
Khaled Hosseini |
MONTESANO PAGETURNERS
4th Thursday / month - 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
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1/22/2009 |
Broken for You |
Stephanie Kallos |
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2/26/2009 |
Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette |
Sena Jeter Naslund |
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3/26/2009 |
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse |
Louise Erdrich |
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4/23/2009 |
Pope Joan: A Novel |
Donna Woolfolk Cross |
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5/28/2009 |
Water for Elephants: A Novel |
Sara Gruen |
MOUNTAIN VIEW (RANDLE) PAGETURNERS
2nd Tuesday / month - 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
| No book discussions are currently scheduled. |
NASELLE PAGETURNERS
1st Saturday / month - 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
| No book discussions are currently scheduled. |
NORTH MASON PAGETURNERS
3rd Thursday / month - 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
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1/15/2009 |
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations -- One School at a Time |
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin |
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2/19/2009 |
Shadow Divers |
Robert Kurson |
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3/19/2009 |
Dirty Girls Social Club |
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez |
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4/16/2009 |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
Lisa See |
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5/21/2009 |
Grapes of Wrath |
John Steinbeck |
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6/18/2009 |
The Birth of Venus |
Sarah Dunant |
OAKVILLE PAGETURNERS
2nd Thursday / month - 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
| No book discussions are currently scheduled. |
OCEAN PARK PAGETURNERS
1st Tuesday / month - 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
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2/3/2009 |
Main Street |
Sinclair Lewis |
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3/3/2009 |
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay |
Michael Chabon |
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4/7/2009 |
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel |
Jim Fergus |
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5/5/2009 |
Ten Little Indians: Stories |
Sherman Alexie |
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6/2/2009 |
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water |
Michael Dorris |
OLYMPIA PAGETURNERS
3rd Friday / month - 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
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1/16/2009 |
Looking Like The Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese-American Internment Camps |
Mary Matsuda Gruenewald |
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2/20/2009 |
Out Stealing Horses |
Per Petterson |
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3/20/2009 |
Infidel |
Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
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4/17/2009 |
The White Tiger |
Aravind Adiga |
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5/15/2009 |
An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England: A Novel |
Brock Clarke |
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6/19/2009 |
Select books for next year |
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OLYMPIA SENIOR PAGETURNERS
Location: Olympia
Senior Center, 222 Columbia St. NW Olympia.
3rd Tuesday / month - 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (2nd Tuesday starting in 2009)
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1/13/2009 |
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union |
Michael Chabon |
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2/10/2009 |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
Betty Smith |
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3/10/2009 |
Suite Française |
Irène Némirovsky |
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4/14/2009 |
The Good Rain |
Timothy Egan |
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5/12/2009 |
Assassination Vacation |
Sarah Vowell |
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6/9/2009 |
The Whistling Season |
Ivan Doig |
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7/14/2009 |
Cold Sassy Tree |
Olive Ann Burns |
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8/11/2009 |
Broken for You |
Stephanie Kallos |
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9/8/2009 |
Join in a discussion of book selections for 2010 |
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10/13/2009 |
Corelli’s Mandolin |
Louis de Bernières |
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11/10/2009 |
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
Junot Diaz |
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12/8/2009 |
The World Is Flat |
Thomas L. Friedman |
RAYMOND PAGETURNERS
2nd Thursday / month - 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
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1/8/2009 |
Mayflower: a Story of Courage, Community, and War |
Nathaniel Philbrick |
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2/12/2009 |
Escape |
Carolyn Jessop |
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3/12/2009 |
Nineteen Minutes |
Jodi Picoult |
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4/9/2009 |
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia |
Elizabeth Gilbert |
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5/14/2009 |
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II |
Robert Kurson |
SALKUM PAGETURNERS
2nd Wednesday / month - 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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1/14/2009 |
The Worst Hard Time |
Timothy Egan |
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2/11/2009 |
October Sky |
Homer Hickam |
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3/11/2009 |
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle |
Barbara Kingsolver |
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4/8/2009 |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
Khaled Hosseini |
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5/13/2009 |
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations -- One School at a Time |
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin |
SHELTON PAGETURNERS
Normally the first Thursday / month - 6:30 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.
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1/8/2009 |
Runaway |
Alice Munro |
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2/5/2009 |
The Soul Thief |
Charles Baxter |
TENINO PAGETURNERS
3rd Wednesday / month - 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
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1/21/2009 |
A Thousand Splendid Suns |
Khaled Hosseini |
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2/18/2009 |
Comfort Food |
Kate Jacobs |
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3/18/2009 |
A Clearing in the Wild |
Jane Kirkpatrick |
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4/15/2009 |
Thirteenth Tale |
Diane Setterfield |
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5/20/2009 |
Corelli's Mandolin |
Louis de Bernières |
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6/17/2009 |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan |
Lisa See |
TUMWATER PAGETURNERS
1st Wednesday / month - 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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2/4/2009 |
Pride and Prejudice |
Jane Austen. |
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3/4/2009 |
The Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier |
Ishmael Beah |
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4/1/2009 |
Glass Castle: a Memoir |
Jeannette Walls |
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5/6/2009 |
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Zora Neale Hurston |
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6/3/2009 |
Title to be announced. |
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WESTPORT MORNING READERS GROUP
3rd Friday / month - 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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1/16/2009 |
The Sun Also Rises |
Ernest Hemingway |
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2/20/2009 |
Founding Mothers: the Women Who Raised Our Nation |
Cokie Roberts |
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3/20/2009 |
Water for Elephants |
Sara Gruen |
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4/17/2009 |
Silent Spring |
Rachel Carson |
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5/15/2009 |
Mysteries of the Middle Ages: the Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe |
Thomas Cahill |
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6/19/2009 |
Help select the titles for the 2009-2010 book discussions. Date, time and location to be determined. |
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WESTPORT EVENING READERS GROUP
2nd Wednesday / month - 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
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1/14/2009 |
The Amateur Marriage |
Anne Tyler |
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2/11/2009 |
Dancing at the Rascal Fair |
Ivan Doig |
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3/11/2009 |
Thousand Pieces of Gold: a biographical novel |
Ruthanne Lum McCunn |
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4/8/2009 |
The Children of Men |
P.D.James |
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5/13/2009 |
The Beekeeper's Apprentice: On the Segregation of the Queen |
Laurie King |
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6/10/2009 |
Three Junes |
Julia Glass |
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7/8/2009 |
The Twenty-one Balloons |
William Pene Du Bois |
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8/12/2009 |
Ten Little Indians: Stories |
Sherman Alexie |
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9/9/2009 |
Select books for 2010. Location of meeting to be announced. |
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10/14/2009 |
Assissination Vacation |
Sarah Vowell |
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11/11/2009 |
The Fountainhead |
Ayn Ran |
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12/9/2009 |
A Holiday gathering. Location to be announced. |
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WINLOCK PAGETURNERS
1st Friday / month - 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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1/9/2009 |
Born on a Blue Day : the Gift of an Extraordinary Mind |
Daniel Tammet |
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2/6/2009 |
The Time Traveler's Wife : a Novel |
Audrey Niffenegger |
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4/3/2009 |
Broken for You |
Stephanie Kallos |
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5/1/2009 |
Broken Shore |
Peter Temple |
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6/5/2009 |
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier |
Ishmael Beah |
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7/10/2009 |
The Knitting Circle |
Ann Hood |
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8/7/2009 |
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography |
Sidney Poitier |
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9/4/2009 |
The Glass Castle: A Memoir |
Jeannette Walls |
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10/2/2009 |
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations -- One School at a Time |
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin |
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11/6/2009 |
Their Eyes were Watching God |
Zora Neale Hurston |
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12/4/2009 |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: a Novel |
Lisa See |
YELM PAGETURNERS
2nd Tuesday / month - 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
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1/13/2009 |
The Knitting Circle |
Ann Hood |
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2/10/2009 |
The Lovely Bones |
Alice Sebold |
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3/10/2009 |
The Grapes of Wrath |
John Steinbeck |
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4/14/2009 |
Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk across Victorian America |
Linda Hunt |
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5/12/2009 |
A Clearing in the Wild |
Jane Kirkpatrick |
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6/9/2009 |
Saturday |
Ian McEwan |
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